So, paradoxically, it's the roasted sands of Arabia that prevent the gulf 矛盾的是 热浪朝天的的阿拉伯半岛
Sand whipped up by Shamals offshore winds blows into the seas of the Arabian Gulf. 夏马风卷起沙尘 吹向波斯湾
The only source of trouble is likely to be the neighbors 麻烦的唯一来源可能就是邻居了
The desert of Bahrain seems a very unlikely place 巴林的戈壁沙漠
to find a crowded bustling colony of seabirds 看上去不象是能有大量海鸟筑巢的地方
Now they're in real danger of being stranded 现在它们有搁浅的危险
The fish are tantalizingly close but they're still out of reach, 虽然已经很接近鱼儿了 急人的是还是差那么一点
and they have discovered a shoal of baitfish. 发明了一种利用浅滩钓鱼的方法
A herd can clear a patch of seagrass the size of a football pitch in a single day. 这群儒艮可以在一天内吃掉足球场般大小的海草
Food is not evenly distributed in the tropical shallow seas and it can take a lot of finding 食物在热带海域的分布并不平均 所以要找到食物也不容易