Great Barrier Reef

A minke whale swims near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.(一头小须鲸正在澳大利亚大堡礁附近游弋。)

Declining water quality is a major factor in the pollution of the Great Barrier Reef.(水质下降是在大堡礁污染的主要因素。)

Overall, the reserve is around 140, 000 square miles in size, larger than the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.(宏观看来，这个保护区大约有140，000平方英里，比澳大利亚的大堡礁还要大。)

The Coral Sea covers 780,000 square kilometers and borders the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's east coast.(珊瑚海涵盖780,000平方公里，毗邻澳大利亚东海岸的大堡礁。)

The Aussies are justifiably proud of the largest coral reef on earth - the Great Barrier reef.(澳大利亚最有理由自豪的地球上最大的珊瑚礁-大堡礁。)

In 2006, severe bleaching struck the southern part of Australia's Great Barrier reef, the largest coral reef system in the world.(2006年，严重的褪色现象袭击了澳大利亚大堡礁南部——世界上最大的珊瑚礁系统。)

This isn't scuba diving now off the Great Barrier Reef, or something like that.(这不是在大堡礁附近潜水，或者是类似的潜水的活动。)

The new project will involve a species of staghorn coral from the Great Barrier Reef, Acropora millepora.(这项新的计划将包含一种大堡礁的鹿角大珊瑚（Acroporamillepora）。)

A sponge from Australia's Great Barrier Reef was home to almost 3, 000 different types of bacteria.(而在澳大利亚大堡礁中的一种海绵，居然是将近3,000中不同细菌的寄主。)

At over 2000 kilometers long, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on earth.(大堡礁延绵2000公里以上，是地球上最大的生命结构体。)