- For five months of the year it's sealed by an ice sheet over a metre thick.
每年中总有5个月 湖面被1米厚的冰层覆盖
- Baikal is the oldest lake in the world
贝加尔湖是世界上最古老的湖泊
- and, despite the harsh conditions, life flourishes here in isolation.
尽管生存条件恶劣 生命仍在这个与世隔绝的地方得到了兴盛
- 80 percent of its species are found nowhere else on Earth,
湖里80%的物种 在地球上其它地方都不存在
- including the world's only fresh water seal.
包括世界上唯一的淡水海豹
- With this seal
有了这种海豹
- and its marine-like forests of sponges
再加上海底森林一般的海绵
来自《行星地球 第一季 第三集 Planet Earth S01E03 淡水》第 159 行