时差N小时 水母暴增破坏全球旅游景点

Huge swarms¹ of stinging jellyfish and similar slimy animals are ruining beaches in Hawaii, the Gulf² of Mexico, the Mediterranean³, Australia and elsewhere, U.S. researchers reported on Dec.12.

研究人员12月12日报告，大群带刺的水母，以及同样黏滑的水生动物正在破坏夏威夷，墨西哥海湾，地中海、澳大利亚和美国沿岸的海滩。

The report says 150 million people are exposed to jellyfish globally every year, with 500,000 people stung in the Chesapeake Bay, off the U.S. Atlantic Coast, alone.

报告显示全球每年有1.5亿人会接触到水母，其中仅在美国大西洋沿岸的切萨皮克湾就有50万人被水母刺伤。

The report says the Black Sea's fishing and tourism industries have lost $350 million because of a proliferation of comb jelly fish.

报告上还显示：由于冠状水母的大量繁殖，导致黑海的渔业和旅游业每年损失三亿五千万美金。

The report says more than 1,000 fist-sized comb jellies can be found in a cubic yard (meter) of Black Sea water during a bloom.

报道还涉及到在繁殖旺期，黑海每一立方米的水域中就有一千多拳头大小的栉水母。

They eat the eggs of fish and compete with them for food, wiping out the livelihoods⁴ of fishermen, according to the report.

此外水母吞食鱼卵，和鱼类抢夺食物，彻底断了渔民的生计。

Human activities that could be making things nice for jellyfish include pollution, climate change, introductions of non-native species, overfishing and building artificial structures such as oil and gas rigs.

人类的某些行为会让水母的生存条件更好，这些行为包括污染，气候变化、引进外来物种、过度捕鱼以及搭建人工构造物，比如石油和天然气钻井。

1 swarms   

蜂群，一大群( swarm的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
• On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。

2 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

3 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

4 livelihoods   

生计，谋生之道( livelihood的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• First came the earliest individualistic pioneers who depended on hunting and fishing for their livelihoods. 走在最前面的是早期的个人主义先驱者，他们靠狩猎捕鱼为生。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• With little influence over policies, their traditional livelihoods are threatened. 因为马赛族人对政策的影响力太小，他们的传统生计受到了威胁。