Those bacteria snack on nutrients that float down from the surface—so-called marine snow.

这些细菌以从海面上落下被称为海洋雪的营养物为食。

These particles we've seen raining down are marine snow.

我们看到的这些落下的粒子是海雪。

What Forbes failed to take into account is something called marine snow, which sounds much nicer than it is.

当然，深海生物的发现证实了他是错的，福布斯没有考虑到的是一种叫海雪的东西。

PELAGRA will suck ocean water with marine snow into containers and periodically bring them to the surface for detailed study.

“PELAGRA ”将会收集海洋雪，并定期对它进行细致研究。

Marine snow is basically organic matter, things like particles of dead algae, plants, and animals, drifting down into the depths and acting as food for deep-sea animals.

这种东西的名字听起来比它实质要美妙很多，海雪是一种有机物质，像死去的海藻或动植物的粒子沉入到深海中。

Some of it dies and trickles down through the ocean as so-called marine snow, a sort of perpetual rain of organic matter that falls to the seafloor.

有一些会死亡，然后会在海洋中向下移动，也就是所谓的海洋雪，就是有机物不断地像雪花一样飘落到海床。

Marine snow is composed of dead phytoplankton which sort of clump together to form flakes and then they're heavy enough to sink down into the deep ocean.

海洋雪是由已死的浮游植物所组成，并形成类似碎片的聚集体，由于体积过大，它们能够到达深海。

With limited resources in the deep sea, many  species feed on animal waste, called marine snow, that rains down from the shallows.

由于深海资源有限， 许多物种以动物排泄物为食，这些排泄物被称为海雪， 从浅水处降下。

The technical term for this is marine snow, since it mostly comprises microscopic or particulate sized debris, since most of  upper reaches are indeed plankton or krill.

它的专业术语是海洋雪，因为它主要由微观或颗粒大小的碎片组成，因为大部分上游确实是浮游生物或磷虾。

At deep--sea trenches, organisms have adapted to the immense pressures and rely on the 'marine snow'-- organic matter that drifts down from the ocean's surface-- for sustenance.

在深海海沟中，生物体已经适应了巨大的压力，并依靠“海洋雪”（从海洋表面漂流下来的有机物）来维持生计。

Sponges are common, and can grow to over  a metre in diameter, as are starfish that scavenge upon the bottom for any marine snow that might  have made it through all the ocean layers above.

海绵很常见， 直径可长到一米多，海星也是如此， 它们在海底寻找可能穿过上层海洋层的海雪。