This tight-knit bond between algae and corals is what makes reefs so incredibly productive.

藻类和珊虫这种紧密联系，就是珊产力如此惊人原因所在。

Coral is actually the eco skeletons of coral polyps made of limestone.

珊实际上是由石灰岩构成珊虫态骨架。

The polyps that make up the stony corals are among the winners of climate change.

构成石珊珊虫是气候变化赢家一。

Over time, these polyps generate rock-like skeletons made of calcium carbonate.

逐渐地，这些珊虫长出形似石头，由碳酸钙成骨架。

Coral is made up of small colonial animals, with calcium carbonate skeletons.

珊是由小型珊虫及其碳酸钙骨骼聚集而成。

Again, what we're seeing here is blue light hitting this image.

我们这里所看到是，蓝色 光照在珊虫图像 。

They're a symbiotic duo, a partnership, between an algae and a coral.

珊是共体，是海藻和珊虫合作关系。

At the heart of reef ecosystems lies a symbiosis between corals and algae.

珊态系统核心是珊虫和藻类共关系。

It is textured to allow coral polyps to attach.

质地适合珊虫附着。

First, tiny creatures, just a few millimetres in length, called polyps.

第一种，是一种微小物，只有几毫米长称为珊虫。

On the surface of this sea fan, there are two polyps that are not polyps.

在这株海扇上，有2只珊虫不像珊虫。

We can actually look to coral as a great example of what an individual can achieve because the coral reef is made up of initially one tiny polyp that grows into a colony and then collects and reforms that reef.

实际上，我们可以把珊作为一个很好例子，来说明个人可以取得什么样成就，因为珊最初是由一个个小珊虫成，这些小珊虫长成一个珊群，然后聚集起来，形成珊。

It's coral polyps, and within that that coral structure that's kind of a hive or kind of the house for the coral polyps.

这是珊虫，在这个珊结构里面是珊虫蜂巢或房子。

The answer is starfish. The crown-of-thorns starfish preys on coral and large outbreaks of these starfish can devastate reefs.

正确答案是海星。棘冠星鱼会捕食珊虫，大量海星会摧毁珊。

Reefs are the hard skeletons left at the bottom of the sea by small marine creatures called polyps.

而石则是珊虫这种小型海洋物遗留在海底坚硬骨架。

A relative of both coral polyps and jellyfish, anemones have their own partner to help make life easier...clownfish.

相比于珊虫和水母而言，为了让存更加容易，海葵有它自己伙伴… … 小丑鱼。

Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.

皮普看见了无数上帝一般无所不在珊虫，从水天穹中升起巨大星体。

The polyps then form the larger structure of a reef.

这些珊虫后便形成了大型珊。

They do this so that they can eat the coral polyps and algae inside.

这样它们就能吃到珊虫和里面海藻了。

Polyps spend their lives filtering microscopic particles in the clear waters.

珊虫不停地过滤着清澈海水中细微粒子。