With its passengers bundled against the arctic wind blowing off the Beaufort Sea, the small boat speeds smoothly across the lagoon.
迎着吹过北福海的北极寒风，随着匆忙前进的游客，小船快速平稳地穿过环礁湖。Instead, marine biologists ply the area, studying the atoll's slow comeback and trying to help it along.
海洋生物学家会巡逻此区，研究环礁的缓慢复育过程，帮助生态回复。Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys ate shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea.
一些男孩最近继承了一个海岛，他们坐着船朝着它进发，可是遇到了海难，流放在没人居住的环礁。But it's the resort's private isle in an azure lagoon that sets the scene for a romantic candlelit dinner.
这个旅游胜地蔚蓝的环礁湖的私人岛屿为一个浪漫的烛光晚餐提供了陪衬。Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon .
睡意笼罩着他，就象缠绵脑际的蜃楼幻影正在同五光十色的环礁湖景致一比高低。Integrity of the atolls , including the reefs around the ring, the middle of the lagoon and diving in the lagoon of several coral islands.
发育完整的环礁，包括四周的礁环、中间的潜水泻湖和泻湖里的几个珊瑚岛组成。Now, coast guard vessels enforce a fishing ban within the lagoon and within a 12-nautical-mile radius around the atoll.
如今，巡逻船明令禁止在潟湖和环礁半径12海浬范围内捕鱼。Strong winds, a dwindling supply of food, and a broken water maker meant she had to change course and head to the atoll of Tarawa instead.
强风，减少了食物供应，一破水生产商意味着她不得不改变路线，前往的塔拉瓦环礁代替。The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest .
环礁湖上的轻风一阵紧接一阵，就象追逐着自己尾巴的小猫，夺路越过平台，窜进森林。