Those plants and animals that do survive usually reproduce very fast and in great numbers. The single-cell plant, the diatom, can multiply itself into a billion new diatoms in one month.

那些生存下来的植物和动物通常重新繁衍更快和更多的数量。单细胞植物，像，能月自己繁衍百万新的。

The diatomaceous silica in the litter could have clouded Dyson's senses.

猫砂里的土可能影响了戴森的嗅觉。

Mr. Bowler says almost half of the oxygen we breathe comes from very small algae called diatoms. These plants live in the part of the water where the sun reaches.

鲍勒说我们呼吸的近半的气来自名为的微小类，这些植物生活太阳能抵达的水中。

And starting around 3 million years ago, the oceans began to experience a serious drop in diatom diversity.

从大约300万年前开始，海洋开始经多样性的严重下降。

Some of the critters I found were delightful things like seed shrimp and many more beautiful, geometric diatoms. I then went farther afield to camp out in the Dry Valleys for a couple of weeks.

我发现的些小动物是令人愉快的东西， 例如种子虾和许多更美丽的几何。然后我去了更远的地方， 干谷露营了几星期。

Few objects are more beautiful than the minute siliceous cases of the diatomaceae: were these created that they might be examined and admired under the higher powers of the microscope?

很少有物体比科的微小质外壳更美丽：这些物体是为了更高倍数的显微镜下进行检查和欣赏而创造的吗？

Tiny fossilized skeletons of aquatic creatures called diatoms are swept into the wind and carried westward where they rain down on South America.

微小的水生生物的化石骨架被风吹起，并向西飘移，南美洲上空如雨般落下。