When a whale dies, it quickly drops to the bottom of the ocean floor.
鲸鱼死亡后，很快就会沉入海底。
Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.
即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。
As the ocean floor plate begins to sink down into the mantle, it would drag or pull the entire plate along with it.
当海洋底部开始下沉到地幔中，它会同时将整个海底板块拖拽下去。
An air bubble ascending from the ocean floor contorts and twists into a semicircle as a wave breaks in the background.
当波浪在背景中破碎时，从海底升起的气泡扭曲成半圆形。
They can be up to one and a half meters long, and these tubes are attached to the ocean floor, pretty weird looking, huh?
它们最多可以有1.5米长，而且这些管子连接在海底，看起来很奇怪，是吧？
Ocean scientists study the chemical make-up of the ocean, weather patterns, the geography of the ocean floor, and many other areas.
海洋科学家研究海洋的化学成分、气候模式、海底地貌以及许多其他领域。
Well over half of those ships were carrying cargo stored in large ceramic jars, many of which were preserved largely intact on the ocean floor.
这些船只中有一半以上装载着储存在大型陶瓷罐子里的货物，其中许多罐子被完好无损地保存在海底。
If an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.
如果一个海底构造板块与大陆边缘接触并相互挤压，较重的板块下沉到另一个的下面。
The rock material flows up from Earth's interior here, at the split, which forces the two sides of the ocean floor to spread apart, to make room for the new rock material.
岩石物质从地球内部的裂缝处向上流动，迫使海底向两边分开，为新的岩石物质腾出空间。
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.
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。
But when it wants to blend in with its environment to hide from its enemies, it can take on the color of its immediate surroundings: the ocean floor, a rock, a piece of coral, whatever.
但当它想要融入环境以躲避敌人时，它就会呈现出周围环境的颜色：海底、岩石、珊瑚等等。
If that happens, slab pull could draw the oceanic crust under the continent, actually causing the Americas to move eastward toward Europe and the ocean floor to get smaller.
若果真如此，岩板拉力会将海洋地壳拖拽到大陆之下，实际上会使美洲大陆向东移动靠近欧洲，海床也会缩小。
More and more of this plate, the ocean floor, would go down under the continent into the mantle.
越来越多的这种板块，即海床，将在大陆下方进入地幔。
In the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of mining the ocean floor was all the rage.
在1960年代和70年代，海底采矿的想法风行一时。
A lizardfish captures a meal on the sandy ocean floor of temperate Suruga Bay.
一条蜥鱼在温和的骏河湾多沙的海底捕获一餐。
When the plants die, they sink to the ocean floor where bacteria begin to break them down.
当浮游植物死后沉到海底，细菌开始将其分解。
A third search of the ocean floor to try to locate the black boxes had ended in failure last May.
去年五月第三波寻找黑匣子的海底搜寻活动以失败告终。
The vessel spent barely 20 minutes on the ocean floor, and only unmanned vessels have been back since.
潜艇在海底只待了不到20分钟，在那之后，人们只用无人驾驶的潜艇再次探测过那里。
Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor.
俄勒冈州立大学的科学家已经确定，在海底下面储存着大量的水。
The food supply is made up of dead and decaying plant and animal matter that's sunk to the ocean floor.
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。
Shortly thereafter, oil began leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from ruptured pipes deep on the ocean floor.
事故发生后不久，原油开始自深入海床的破裂输送管道中泄露出来。
Related to shrimp and crabs, the giant isopod is a deep-sea crustacean that makes its home on the ocean floor.
巨型等足目动物与虾和蟹有关，是以海底为家的深海甲壳纲动物。
For this odd -looking fish looks like he's just decided to head out for an evening stroll along the ocean floor.
看来这只怪模怪样的鱼决定今天晚上要在海底散散步了。
These jellies are almost transparent: the best way to spot them is to look for their shadows on the ocean floor.
这些水母几乎是透明的：发现它们最好的方法是寻找海床上的阴影。
Ship-based sonar would help, but ship-based instruments have mapped only about 10 percent of the ocean floor so far.
尽管船舶声纳技术也用得上，但是迄今为止利用船舶器械仅仅绘制出海底地貌的10%。
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, but they support one out of every four Marine creatures.
珊瑚礁只是覆盖了大洋海底不到1%的地方，可是它却支持着海洋生物中的四分之一的生存。
They can dive some 300 feet (90 meters) to feed on the ocean floor and can remain submerged for as long as 12 minutes.
它们能潜入约90米深的海底觅食，潜水时间长达12分钟。
Two days after the explosion, the rig sank to the ocean floor, and a pipe connected to the well on the sea floor broke.
在爆炸发生后两日，钻井平台沉入海底，连接海床油井的输油管道破裂。
They can be used to explore for minerals on the ocean floor or in deep areas of mines too dangerous for humans to enter.
它们可以用于海底探矿或探测对人类太危险的深层区域的矿物。
This also exists on the ocean floor in the form of gas hydrates, a form of frozen methane also known as the "ice that burns."
它们以气体水合物的形式存在于海床之上——这种凝固的甲烷被称之为“可燃冰”。
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