The answer might involve their offspring, which in their larval form drift in the currents to colonize new vents.

答案可能与它们以幼虫形式随着洋流漂流到新的喷气口的后代有关。

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An ancestral species might have adapted to exploit a particular ecological niche on one island and then traveled over water to colonize other islands.

一个原始物种可能已经适应了利用一个岛屿上特定的生态位，然后在水上迁徙到其他岛屿定居。

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Spartina has the ability to take up sulfides and convert them to sulfate, a form of sulfur that the plant can use; this ability makes it easier for the grass to colonize marsh environments.

米草类植物有能力吸收硫化物并将其转化为硫酸盐——一种植物可以利用的硫的形式；这种能力使这种草更容易在沼泽环境中生长。

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You want to live here, you want to colonize. You want to make this part of your empire.

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It is also interesting to notice who does not colonize at this early period and the answer is all the most famous cities of Greece in the Classical Period.

另一个有意思的问题是,谁在早期并不殖民,答案是,古希腊时期的所有名城

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The Danes, Dutch and Brits sent their fleets and financiers to colonize the world.

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At present it has no need to colonize Siberia purely for agriculture, since Russia has plenty of arable land in more hospitable climates.

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In part, the strategy was to use social media to promote the image of PepsiCo as the good company, and, it was hoped, to colonize some part of the digital generation as the next Pepsi Generation.

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