Finding waste is nothing new in the North Pacific gyre.

在北太平洋环地区发现并不是什么新鲜事。

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

环是指让被困后呈环形运动的大漩涡。

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

被聚集在被称为环的环形洋。

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

该系统对那些已经分解为微型颗粒的塑料收效甚微，但这类塑料仅占环的8%。

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

如今，各种各样的塑料散落在路边草地上，堵塞了河，在海洋形成巨大的漩涡。

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之，感觉在画静止不动 相安无事。

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

让瑞恩特别感兴趣的是，在被卷入环圈前，所有这些都是来自何处。

Plastic waste sits in places like the North Pacific gyre.

塑料堆积在北太平洋环等地方。

The discovery of ocean gyres will revolutionize seafaring.

海洋环的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的塑料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经过该环的20艘船只，该设备的存在。

This area is part of the North Pacific gyre.

这一区域是北太平洋环的一部分。

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

在过去，环的天然已经被生物降解。

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

太平洋环和其他环覆盖了地球表面约百分之二十五的面积。

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

过了一段时间，其大部分都会向北太平洋环这样的地区。

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

从那时起，查尔斯已经多次去北太平洋环。

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

- 现在波弗特环的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的普及导致了海洋塑料污染的急剧增加，这些污染 littering 海滩，并在洋心形成了巨大的带。 注：原文的 " littering" 在此处可理解为“散落”，但为了保持句子的畅性，可以省略这个词，直接表达污染散落在海滩上。因此，更自然的翻译是：塑料在我们日常生活的普及导致了海洋塑料污染的急剧增加，这些污染散落在海滩上，并在洋心形成了巨大的带。

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的影响，”阿迪森说。“我是喜欢把这些联系起来，理解事情的来龙去脉。”

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.

持续高压系统周围的风驱动洋， 形成一个称为环的涡，导致碎片聚集在心位置。