Mudskippers are not the only animals to take advantage of the mudflat buffet.

弹涂鱼并不是唯一利用滩涂享用自助餐的动物。

The mudflats always present different features and unique local characteristics in the different seasons.

它一年四季的滩涂都会呈现出不同的风韵和别致的地域特色。

At dusk, the Fishermen of Xiapu County begin to spread the fishing nets on the mudflats.

傍晚时分霞浦县的小港湾里渔民将一张张渔网平整的撒在滩涂上。

They settled on the mudflats of Chongming Island and Nanhui tidal flat near Shanghai.

他们定居在上海附近的崇明岛和南汇滩涂的泥滩上。

And at the other end are species like mudskippers that nonchalantly hop around mudflats for days at a time.

在另一端是像弹涂鱼这样的物种，它们一次可以在泥滩周围漫不经心地跳跃数天。

The meltwater deposits thousands of tons of nutrient-rich silt into the delta each year, building mudflats 600 feet deep.

融水每年将数千吨富含营养的淤泥沉积到三角洲中，形成 600 英尺深的泥滩。

The mudflats here have witnessed tens of millions of years of history and experienced countless tides rising and falling, forming a unique ecological landscape.

这里的滩涂历经了千万年时光的洗礼和无数次的潮起潮落形成了自己独特的原生态景观。

And this is the lifecycle on the saltflat, all of which we call extremophiles, and which eke out an existence in a mudflat like this.

就是繁衍在这些贫瘠土地之中的生命我们所称的这些嗜极生物很好的生存于这样的泥滩上。

On the train out to meet Spencer, I had marvelled at the Pitsea horizon, a nonsensical Thames estuary hillside towering over the mudflats, a Brecon Beacon of waste.

在去见斯宾塞的火车上，我对皮茨西亚的所见之景感到惊叹，它是一个荒谬的景象：泰晤士河河口的山坡高耸于泥滩之上，仿佛是垃圾堆起来的布雷肯比肯斯山。

What you see when you glance at this environment are a bunch of what appear to be tunnels or mounds here, and these are made by the gases produced by the microbes living in this mudflat area.

观察这里你能发现什么？看起来是很多这样的沟壑与土堆却是由生活着的微生物排出的大量气体所造成，而这原本是平整的土地。