A minke whale swims near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.(一頭小須鯨正在澳大利亞大堡礁附近游弋。)

Declining water quality is a major factor in the pollution of the Great Barrier Reef.(水質(zhì)下降是在大堡礁污染的主要因素。)

Overall, the reserve is around 140, 000 square miles in size, larger than the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.(宏觀看來(lái)，這個(gè)保護(hù)區(qū)大約有140，000平方英里，比澳大利亞的大堡礁還要大。)

The Coral Sea covers 780,000 square kilometers and borders the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's east coast.(珊瑚海涵蓋780,000平方公里，毗鄰澳大利亞?wèn)|海岸的大堡礁。)

The Aussies are justifiably proud of the largest coral reef on earth - the Great Barrier reef.(澳大利亞最有理由自豪的地球上最大的珊瑚礁-大堡礁。)

In 2006, severe bleaching struck the southern part of Australia's Great Barrier reef, the largest coral reef system in the world.(2006年，嚴(yán)重的褪色現(xiàn)象襲擊了澳大利亞大堡礁南部——世界上最大的珊瑚礁系統(tǒng)。)

This isn't scuba diving now off the Great Barrier Reef, or something like that.(這不是在大堡礁附近潛水，或者是類似的潛水的活動(dòng)。)

The new project will involve a species of staghorn coral from the Great Barrier Reef, Acropora millepora.(這項(xiàng)新的計(jì)劃將包含一種大堡礁的鹿角大珊瑚（Acroporamillepora）。)

A sponge from Australia's Great Barrier Reef was home to almost 3, 000 different types of bacteria.(而在澳大利亞大堡礁中的一種海綿，居然是將近3,000中不同細(xì)菌的寄主。)

At over 2000 kilometers long, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on earth.(大堡礁延綿2000公里以上，是地球上最大的生命結(jié)構(gòu)體。)