Again, what we're seeing here is blue light hitting this image.

我们里所看到的是，蓝色 光照在虫的图像 。

They're a symbiotic duo, a partnership, between an algae and a coral.

是共生体，是海藻和虫之间的合作关系。

A small piece of coral may be made of hundreds of polyps.

一小片可能都是由上百虫构成的。

This tight-knit bond between algae and corals is what makes reefs so incredibly productive.

藻类和虫之间的种紧密联系，就是礁生产力如此惊人的原因所在。

They do this so that they can eat the coral polyps and algae inside.

样它们就能吃到虫和里面的海藻了。

Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.

皮普看见了无数上帝一般无所不在的虫，从水的天穹中升起的巨大星体。

At the heart of reef ecosystems lies a symbiosis between corals and algae.

礁生态系统的核心是虫和藻类的共生关系。

The polyps that make up the stony corals are among the winners of climate change.

构成石的虫是气候变化的赢家之一。

It's coral polyps, and within that that coral structure that's kind of a hive or kind of the house for the coral polyps.

是虫，在结构里面是虫的蜂巢或房子。

The answer is starfish. The crown-of-thorns starfish preys on coral and large outbreaks of these starfish can devastate reefs.

正确答案是海星。棘冠星鱼会捕食虫，大量的海星会摧毁。

Together, colonies of polyps produce large three-dimensional structures, which form the basis of an underwater metropolis.

成群的虫一起制造出立体的结构，就有了水下都市的基础。

Which of these invertebrates is an anthozoan known for its stony skeleton?

以下哪种无脊椎动物是以石质骨骼着称的虫？

And the mucus has another function: It helps the fish’s lips seal shut around the lumpy coral, which helps it suck in one particularly tasty part: the polyps’ own mucus, plus some flesh chunks.

粘液还有另一功能： 它帮助鱼的嘴唇密封住块状，有助于它吸入一特别美味的部分： 虫自己的粘液和一些肉块。

We can actually look to coral as a great example of what an individual can achieve because the coral reef is made up of initially one tiny polyp that grows into a colony and then collects and reforms that reef.

实际上，我们可以把作为一很好的例子，来说明人可以取得什么样的成就，因为礁最初是由一小虫组成的，些小虫长成一群，然后聚集起来，形成礁。