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 Tucked away in the United Arab Emirate’s northernmost region, a very delicate experiment is underway to bring some luster1 back to the region’s pearl industry. Since 2005, one company has been cultivating pearls commercially, the first such modern operation of its kind in the Gulf2.

 
“Well, for thousands of years, the whole region depended and, depended totally on pearl fishing. And within a few years, let’s say that two decades, because of the discovery of oil and the invention of pearl culture, the whole industry collapsed3.”
 
Al-Suwaidi says that the UAE is the first Gulf nation to renew pearl cultivation4, and for good reason. His stock of over 100,000 pearl-producing mollusks are kept in pans and painstakingly6 cleaned and tended, increasing their potential to grow and produce large high-quality pearls.
 
Oysters8 are a very delicate species of mollusk5 whose lives and prosperities are measures of the environmental conditions they inhabit. Al-Suwaidi’s business partner, Imura Daiji, says the link between the pearl and its environment is very important. The bigger and healthier the pearl oyster7, the larger the pearl it can produce.
 
“Oyster pearl cultivation and the environment is a very very deep relationship.”
 
The untouched quality of this protected ecosystem9 has allowed him to see a faster span of production time than he had seen in Japan, the birthplace of the industry.
 
In years past, pearl divers would plunge without apparatus more than 100 feet beneath the sea, making as many as 30 or more dives a day with only an estimated…

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1 luster n82z0     
n.光辉；光泽，光亮；荣誉
参考例句：
  • His great books have added luster to the university where he teaches.他的巨著给他任教的大学增了光。
  • Mercerization enhances dyeability and luster of cotton materials.丝光处理扩大棉纤维的染色能力，增加纤维的光泽。
2 gulf 1e0xp     
n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂
参考例句：
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
3 collapsed cwWzSG     
adj.倒塌的
参考例句：
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
4 cultivation cnfzl     
n.耕作，培养，栽培（法），养成
参考例句：
  • The cultivation in good taste is our main objective.培养高雅情趣是我们的主要目标。
  • The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.这块土地不够肥沃，不值得耕种。
5 mollusk u6ozk     
n.软体动物
参考例句：
  • I swear I have never seen such a mollusk with thorns all over its body.我敢发誓我从来没有见过这种全身长满棘刺的软体动物。
  • The colour varies with the mollusk and its environment.颜色因母体及其环境的不同而异。
6 painstakingly painstakingly     
adv. 费力地 苦心地
参考例句：
  • Every aspect of the original has been closely studied and painstakingly reconstructed. 原作的每一细节都经过了仔细研究，费尽苦心才得以重现。
  • The cause they contrived so painstakingly also ended in failure. 他们惨淡经营的事业也以失败而告终。
7 oyster w44z6     
n.牡蛎；沉默寡言的人
参考例句：
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎，它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时，我发现我相当喜欢吃。
8 oysters 713202a391facaf27aab568d95bdc68f     
牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
  • She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。
9 ecosystem Wq4xz     
n.生态系统
参考例句：
  • This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
  • We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。

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