On the train out to meet Spencer, I had marvelled at the Pitsea horizon, a nonsensical Thames estuary hillside towering over the mudflats, a Brecon Beacon of waste.

在去见斯宾塞的火车，茨西亚的所见之景感到惊叹，它是一个荒谬的景象：泰晤士河河口的山坡高耸于泥滩之，仿佛是垃圾堆起来的布雷肯比肯斯山。

Mudskippers are not the only animals to take advantage of the mudflat buffet.

弹涂鱼并不是唯一利用滩涂享用自助餐的动物。

What you see when you glance at this environment are a bunch of what appear to be tunnels or mounds here, and these are made by the gases produced by the microbes living in this mudflat area.

观察这里你能发现什么？看起来是很多这样的沟壑与土堆却是由生活着的微生物排出的大量气体所造成，而这原本是整的土地。

The mudflats here have witnessed tens of millions of years of history and experienced countless tides rising and falling, forming a unique ecological landscape.

这里的滩涂历经了千万年时光的洗礼和无数次的潮起潮落形成了自己独特的原生态景观。

And at the other end are species like mudskippers that nonchalantly hop around mudflats for days at a time.

另一端则是像弹涂鱼这类物种，可以在淤泥滩里蛮不在乎地 弹跳数日都没关系。

And this is the lifecycle on the saltflat, all of which we call extremophiles, and which eke out an existence in a mudflat like this.

就是繁衍在这些贫瘠土地之中的生命们所称的这些嗜极生物很好的生存于这样的泥滩。

At dusk, the Fishermen of Xiapu County begin to spread the fishing nets on the mudflats.

傍晚时分霞浦县的小港湾里渔民将一张张渔网整的撒在滩涂。

The mudflats always present different features and unique local characteristics in the different seasons.

它一年四季的滩涂都会呈现出不同的风韵和别致的地域特色。

Grassy, tidal marshes that give way to miles of mudflats.

长满草的潮汐沼泽让位给绵延数英里的泥滩。

They settled on the mudflats of Chongming Island and Nanhui tidal flat near Shanghai.

他们选择在海附近的崇明岛和南汇潮滩的泥滩安家落户。

Will and Jeff watch from their camp as the tide goes out, leaving their shark, their meal, to slowly die on the mudflats.

威尔和杰夫在营地注视着潮水退去，任由他们的鲨鱼、他们的食物， 在泥滩缓缓死去。

It's kind of difficult to know what is coast and what is foreshore, what is mudflat and sandbank and reef.

要区分海岸与前滨、泥滩与沙洲、礁石，确实有些难度。

The meltwater deposits thousands of tons of nutrient-rich silt into the delta each year, building mudflats 600 feet deep.

融水每年将数千吨富含营养的淤泥沉积到三角洲中，形成 600 英尺深的泥滩。

She brings the same descriptive talent to bear on the adjacent marshes and mudflats Some aspects of these vistas.

她同样以出色的描写才能描绘了相邻的沼泽和泥滩的一些景色。

I lost the boat once, and then I was finding it difficult to get through the mudflats.

曾一度失去了划艇，随后又发现难以穿越泥滩。

The coves, mudflats, estuaries, and cliff-lined coastal waters all present dangers, under a far cry from the quiet waterways of southern England.

海湾、泥滩、河口以及峭壁环绕的海岸水域都潜藏着危险，与英格兰南部静的水道相去甚远。