Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.
温迪，你看那些把蛋埋在沙子里的乌龟。
The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm.
海龟产卵的狭长海滩一边受到开发的挤压，另一边受到海平面上升的威胁，因为海洋变暖。
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
你看龙虾和海龟都游得多么急啊！
Time at sea may boost the turtles’ navigational ability.
长期的海上生活提高了海龟的航海能力。
That supports and benefits everyone, including the turtles.
这为每个人都带来好处，包括海龟。
They are constantly after the turtles.
它们经常追逐海龟。
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.
真遗憾，牡鹿无法教会乌龟快走。
And what of the turtles, dolphins and — dare I write it — the whales?
对于海龟，海豚，我敢说，还有鲸鱼，它们的情形又如何呢？
To the beetles, our life is very long; To the turtles, our life is very short.
相对甲虫我们的一生是漫长的；相对海龟，我们的一生是短暂的。
So if you were a fan of the turtles before, you will be again after this movie.
所以，如果你曾经是神龟迷，你将再次因这部电影而为神龟们疯狂。
As the turtles went tumbling, Otis dusted himself off and said, I meant to do that.
乌龟们还在翻着跟头，奥蒂斯拍拍了身上的灰尘，说：我故意这么做的。
Some of the turtles he'd seen in the shallows looked big enough to bite him in half.
有些沙洲上的海龟看起来一口就能把他咬成两半。
A lot of turtles lived on the bank of a big lake. Boys would go to the bank and look at the turtles.
有很多海龟栖息在大湖的岸旁，孩子们经常去岸边看海龟。
Scientists don't yet know if the turtles will be able to find food sources and navigate new ocean currents.
科学家目前还无法得知这些海龟能否找到食物，适应新的洋流。
He identified the turtles as Diamondback terrapins, a species common to Jamaica Bay, which surrounds the airport.
他鉴定机场附近的这些海龟为钻纹龟，这种海龟在牙买加海湾很常见。
Researchers have collected the bodies in an attempt to determine whether the turtles died due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
研究人员已经收集了这些死海龟的尸体，他们试图确定它们的死因是否与墨西哥湾漏油事件有关联。
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman John Kelly said airport crews gathered up the turtles in about 35 minutes.
纽约和新泽西港务局的发言人JohnKelly说，机场工作人员花了35分钟把海龟聚拢起来。
As if they were stones. On seeing this, the boys would laugh loudly and clap. They would go home and tell everyone the story of the turtles.
它们看起来就如石头一般。孩子一看见这种情形，就拍手大笑。他们回家后就把海龟的趣事告诉每一个人。
But they believed the magnetism to be of little use in judging longitude, leaving it a mystery as to how the turtles know their east from west.
然而，他们认为在辨识经度上磁场帮不上忙，所以海龟如何分辨东西方位仍然是个谜。
Conservationists say longline gear also damages corals and other important habitat on the sea bottom, threatening both the turtles and the fish.
环保人士称延绳钓也破坏了海底的珊瑚和对其它动植物来说很重要的海底栖息地，对鱼类和海龟都造成威胁。
When the turtles were exposed to a magnetic field characteristic of a coastal area about 209 miles north of their homes, they invariably swam southward.
当海龟被放置到具有位于它们老家以北209英里的沿海地区为特征的磁场中时，它们总是向南游。
And they replicated the magnetic fields of Puerto Rico and the Cape Verde Islands, two points along the turtles' migration, with equal latitudes but different longitudes.
模拟波多黎各和佛得角之间的磁场，这两地是海龟迁徙路线途经的两点，拥有同样的纬度但经度不同。
We explored the streams, quietly, where the turtles slid off the sunny logs and dug their way into the soft bottom; and we lay on the town wharf and fed worms to the tame bass.
我们悄悄勘查了溪流，在溪中木头上晒太阳的乌龟滑下水，一头扎到松软的水底；我们躺在镇码头上，用蚯蚓喂老实的鲈鱼。
Now it seems the scientists underestimated the turtles' abilities, with research showing they use Earth's magnetic field to create a mental map that covers all four points of the compass.
现在看来，科学家似乎低估了海龟的能力。研究表明海龟利用地球磁场为自己确定的地图可涵盖东西南北四个方位。
Two locations on the turtles’ route that have the same latitude but are hundreds of miles apart will have different ‘magnetic signatures’, allowing the animals to steer along the right longitude.
其迁徙途中同纬度相距几百英里的两地会有不同的“磁场特点”，从而引导海龟找到正确的经度。
It was obvious that he loved the Turtles and we really liked his ideas.
很显然，他爱这些神龟们而我们非常喜欢他的主意。
It bears repeating: the Turtles all had the same rules and the same training.
海龟们都学习了一样的原则，接受了一样的培训。
Chicago was a different place when the Turtles entered class in January 1984.
当1984年1月海龟们开始上课时，芝加哥已经不同了。
When the Turtles first started working together the atmosphere was pretty carefree.
当海龟们一开始在一起工作的时候，气氛是很放松的。
When the Turtles first started working together the atmosphere was pretty carefree.
当海龟们一开始在一起工作的时候，气氛是很放松的。
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