- Our planet's continents are fringed by shallow seas.
我们陆地的边缘都是浅海域 - Rarely more than two hundred meters deep they lie on the continental shelves which may stretch sometimes for hundreds of miles
它们挨着大陆架 很少地超过200米深, 大陆架有时可能延伸达几百英里 - before the sea floor drops into deeper darker waters.
再往下就是漆黑的深渊 - All together they constitute a mere eight percent of the world's oceans
尽管浅水域仅仅占据了8%的海洋 - but they contain the vast majority of it's marine life.
不过大多数的海洋生物都生活在这里