barrier reef

基本解釋

Australia's Coral Sea, near the Great Barrier Reef, is one of the last remaining tropical wilderness areas in the world.
在澳洲的珊瑚海大堡礁的附近，還殘存著這世界上僅賸的熱帶野生動物活動區(qū)域之一。
A report this week suggests that the growth of coral on the Great Barrier Reef, off Australia, has slowed by 13% since 1990.
本周的一份報(bào)告顯示，澳大利亞海岸大堡礁上珊瑚的生長速度自1990年以來已經(jīng)下降了13%。
Assist a team of scientists in their work with tiger sharks in the far north of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef through Marine Encounters.
通過海上偶然遭遇，在澳大利亞遙遠(yuǎn)北方的大堡礁協(xié)助一組從事研究虎鯊工作的科學(xué)家。

Some places like Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Montana's Glacier National Park are threatened by the effects of climate change.
This isn't scuba diving now off the Great Barrier Reef, or something like that.
不是現(xiàn)在大堡礁海岸邊的潛水運(yùn)動,或者其他類似的活動
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Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

Every place you look, from corals in great barrier reef, to polar bear tracks.
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an area of coral (= a substance like rock formed by small sea creatures) just above or just below the surface of the sea, that is close to land but separated from it by an area of water

a long narrow coral reef near and lying parallel to the shore, separated from it by deep water