珊瑚状的

Appearing as flowers of the sea, the tentacles of an orange cup coral reach out in the waters of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia.

显得如同海上的花朵，杯状珊瑚的触须延伸在外到海水在密克罗尼西亚的伽罗林群岛。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

以细长的珊瑚为食物，一只长1.7英寸（4.3厘米）半透明的 Phyllodesmium iriomotense 就像那些断肢求生动物一样，如果受到攻击的话，它的枝状消化腺会收回到触手形的裸鳃中。

As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds.

因为它流下来的时候，那状态颇像萌芽发叶，或藤蔓的蔓生，造成了许多软浆似的喷射，有时深达一英尺或一英尺以上，你望它们的时候，形态像一些苔藓的条裂的、有裂片的、叠盖的叶状体；或者，你会想到珊瑚，豹掌，或鸟爪，或人脑，或脏腑，或任何的分泌。

The excretion of a small, harmless, snake-shaped creature known as the coral grubb, coralite is spongelike in appearance.

珊瑚岩是一种细小无害，蛇状，叫作珊瑚虫的生物的排泄物，外形像海绵。

A saddled butterfly fish feeds on gorgonian coral off coast of Palau, an island republic located about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the Philippines.

一条鞍状蝴蝶鱼饲养在柳珊瑚离开帕劳共和国的海岸，一个岛屿共和国位于约500英里（ 800公里）以东的菲律宾。

A saddled butterfly fish feeds on gorgonian coral off coast of Palau, an island republic located about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the Philippines.

一条鞍状蝴蝶鱼饲养在可怕的珊瑚在帕劳共和国的海岸之外，一个共和国岛位于约500英里（800公里）菲律宾的东面。

A saddled butterfly fish feeds on gorgonian coral off coast of Palau, an island republic located about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the Philippines.

一条鞍状蝴蝶鱼吃食物在可怕的珊瑚远离帕劳群岛的海岸，是一个共和国岛地域在菲律宾东800公里。

Photo Gallery: Coral Reefs A saddled butterfly fish feeds on gorgonian coral off coast of Palau, an island republic located about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the Philippines.

Laman 意译：珊瑚礁图库。一条鞍状蝴蝶鱼吃食物在可怕的珊瑚远离帕劳群岛的海岸，是一个共和国岛地域在菲律宾东800公里。

Horse-eye jack swim in a dense school in the Cayman Islands.

意译：雄性的马眼鱼呈密集状巡游在大鳄鱼岛，已经成为知名的潜水鱼群，它们还会协助珊瑚暗礁群，使得暗礁延伸九十厘米（0.9米）。

Horse-eye jack swim in a dense school in the Cayman Islands. Known to approach divers, horse-eye jack are associated with coral reefs and can reach lengths of more than 3 feet (0.9 meters).

意译：雄性的马眼鱼呈密集状巡游在大鳄鱼岛，已经成为知名的潜水鱼群，它们还会协助珊瑚暗礁群，使得暗礁延伸九十厘米（0.9米）。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。