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coral reef

珊瑚礁,珊珊礁

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a reef composed mainly of coral and other organic matter of which parts have solidified into limestone.

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Examples

  • In fact, coral reefs generate a constant stream of melodious tunes.

  • For now, book the three-bedroom villa and explore the island’s hikes and pristine coral reef.

  • To cool down, Peter, a climate scientist who studied coral reefs, had stood in a stream for an hour, like a man might stand at a morgue waiting to identify a loved one’s body, irritated by his powerlessness, massively depressed.

  • Cutting trees for fuel leads to deforestation, causing landslides and erosion of fertile land that can run off into the ocean, damaging coral reefs and marine ecosystems.

  • When a coral reef is healthy, it’s quite noisy with the sound of marine activity, and that noise attracts more activity.

  • I was out, maybe in the Great Barrier Reef catching black marlin.

  • Cason is now retired from the Foreign Service and is the mayor of Coral Gables, Florida.

  • Coral reefs are in decline, coastal dead zones are on the rise, and marine life is dying.

  • For as long as anyone could remember, Adam Winfield of Cape Coral, Florida, wanted to join the U.S. military.

  • Big British bookmaker Coral has suspended betting on Kate announcing she is pregnant again before the end of this month.

  • The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.

  • The few birds that frequented the reef were very shy, and flew away at our approach: they were principally pelicans and terns.

  • Between these two ranges of islands we only obtained one cast of the lead which gave us thirty-three fathoms on a coral bottom.

  • REEF k, in latitude 14 degrees 47 minutes, has a dry sand upon it: its sub-marine extent was not ascertained.

  • All the islands are low and wooded, and surrounded by a coral reef of small extent.