英国石油公司计划在漏油点上方建造一个巨大的圆顶，将海底的石油吸到船上，以便安全处理。
BP has plans to lower a massive dome over the leak site to suck oil from the seabed into vessels that can take it for safe disposal.
如果它想要纹理光滑一些，它就把身上的“触头”变得平整，这样它看上去就会很光滑，能够融入海底的沙地中。
If it wants to have a smooth texture, it flattens out the papillae, so it can acquire a smooth texture to blend in with the sandy bottom of the sea.
例如，斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为，大陆漂移理论之所以被否决，是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。
Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.
潜水员希望揭开海底的一些秘密。
The divers hoped to unlock some of the secrets of the seabed.
下降了的海平面使白令海底的浅大陆架露了出来。
Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
这张专辑向人们讲述了长期隐匿在海底的鲸鱼的秘密。
This album told people secrets about whales that had long been hidden under the sea.
她开始着手构建一些装置来帮助解决这个问题：遥控潜水器。这个装置能够在水里移动，发现位于海底的塑料。
She got to work building something that could help solve the problem: a remote-operated vehicle, or ROV. Her ROV can move through water and find plastics on the ocean floor.
例如，海星捕食各种双壳类软体动物，防止这些双壳类动物独占海底的栖息地。
For example, sea stars prey on a variety of bivalve mollusks and prevent these bivalves from monopolizing habitats on the sea floor.
海底的磷必须找到某种方式回到表面，以完成这个循环，从而重新开始这个循环。
The phosphorus at the bottom of the ocean has to somehow make its way back to the surface, to complete the cycle, to begin the cycle all over again.
研究人员收集了150年以来的海洋温度数据，以便更好地了解从海洋表面到海底的热量吸收情况。
The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get a better picture of heat absorption from surface to seabed.
曾经是海底的陆地现在成了城镇周围广阔肥沃的田野；这里曾经有过螃蟹爬行，现在则有驴子择路而行。
Land that was once at the bottom of the sea now lies around the town in wide, fertile fields; where crabs once crawled, donkeys pick their way.
久而久之海底的流沙有助于雕塑的形成。
Shifting sand of the ocean floor helps the sculptures evolve over time.
但是焦博士注意到其在海底的分布有些奇怪。
But Dr Jiao noticed something odd about its distribution in the sea.
这也是海底的震波造成的(容易被误解成潮汐波)。
These are also known as seismic sea waves (mistakenly called "tidal waves").
它们是水成岩，是由海水作用沉至海底的。
They are sedimentary rocks, rocks which were laid down by the action of water on the bed of the ocean.
杰克：有时他们在海底的植物和岩石下找到些东西⋯。
Jake: Sometimes they find objects under plants or rocks on the bottom of the sea...
山是古代受侵蚀海底的遗作，上载着秀美竹林和水稻梯田。
The mountains are vestiges of ancient eroded seabeds that support graceful bamboo groves and terraced rice paddies.
人们不了解很多有关海底的重要事件，不过这周通过了一个。
YOU do not see many milestones on the floor of the ocean, but one was passed this week.
然而这未必属实，我们要学的还有很多，尤其是对海底的探知。
We have a lot to learn and, particularly, a lot to learn in the ocean's depths.
食物供应主要由沉入海底的死亡且正在腐烂的植物和动物组成。
The food supply is made up of dead and decaying plant and animal matter that's sunk to the ocean floor.
橙色的圆鳍鱼始终在游动，海底的冰始终闪烁着绿光。
All the while, the orange lumpsucker swims, and the ice glows green undersea.
渔船可以在接近海底的地方捕到鳕鱼和其他鱼类，而不是沙丁鱼和乌贼。
Trawlers in the area obtain hake and other fish that are at or near the bottom, not sardines and squid.
杰克：希律城坐落在海岸上，许多人在找那些可能在海底的东西。
Jake: Herod's City was located on the coast... A lot of people look for objects that might be on the bottom of the sea.
声明敦促菲律宾管理者建立或扩展海洋保护区，并控制塑料垃圾对海底的污染。
It urged Philippine conservators to set up or expand Marine protected areas and curb plastic rubbish that litters the ocean floor.
随后11名工人失踪，几天后，位于海底的油井泄漏变得尤为明显。
Eleven workers were lost, and several days later it became apparent that the well underneath had begun to leak.
调查人员现在将试图确定这架双引擎飞机坠海的位置，以及飞机残骸在海底的位置。
Investigators will now try to determine where the two-engine plane hit the water, and where its wreckage is on the sea bed.
沿着海岸线也有很多高大的棕榈树，人工海岛由海底的海沙填成，并有防波堤保护。
Gigantic palm trees also sprouted along the coast-artificial islands made from sea-floor sand protected by rock breakwaters.
类似贻贝、海蛇尾和海胆这样生活在海底的生物尚未演化出任何防御能力。
Bottom-dwelling creatures like mussels, brittle stars and sea urchins have not developed any defenses.
每年夏天生活在楚科奇海域的绝大部分海象都是雌海象，它们吃食遍布海底的蛤蜊储蓄脂肪。
The vast majority of walruses in the Chukchi each summer are females who fatten up on clams that populate the seafloor.
把二氧化碳存到海底的想法让我想起了当我还是个孩子的时候的一个更天真的想法。
The idea of storing carbon dioxide under the ocean reminds me of a rather naive idea I once had as a kid.
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