Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.

下降了的海平面使白令海底的浅大陆架露了出来。

The frequency of whale fish theft in the Bering Sea's continental shelf is increasing.

白令海大陆架上的鲸鱼盗窃案发生得越来越频繁。

Take the case of the Alaska Ranger, a 184-foot trawler that sank in the Bering Sea in 2008.

以阿拉斯加流浪者号为例，这艘长达56米的拖网渔船于2008年沉没在白令海。

But was there one major wave of migration across the Bering Strait into the Americas, or several?

但是有没有一次或几次大移民浪潮是穿过白令海峡到达美洲的呢？

From this evidence it was deduced that there had been three major waves of migration across the Bering Strait.

从这个证据可以推断，横跨白令海峡的大型移民潮曾经有过三次。

The rivers feed into the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska — cold, nutrient-rich waters which support tens of millions of seabirds, and over 400 species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and mollusks.

这些河流汇入白令海和阿拉斯加湾这片寒冷而又营养丰富的水域，在这片水域里生活着数千万只海鸟、400多种鱼类、贝类、甲壳类和软体动物。

Bering was a confirmed atheist.

白令是一位铁杆无神论者。

Alaska is just across the Bering Strait from Russia.

阿拉斯加穿过白令海峡与俄罗斯相连。

"They experience it but they reject it," Bering says.

“他们体验过，但是他们拒绝承认，”白令说。

Bering is one of the academics who are trying to figure that out.

白令是试图找出答案的学者之一。

These supernatural agents, Bering adds, might have very different names.

白令补充说，这些超自然的代表，可能有非常不同的名称。

Bering has a credo, a truth he says he's learned after years of studying this stuff.

白令有一个信条，他说经过多年的研究以后，他知道了一个道理。

Dr Bering measured the amount of time it took to press the space bar on each occasion.

Bering博士测算每次每个人要花多少时间才会按下空格键。

There are literally thousands of names, but according to Bering they all have the same effect.

尽管字面上有数以千计的不同名字，但据白令说，它们在法力上不分高下。

A Cable TV show, Deadliest Catch, on the Discovery Network, shows real crab fishers in the Bering Sea.

在‘发现网络’的一个有线电视节目，《致命捕捞》，说的就是白令海上真实的捕蟹渔民。

The Bering Glacier, about 10 km from the Gulf of Alaska, is the largest glacier in North America.

源于阿拉斯加湾的白令冰川（Bering Glacier）绵延10公里，是北美最大的冰川。

The question that Bering sought to answer was this: Which group of children was least likely to cheat?

白令要回答的问题是：哪一组孩子最不容易作弊？

Bering and his siblings closed her door and went downstairs, hoping they might somehow get some sleep.

疲惫不堪的白令和他的兄弟姐妹们关上了母亲卧室的房门，走下楼去，希望他们或多或少地能睡上一个囫囵觉。

I first came to North American in prehistoric times when I crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Eurasia.

在史前时期，我从欧亚大陆穿越白令海峡、走过陆地、桥第一次来到了北美。

Bering remembers waking to the tinkle of these bells, a small but distinct sound in an otherwise silent house.

白令记得自己是被这些叮当声唤醒的。在一间寂静的屋子里，风铃的声音柔和而清晰。

Why is it, Bering wondered, that even a determined skeptic could not stop himself from perceiving the supernatural?

白令想知道，为什么一个坚定的无神论者，居然无法阻止自己感知超自然的东西？

The four fishermen in Schroder's raft were the only members of the 11-person crew to make it out of the Bering Sea alive.

卡特迈号上的十一名船员中，只有施罗德救生筏上的四人从寒冷的白令海成功脱险。

Twenty-nine active craters cover the peninsula's shore, which is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Bering and Okhotsk Seas.

29个活跃的火山口覆盖了半岛的海岸，那里为太平洋、白令海峡和鄂霍次克海所包围。

Huntington pointed out that action to protect fish and fisheries in the Bering Sea donut hole came about only after overfishing had taken place;

汉丁顿说过度捕捞行为发生后，白令海空心海域才有了保护鱼类和管理捕捞的行动。

After beginning in northern British Columbia and flowing through Yukon in Canada, the Yukon River crosses Alaska before emptying into the Bering Sea.

育空河发源于加拿大北部的卑斯省，它流经阿拉斯加，最终注入白令海。

The flight across the huge width of Russia was difficult. He made several stops for gas and a few hours rest before flying across the Bering Sea to Alaska.

这次飞越广袤的俄罗斯是非常困难的，在他飞越白令海峡到阿拉斯加之前，他停了好几次，以便补充燃料。

The blind variety of legless lizard likely originated in the Americas, but some 55 million years ago they slithered across the Bering Strait and into Asia.

这种无视力，无脚的蜥蜴可能源于美洲，但其在五千五百万年前跨越白令海峡到达亚洲。

"A theory of mind is something that even 4-year-olds have," says Jesse Bering, who directs the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Belfast University.

贝尔法斯特大学的认知与文化研究所所长杰西·白令说：“心情推测是一种4岁的人都会的能力。”