Randall Schriver is a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
兰德尔·施奈弗是美国前任助理秘书代表，负责东亚和太平洋的事务。
Delta`s agreement with Singapore Airlines gave them a toehold in the Pacific.
德尔塔与新加坡航空公司的协议为他们在太平洋地区提供了一个立足点。
A chain of volcanoes girdles the Pacific.
环绕太平洋的是一连串的火山。
What if the fault that runs along the Pacific Northwest delivers a gigantic earthquake of its own?
如果沿着太平洋西北部的断层本身也引发了一场巨大的地震呢？
The natural history of the Hawaiian island chain clearly shows the movement of the Pacific plate over a fixed plume.
夏威夷岛链的自然历史清楚地显示了太平洋板块在一个固定的羽流上的运动。
My father was serving on a ship in the South Pacific in 1994.
1944这一年，我父亲在南太平洋的一艘军舰上服役。
It's called the Ring of Fire, a semicircle of violently shifting plates and volcanoes that runs along the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
这里被称为火圈带，一个由剧烈移动的板块和火山组成的半圆形区域，分布在太平洋沿岸。
France has promised to sign a global test-ban treaty after it completes its current series of nuclear tests in the Pacific.
法国承诺在完成其目前在太平洋进行的一系列核试验后签署一项全球禁试条约。
I'm going to talk today about research into a particular species of bird—the New Caledonian crow, whose natural habitat is small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
我今天要讲的是对一种特殊鸟类的研究——新喀里多尼亚乌鸦，它的自然栖息地是太平洋上的小岛。
The undisputed pre-Columbian presence in Oceania of the sweet potato, which is a New World domesticate, has sometimes been used to support Heyerdahl's "American Indians in the Pacific" theories.
在哥伦布发现美洲大陆之前，大洋洲无可争议地存在着一种在新大陆被驯化的红薯，它有时被用来支持Heyerdahl的“太平洋上的美洲印第安人”理论。
We will do so as a Pacific nation, with a President who was shaped in part by this piece of the globe.
我们将作为一个太平洋国家这样做，这个国家的总统曾经在某种程度上受到地球上这个地区的影响。
With a hiss of steam, lava flows into the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.
冒着嘶嘶作响的蒸汽，熔岩流入夏威夷火山国家公园的太平洋水域。
However they did it, the Lapita spread themselves a third of the way across the Pacific, then called it quits for reasons known only to them.
不管他们怎么做到这点，拉皮塔人穿越了太平洋的三分之一，分散居住在那里，并称其离开是出于一些只有他们才知道的原因。
He has spent up to a third of every year on the remote archipelago in the central South Pacific.
他每年有三分之一的时间都在这个位于南太平洋中部的偏远群岛上度过。
Last minute our diver was still swimming in the Pacific with flippers, and the next minute he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300 feet in the air.
前一分钟我们的潜水员还在太平洋里用脚蹼游水，下一分钟他就在300英尺高空的一个救火水桶里做蛙泳了。
In November 1677, Halley observed a transit of the innermost planet, Mercury, from the desolate island of St Helena in the South Pacific.
1677年11月，哈雷在南太平洋荒凉的圣赫勒拿岛上观测到了水星（最靠近太阳的行星）的凌日现象。
So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the additional energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.
太平洋面积非常大，覆盖了地球表面的30%，其海水升温产生的额外热量足以引发世界各地一系列的气候变化。
"A tsunami is a series of waves and the first wave may not be the largest," said a bulletin from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
太平洋海啸预警中心的公告称，“海啸是一系列的波浪，第一波并不一定是最大的。”
While previously the gap between the continents had allowed a free flow of water, now the isthmus presented a barrier that divided the Atlantic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean.
以前，大陆之间的鸿沟允许水自由流动；而现在地峡形成了一道屏障，把大西洋和太平洋分隔开来。
Because of the barrier of ice to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and populated areas to the north, there may have been a greater impetus for people to move in a southerly direction.
因为东面有冰的屏障，西面是太平洋，而且北面是人口稠密的地区，所以促使人们向南迁移的动力会更大。
He points out that climate data obtained from slow-growing corals around the Pacific indicate a series of unusually frequent El Ninos around the time of the Lapita expansion.
他指出，从环太平洋缓慢生长的珊瑚中获得的气候数据表明，在拉皮塔扩张时期，厄尔尼诺现象曾频繁爆发，这很不寻常。
Whereas, 27% of white kids are reading at a low level, and 22% of Asian-Pacific kids are reading at a low level.
然而，27%的白人孩子阅读能力很差，而22%亚太地区的孩子阅读能力很差。
Many scientists believe that El Nino events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
许多科学家认为，由于气候变化，太平洋变暖引起的厄尔尼诺现象正愈演愈烈。
As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.
结果，在太平洋上空形成的风暴将更多的水气输送到加利福尼亚州，而不是犹他州。
Last week, I attended a research workshop on an island in the South Pacific.
上周，我参加了南太平洋一个岛屿上的一个研讨会。
Detailed studies of the winds and currents using computer simulations suggest that drifting canoes would have been a most unlikely means of colonizing the Pacific.
通过计算机模拟得到的关于风向和洋流的详细研究结果表明，移民到太平洋区域最不可能的交通工具应该就是漂流的独木舟。
France has carried out the first of a planned series of nuclear tests in the south Pacific despite strong international opposition.
法国不顾国际社会的强烈反对，在南太平洋进行了一系列核试验计划中的第一次。
France has carried out the first of a planned series of nuclear tests in the south Pacific despite strong international opposition.
法国不顾国际社会的强烈反对，在南太平洋进行了一系列核试验计划中的第一次。
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