We are coral atolls, and corals are dying.

我们国家是珊瑚环礁岛屿，而珊瑚正在死去。

And today, the closest I've come is visiting remote atolls in the western Indian Ocean.

到目前为止，我去过的 最类似的地方是一些位于西印度洋的偏远环礁。

They reckon that a turbine on such an atoll would run for about 75% of the time.

他们估计，在这样一个环礁上的涡轮机大约有75%的时间是运转的。

Lots of Pacific islands are atolls.

许多太平洋岛屿都是环礁。

We're back on the main atoll of Tarawa.

我们现在回到塔拉瓦岛的主要环礁。

If you sail past an atoll, it's only a tree high.

如果你绕过珊瑚礁 它就只有一棵树那么高。

The nation consists of 33 such atolls spread out between Hawaii and Australia.

这个国家由33个这样的环礁组成，分布在夏威夷和澳大利亚之间。

The people of Tarawa have already planted more than 50,000 mangroves on the beaches of the atoll.

塔拉瓦人已经在环礁的海滩上种植了5万多棵红树林。

The narrow Unprotected atolls in the South Pacific are on average only two metres above sea level.

这座南太平洋狭窄的无保护环礁平均海拔仅2米。

An " atoll" (atoll) is a small island formed by a hard substance called coral.

“环礁”（atoll）是由一种叫做珊瑚的坚硬物质形成的小岛。