To oversee all the details yourself in person ; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and underwriter ; to buy and sell and keep the accounts ; to read every letter received, and write or read every letter sent ; to superintend the discharge of imports night and day ; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time ? often the richest freight will be discharged upon a jersey shore ; ? to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise ; to keep up a steady despatch of commodities, for the supply of such a distant and exorbitant market ; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace everywhere, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civilization ? taking advantage of the results of all exploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in navigation ; ? charts to be studied, the position of reefs and new lights and buoys to be ascertained, and ever, and ever, the logarithmic tables to be corrected, for by the error of some calculator the vessel often splits upon a rock that should have reached a friendly pier ? there is the untold fate of la prouse ; ? universal science to be kept pace with, studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from hanno and the phoenicians down to our day ; in fine, account of stock to be taken from time to time, to know how you stand
親自照顧一切大小事務;兼任領航員與船長,業主與保險商;買進賣出又記賬;收到的信件每封都讀過,發出的信件每封都親自撰寫或審閱;日夜監督進口貨的卸落;幾乎在海岸上的許多地方,你都同時出現了似的; ? ?那裝貨最多的船總是在澤西岸上卸落的; ? ?自己還兼電報員,不知疲倦地發通訊到遠方去,和所有馳向海岸的船隻聯絡;穩當地售出貨物,供給遠方的一個無饜足的市場,既要熟悉行情,你還要明了各處的戰爭與和平的情況,預測貿易和文明的趨向; ? ?利用所有探險的成果,走最新的航道,利用一切航海技術上的進步; ? ?再要研究海圖,確定珊瑚
礁和新的燈塔、浮標的位置,而航海圖表是永遠地改而又改,因為著計算上有了一點錯誤,船隻會沖撞在一塊巖石上而至於粉碎的,不然它早該到達了一個友好的碼頭了? ? ,此外,還有
拉?貝魯斯的未知的命運; ? ?還得步步跟上字宙科學,要研究一切偉大的發現者、航海家、探險家和商人,從迦探險家飯能和腓尼基人直到現在所有這些人的一生,最後,時刻要記錄棧房中的貨物,你才知道自己處于什麼位置上。
An orange crab taken from the waters near the marshall islands ? rongelap atoll bears no outward evidence of the radioactive compounds that pollute its habitat
圖為一隻在馬爾紹群島附近的水域中捕獲的橙色螃蟹。朗格
拉普環
礁並無公開的證據表明這里存在污染生態環境的放射性化合物。
Lacy breakers lap the coral reef that rings bora - bora, an ancient sunken volcano 165 miles ( 266 kilometers ) northwest of tahiti in french polynesia ' s society islands
蕾絲花邊般的浪花輕拍著環繞在波
拉波
拉島四周的珊瑚
礁,這里是一座古老的死火山,位於法屬波利尼西亞社會群島中大溪地島的西北165英里( 266公里) 。
The atoll is comprised of four large coral islands which enclose a shallow lagoon ; the group of islands is itself surrounded by a coral reef
阿爾達布
拉環
礁由4個大的珊瑚島組成,島群內懷抱一淺淺的
礁湖,同時島群本身又被一珊瑚
礁所包圍。
" once the iceberg stuck fast on the seabed it was like a rock in a river, " said scientist vera schlindwein
科學家維
拉施林德魏因說: 「當冰山撞擊海床時,它就像河中的一座
礁石。
" it was one of the most beautiful reefs in the world and believe me i ' ve seen them all
世界著名的珊瑚生態學家猶西?洛亞教授說: 「埃
拉特的珊瑚
礁是世界上最美麗的珊瑚
礁之一,相信我,我全看過了。
" we are in the 11th hour, the very last moment to save them, " said loya, who has studied eilat ' s reefs for decades
洛亞說: 「我們現在處于最關鍵的時候,是挽救它們的最後一刻。 」他數十年來一直在研究埃
拉特的珊瑚
礁。
But the coral reefs and other aquatic life around rongelap bear no visible scars from the radiation
但朗格
拉普附近的珊瑚
礁和其它海洋生物卻沒有明顯受到輻射傷害的跡象。
He was moti, the youngest son of tati, the chief, and this was tahiti, and beyond that smoking reef lay the sweet land of papara and the chief s grass house by the river s mouth
他認出來了,那是莫提,塔提前長最小的兒子。地點是塔希提島。那霧蒙蒙的珊瑚
礁以外就是帕帕
拉的美妙的土地,酋長的草屋就坐落在河口。
In their heyday, the corals along the shores of the israeli red sea resort of eilat were a hot spot for divers drawn by one of the most spectacular and biologically diverse reefs in the world
以色列紅海旅遊勝地埃
拉特沿岸的珊瑚群在繁盛時期曾經是潛水愛好者們熱衷的地方,他們被這片世界上最壯觀、最千姿百態的珊瑚
礁所吸引。
Hurricane wilma ' s outer edge batters beaches in cancun mexico as tourists are ordered to leave and thousands are evacuated from honduras to the florida keys
墨西哥卡庫海灘地區受到威爾瑪颶風外圍的猛烈襲擊,宏都
拉斯到佛羅里達島
礁上的遊客和數千名當地居民被要求撤離
The damage is most extensive around south patong beach - with 20 percent devastation - and koh pai and rana bay off phi phi island, which lost almost half the reef
南帕東海灘一帶的珊瑚有20 %嚴重受損,而科帕依和
拉納灣的珊瑚
礁有一半都毀掉了。
In 1989 an oil tanker hit a rock off the northwest coast of alaska
1989年一艘油輪在阿
拉斯加西北海岸的海面上觸
礁。
At the time, the reefs should have regenerated as a sewage plant began to treat eilat ' s waste. instead, coral degradation accelerated and new coral growth dropped to near zero
那時,珊瑚
礁本來應該可以再生,因為當時一個污水處理廠開始處理埃
拉特的垃圾了。而情況卻恰恰相反,珊瑚
礁加速衰退,新生珊瑚的生長速度幾乎降為零。
He and other experts say eilat ' s reefs will soon be wiped out unless the government swiftly closes companies that breed some five million fish a year in cages and are operating without permits
他和其他專家都認為,如果政府不能盡快關閉那些每年撒網飼養約五百萬條魚的無證經營的公司,埃拉特的珊瑚礁將很快消失。