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.

那些生存下来植和动通常重新繁衍更快和更多数量。单细胞植，像硅藻，能在一个月自己繁衍一百万新硅藻。

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

猫硅藻土可能影响了戴森嗅觉。

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.

鲍勒说我们呼吸近一半气来自名为硅藻微小藻类，这些植生活在太阳能抵达水中。

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，海洋开始经历硅藻多样性严重下降。

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.

我发现一些小动是令人愉快东西， 例如种子虾和许多更美丽几何硅藻。然后我去了更远地方， 在干谷露营了几个星期。

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?

很少有体比硅藻科微小硅质外壳更美丽：这些体是为了在更高倍数显微镜下进行检查和欣赏而创造吗？

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

微小水生生硅藻化石骨架被风吹，并向西飘移，在南美洲上空如雨般落下。