A quarter of all sea species spend at least a part of their life in a reef and many reefs are in cold or temperate waters.

四分之一的海洋物种在珊瑚礁中度过了它们一生中至少一半的时间，而且很多珊瑚礁处于寒冷或温和的水中。

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This could influence the latter stages of the tournament, as both semi-finals will be played at sea level between a team that won its quarter final at altitude and a team that won at sea level.

这可能会影响联赛的后面阶段，因为在高海拔处的四分之一决赛取胜者会与海平面的四分之一决赛取胜者进行在海平面处举行的半决赛。

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In contrast to the city lights along the sea coast and interior, the Atlantic Ocean appears as a featureless dark region filling the lower right quarter of the image.

和海岸线和内陆附近的光亮的城市相比较，大西洋完全漆黑一片，并且占据图片区域的四分之一。

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Nicknamed the Little Red Schoolhouse and perched on dry land in the French Quarter, comfortably above sea level, the school now brims with energy, ambition and rising test scores among its 420 students, more than 90% of them from low-income African-American families.

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The first quarter of 2011 has seen piracy-at-sea hit an all time high with 142 attacks worldwide and 97 of the East coast of Somalia, up from 35 a year ago, a report by the IMB Piracy Reporting Center says.

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The big uncertainty in Talisman's third quarter results comes from the Yme platform in the Norwegian North Sea, which was evacuated in July for safety reasons.

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