英语释义

1. seabed

2. the ground that is at the bottom of the sea

片语

sea bottom海底；海床

seafloor collapse海底滑塌

Seafloor bathymetry海底地形测量

silty seafloor粉砂质海底

seafloor valley海底谷

seafloor hydrothermal海底热液

seafloor parameters海底声参数

seafloor model海底模型

seafloor reverberation海底混响

seafloor scour海底沖刷

英汉例句

• walruses frequently use ice floes to rest while they digest a meal, usually consisting of shellfish pried from the seafloor using their long tusks and strong lips.

  海象在消化食物时，经常利用浮冰休息。它们食物一般由用象牙和有力的嘴唇从海底撬出的贝类食物组成。

• sea urchins brandish their spines on the seafloor near the channel islands. scientists recently discovered that the eyeless invertebrates 「see」 by detecting light with their spines.

  海胆在海峡群岛附近的海底挥舞着它们的棘突。科学家最近发现这些没有眼睛的无脊椎动物可以用它们的刺上的探测光来看东西。

• the researchers based their study on ice age land and ocean surface temperature obtained by examining ices cores, bore holes, seafloor sediments and other factors.

  研究人员将他们的研究基于冰河时期陆地与海洋的表面温度，通过检查冰核心，鉆井，海底沉积物和其他因素。

• eggs and larvae born on the seafloor rise to the surface and ride the ocean circulator belts—such as the loop current—far and wide, she said.

  在海底出生的卵和幼虫上浮到海水表面，随着宽广而长远的海洋循环带漂流——比如说海湾地区的环流。

• seafloor mining beyond countries’ territorial waters is regulated by the international seabed authority, set up under the united nations convention on the law of the sea.

  国际海底管理局监管那些不在领海之内的海底矿产。它是在联合国大会海洋法下设立的一个国际机构。

• the usf team found that not only has oil settled to the seafloor further east than originally thought, but it has done so at levels toxic to marine life.

  南佛大学调查小组发现泄漏原油不仅在比预想的范围更东的海域沉降到海底，而且沉降过程中原油处于对海洋生物有害的毒性水平。

• along with haida heritage site, the reserve is the first protected area to extend from the seafloor to the mountaintops.

  连同海达遗址在内，这个自然保护区是第一个从海底延伸到山顶的保护地区。

• others argue that collecting samples from the seafloor is easier when a person is in the pilot’s seat, and that no machine can replicate the panoramic scope of human vision.

  其他科学家认为，如果由人坐在驾驶位上就更容易从海底收集标本，而且没有机器可以复制像人类视野这样的全景视角范围。

• in fact, only about 2 percent of the seafloor lies below 20,000 feet, in deep, muddy trenches.

  实际上，只有2％的海底区域在海面20,000英尺以下，那个地带都是幽深阴暗的海沟。

• but when threatened, the animal will clamp down tightly on the seafloor to protect its soft underbelly.

  但当其感受到威胁时，这种动物会紧紧地贴覆在海底巖石上，以保护其柔软的腹部。

• here, volcanic activity beneath the earth’s crust sends sulfur-rich plumes spewing up from gashes in the seafloor into the ocean, where the plumes support unique ecosystems of animals and microbes.

  在这里，地壳以下的火山活动将富含硫磺的烟尘从海底的裂缝中喷出，这些烟尘维系着一些特殊的动物和微生物赖以生存的生态系统。

• basalt is also found on the seafloor surrounding most continents, as well as inland.

  在环绕大多数大陆的海底及内陆地区也能找到玄武巖。

• pound for pound, seafloor ore also has more gold, zinc, and silver than land deposits do.

  同理，海底的矿石中也含有比陆地上更多的金，锌和银。

• by the time it was recovered from the seafloor near the greek island of antikythera in 1902, it had been reduced to 81 rusted, clumped-together fragments.

  待到它在1902年于希腊附近的安提凯希拉岛外海底被发现之时，它已经破碎成81坨生锈粘连在一起的碎片。

• seafloor mining might therefore be less destructive than mining on land, which brings such not-exactly-benign consequences as mountaintop removal, mercury pollution, and destruction of watersheds.

  因此，海底矿物开采比起在陆地上进行的开采，破坏性就小了许多。 陆上开采可能造成诸如削平山头，水银污染和水域破坏的恶性后果。

• no new rights are given over fish or other creatures in the water column, but living creatures on or below the seafloor that are immobile 「at the harvestable stage」 are treated like minerals.

  对于水层的鱼和其他生物，现在还没有新的规定，但是对于那些生长在海底上面或下面的生物，在「丰收季节」是不会移动的，它们也是一种矿藏。

• he said that scientists are now studying below the seafloor near deepsea volcanic vents, and at earth’s icy poles, for microbes that might be analogs of extraterrestrial life.

  他说，科学家们目前正在对深海火山口附近的海底以下及地球冰封的极点进行研究，以求找到可能与地外生命类似的微生物。

• japan plans to test extraction methods to obtain methane hydrates from the seafloor southwest of tokyo.

  日本计划测试开采方法，以从东京西南的海底获得甲烷水合物。