英语听书《海底两万里》第218期 第16章 在海底平原散步(9)

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　　This family produces both the biggest and smallest vegetables in the world.  地球上最小和最大的植物都产生在海藻类中。

　　Because, just as 40,000 near-invisible buds have been counted in one five-square-millimeter space, so also have fucus plants been gathered that were over 500 meters long! 因为五平方毫米的地方，可以有四万条这类肉眼不可见的微生植物，同时人们又采过长一直超过五百米的海带。

　　We had been gone from the Nautilus for about an hour and a half. It was almost noon.  我们离开诺第留斯号有一小时半左右了。正是快到中午的时候。

　　I spotted⁴ this fact in the perpendicularity⁵ of the sun's rays, which were no longer refracted.  我看见太阳光垂直地照下来，再没有曲折作用了。

　　The magic of these solar colors disappeared little by little, with emerald and sapphire⁶ shades vanishing from our surroundings altogether.  颜色变幻的花样渐渐没有了，翠玉和青玉的各种色度也从我们的头顶上消失了。

　　We walked with steady steps that rang on the seafloor with astonishing intensity⁷. The tiniest sounds were transmitted with a speed to which the ear is unaccustomed on shore.  我们步伐很规律地走着，踩夜地上发出异常响亮的声音。很轻微的声晌也很快地传出去。这是在陆地上时的耳朵所不熟悉的。

　　In fact, water is a better conductor of sound than air, and under the waves noises carry four times as fast. 本来，对于声音，水比空气是更好的传音体，它传播声音比空气快四倍。

　　Just then the seafloor began to slope sharply downward. The light took on a uniform hue⁸.  这时候，海底地面由于有明显的斜坡，渐渐低下去。光线的色泽是一致的。

　　We reached a depth of 100 meters, by which point we were undergoing a pressure of ten atmospheres.  我们到了百米的深度，受到十大气医的压力。

　　But my diving clothes were built along such lines that I never suffered from this pressure.  但我的潜水衣是为适应这些情况制成的，所以我没有感到这种压力的难受。

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