Finding waste is nothing new in the North Pacific gyre.

在北太平洋环流地区发现垃并不是什么新鲜事。

A gyre is a big whirlpool that traps and moves the plastic in circles.

环流是指让垃被困后呈环形运动大漩涡。

The garbage is drawn together in circular ocean flows called gyres.

垃被聚集在被称为环流环形洋流。

The system can do little about plastic that has fragmented into microscopic particles, but these make up just 8% of plastic in the gyre.

该系统对那些已分解为微型颗粒塑料收效甚微，但这类塑料仅占环流垃8%。

These days plastic in one form or another is strewn on verges, clogs rivers and swirls around oceans in vast gyres.

如今，各种各样塑料散落在路边草地上，堵塞了河流，在海洋形成巨大漩涡。

If you're sitting becalmed in an ocean gyre, it feels like you're a painted ship on a painted ocean, nothing's happening.

如果你静静坐在海洋环流之，像身在画静止不动 相安无事。

Dr Ryan's particular interest was where all the litter came from before it was swept into the gyre.

让瑞恩特别兴趣是，在被卷入环流圈前，所有这些垃都是来自何处。

Plastic waste sits in places like the North Pacific gyre.

塑料垃堆积在北太平洋环流等地方。

The discovery of ocean gyres will revolutionize seafaring.

海洋环流发现将彻底改变海上航行。

" We want to know if other coastal marine life are on plastics in all of the five main ocean gyres worldwide, " Haram said.

“我们想知道世界上所有五个主要海洋环流塑料垃上是否都有其他沿海海洋生物。”

Light beacons will alert the two dozen ships which cross the gyre each week to its presence.

灯光信标将提醒每周过该环流20艘船只，该设备存在。

This area is part of the North Pacific gyre.

这一区域是北太平洋环流一部分。

In the past, natural wastes in the gyre have biodegraded.

在过去，环流天然垃已被生物降解。

This and other gyres cover about twenty-five percent of the earth's surface.

太平洋环流和其他环流覆盖了地球表面约百分之二十五面积。

After a time, much of it goes to areas like the North Pacific gyre.

过了一段时间，其大部分都会流向像北太平洋环流这样地区。

Since this time, Charles has visited the North Pacific gyre many times.

从那时起，查尔斯已多次去北太平洋环流。

Large parts of beaufort gyre now are ice-free in summer.

- 现在波弗特环流大部分地区在夏季都没有结冰。

The growth of plastics in our daily lives has led  to the dramatic rise in marine plastic pollution that can be found littering beaches and forming  gigantic garbage patches in the middle of ocean gyres.

塑料在我们日常生活普及导致了海洋塑料污染急剧增加，这些污染 littering 海滩，并在洋流心形成了巨大垃带。 注：原文 " littering" 在此处可理解为“散落”，但为了保持句子流畅性，可以省略这个词，直接表达污染散落在海滩上。因此，更自然翻译是：塑料在我们日常生活普及导致了海洋塑料污染急剧增加，这些污染散落在海滩上，并在洋流心形成了巨大垃带。

The gyre " could be having this really resounding impact on the ecosystem, " Addison says. " I just love taking those connections and understanding the how's and the why's."

涡旋“可能对生态系统产生深远影响，”阿迪森说。“我是喜欢把这些联系起来，理解事情来龙去脉。”

Winds around a persistent high pressure system drive ocean currents, creating a vortex, known as a gyre, causing debris to collect in a central location.

持续高压系统周围风驱动洋流， 形成一个称为环流涡流，导致碎片聚集在心位置。