纪录片《我们的地球》 第227期 无垠深海(19)

Many others are here, too, resting on the sandy sea floor

还有其他的绿海龟正在有沙质海床上休憩，

awaiting the darkness of night, when it'll be safer to visit the beaches.

等待黑夜的降临，这样可以较安全爬上沙滩。

Eggs that were laid a few weeks ago, at the start of the season, are beginning to hatch¹.

几周前下的蛋，在这个季节伊始开始孵化了。

Most hatchings happen at night.

多数的蛋是在夜间孵化。

Now, in the light of day, the young are extremely vulnerable².

现在是白天，小海龟们很容易受到攻击。

They must get to the sea as soon as possible, but their trials have only just begun.

它们必须尽快爬向大海，不过小海龟的试炼才刚刚开始。

Many will drown in the pounding waves.

许多小海龟淹死在巨浪中。

During the next twenty years, the vast majority will inevitably³ die,

在接下来的20年时间里，大多数的海龟将不可避免的死去，

but those that survive will, eventually, as their mothers did before them,

活下来的海龟最终还会做它们的母亲做过的事情，

return to the very same beach where they were hatched⁴.

回到它们孵化过的海滩上繁殖。

How they find their way back across thousands of miles of open ocean, we still have no idea.

它们如何从1000英里外再次赶回仍然是个谜。

1 hatch   

n.孵化，舱口；vt.孵，孵出，策划；vi. 孵化

参考例句：

• No one knows how the new plan will hatch out.谁也不知道这新方案将怎样制订出来。
• The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋，想去孵它。

2 vulnerable   

adj.易受伤的，脆弱的，易受攻击的

参考例句：

• He volunteered to protect her as she looked so vulnerable.她看上去很脆弱，他就主动去保护她。
• The company is in an economically vulnerable position.该公司目前经济状况不稳定。

3 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。

4 hatched   

孵化( hatch的过去式和过去分词 )； 孵出，破壳而出； 秘密策划，（尤指）密谋； 使（小鸟、小鱼、小虫等）孵出

参考例句：

• Silkworms are fed mulberry leaves after they have hatched. 蚕孵出后食桑叶。
• Ten out of the set of twelve were hatched. 一窝十二个蛋孵出了十个。