When an outbreak of CoT starfish occurs, they thin out the fast-growing coral and may give the slower ones a chance to reestablish.

当刺冠海星爆发时，它们会使快速生长的珊瑚变薄，并可能给生长缓慢的珊瑚一个重新生长的机会。

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Now let's focus on a specific example of a natural predator that can cause a lot of damage to coral reefs—the Crown of Thorns, or CoT starfish.

现在，让我们来看一个自然捕食者的具体例子，它会对珊瑚礁造成很大的伤害——那就是刺冠海星。

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He bought a cot for him to sleep on in the living area and tried to make his former bedroom suitable for a woman.

他买了一张轻便小床，放在起居室里留自己睡觉，而把他原本睡觉的房间改造成一间适合女人居住的卧室。

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It comprised a cot bed in a clean, white-washed cell up under the eves and adjacent to a big balcony that looked out onto the street and across the city's dark tempestuous night.

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On a folding wooden chair next to her cot sits a can of sunflower seeds and a stack of crossword puzzles from a local Russian-language newspaper.

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Science, too, is one step ahead of Professor Meadow and is working on the opposite theory - that in fact the more cot deaths a mother suffers, the more likely it is that she and her babies suffer a genetic condition.

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