珊瑚虫

"Cleanliness is a good thing," said she, scouring the vessel with snakes, which she had tied together in a large knot; then she pricked herself in the breast, and let the black blood drop into it.

&当你穿过我的森林回去的时候，如果珊瑚虫捉住了你的话，&巫婆说，&你只须把这药水洒一滴到它们的身上，它们的手臂和指头就会裂成碎片，向四边纷飞了。&

For hundreds of years tiny coral creatures have worked and died to make thousands of ring-shaped islands called atolls.

几百年来微小的珊瑚虫不断进化演变，从而形成了数以万计的环形珊瑚礁。

All sorts of fossils are included in the mix, ranging from fossilised plants, trees, fish, reptiles and corals to gastropods, bivalves and crinoids.

这里有各种各样的化石，从植物、树木、鱼、爬行动物和珊瑚虫，到腹足动物、双壳类动物和海百合类动物都有。

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.

意译：一只蝴蝶鱼食物在可怕的珊瑚虫离开帕劳群岛海岸，一个群岛共和国的位置大约800公里在菲律宾的东侧。

A large rust-colored gorgonian sea fan perches against a reef in Micronesia.

一个巨大的铁锈色可怕的海洋扇子，是珊瑚虫栖息靠着那暗礁在密克罗尼西亚群岛。

But unless herbivory is unusually low, this will not create a phase shift from the Great Barrier Reef being primarily made up of coral to being primarily made up of algae.

除非植食动物异常少，否则基本上由珊瑚虫组成的大堡礁变异为几乎由海藻组成的情况是不会发生的。

One rock can be home to at least ten major types, such as corals, mollusks, and sponges.

一块岩石可以成为至少10中主要种类的家，像珊瑚虫，软体动物，和海绵体。

She fastened her long flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi might not seize hold of it.

她把飘着的长发牢牢地缠在头上，好使珊瑚虫抓不住她。

Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in which all the trees and flowers were polypi, half animals and half plants; they looked like serpents with a hundred heads growing out of the ground.

在这后面有一个可怕的森林，她的房子就在里面，所有的树和灌木林全是些珊瑚虫--一种半植物和半动物的东西。它们看起来很像地里冒出来的多头蛇。

She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted forward as a fish shoots through the water, between the supple arms and fingers of the ugly polypi, which were stretched out on each side of her.

那些在海里淹死和沉到海底下的人们，在这些珊瑚虫的手臂里，露出白色的骸骨。

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。