Ahead lay the vast emptiness of the central Pacific and perhaps they were too thinly stretched to venture farther.

前方是广袤无垠的太平洋中部，也许他们的战线拉得太窄，于是无法再向前延伸。

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A green turtle glides over a wasteland of dead coral near Kanton island in the central Pacific.

在中太平洋的坎顿岛附近，一只绿海龟滑过一片死珊瑚的不毛之地。

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Since November Queensland has been lashed by rains from la Nina, a phenomenon associated with a pattern of low temperatures in the central Pacific.

自11月以来昆士兰州就受到拉尼娜雨水的影响，拉尼娜是一种太平洋中部温度异常偏冷的现象。

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The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

By the eighteen sixties, the Central Pacific Railroad was hiring Chinese workers in huge numbers.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

It was both a labor problem and an immigration problem thousands of Chinese workers had been brought to America to help build the Central Pacific Railroad.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

President George W Bush has banned fishing in an area the size of Spain in US-controlled waters of the central Pacific.

BBC: Shortages: Fish on the slide

Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence.

CNN: Japan warms to 'fire ice' potential

Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, will chair the opening session and participate in the regional working group for the North and Central Pacific.

UNESCO: Ocean acidification impacts on fisheries and aquaculture economics and industries | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization