Man has used the oceans like a dustbin for far too long.

从很久很久以前，人类就把海洋当作垃圾桶来使用了。

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The oceans are heavily polluted by plastic waste.

海洋受到塑料垃圾的严重污染。

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The oceans around the world are all of the plastic, millions of tons of plastic.

世界各地的海洋都是塑料，足足有数百万吨。

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The researchers say the coral trade is removing about one million five hundred thousand live stony corals from the oceans each year.

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And one of the things you often hear about in this discussion is about our oceans and about rainforests, and part of the reason why people want to protect those areas is because you find a lot of natural products in those regions.

其中你们会经常听到的一个,就是关于海洋和热带雨林的讨论,人们想保护这些地方的部分原因,就是因为在这些地方,人们可以发现一些天然产物。

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The movie tells about the effects of overfishing on local economies and on the health of the oceans.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Take the oceans, about which we know much less than the dark side of the moon.

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When the oceans ran out of iron, the oxygen was free to accumulate in the air.

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It is the prospect of irretrievable damage to the atmosphere, to the oceans, to earth itself.

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