barrier reef

基本解释

Australia's Coral Sea, near the Great Barrier Reef, is one of the last remaining tropical wilderness areas in the world.
在澳洲的珊瑚海大堡礁的附近，还残存着这世界上仅剩的热带野生动物活动区域之一。
A report this week suggests that the growth of coral on the Great Barrier Reef, off Australia, has slowed by 13% since 1990.
本周的一份报告显示，澳大利亚海岸大堡礁上珊瑚的生长速度自1990年以来已经下降了13%。
Assist a team of scientists in their work with tiger sharks in the far north of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef through Marine Encounters.
通过海上偶然遭遇，在澳大利亚遥远北方的大堡礁协助一组从事研究虎鲨工作的科学家。

Some places like Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Montana's Glacier National Park are threatened by the effects of climate change.
This isn't scuba diving now off the Great Barrier Reef, or something like that.
不是现在大堡礁海岸边的潜水运动,或者其他类似的活动
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Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

Every place you look, from corals in great barrier reef, to polar bear tracks.
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an area of coral (= a substance like rock formed by small sea creatures) just above or just below the surface of the sea, that is close to land but separated from it by an area of water

a long narrow coral reef near and lying parallel to the shore, separated from it by deep water