纪录片《南太平洋》 第113期 水火相容（18）

（单词翻译）

Schools of snapper take the lead... while a wall of fusiliers mops up the remains¹.

啮鱼群带头...一大群红梅鲷做着残羹的扫尾工作

Across the South Pacific, time continues to work its magic on rock.

掠过南太平洋，时间不停地在岩石上施展着魔力

Millions of years of erosion and sinking have reduced the volcanic² mount of Maupiti to little more than a hill.

数百万年的侵蚀和渗透已经将莫皮蒂火山缩减成和小山冈差不多了

Eventually, this hill will disappear too.

最终这个小山冈也会消失的

And when it does, it will look like this... Mataiva, a coral atoll.

到那时就会像这样...马太瓦，一座珊瑚环岛。

Rising above the waves, a coral atoll's reef surrounds a shallow lagoon³.

升到海面上的珊瑚环岛暗礁包围着浅礁湖

Where there was once a mighty⁴ peak, now there is only water.

曾经强大的山峰如今只有了海水

There are thousands of atolls like Mataiva dotted around the South Pacific,

有数千座像马太瓦这样的珊瑚环岛，星罗棋布的点缀在南太平洋

their size and shape determined⁵ by the original volcano.

它们的规模和形状由起初的火山决定。