IT WAS the mangroves he noticed first, reduced to cobwebbed wraiths as far as the eye could see. 红树林,退化成纵横交织地哀鸿遍野,是他最先注意到的事情。
The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and whispered through the mangroves, and the little waves beat on the rubbly beach with an increased tempo. 晨风吹皱了港湾里的水,也从红树丛中飒飒吹过,小浪更急地打在有堆积物的沙滩上。
Mangroves are shrubs or small trees that grow in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves occur worldwide in the tropics and subtropics, mainly between latitudes 25°N and 25°S. In the year 2000, the area of mangroves was 53,190 square miles (137,760km²), spanning 118 countries and territories.
a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building