Areas of dead coral are usually colonized rapidly by algae and often are later colonized by sponges and soft corals.

一片区域的珊瑚死去后，那里通常很快就会被海藻占领，之后又会被海绵和软珊瑚占领。

Sponges have a very "lazy" lifestyle, with no means of moving themselves around.

海绵有一种非常“懒惰”的生活方式，它们无法移动自己。

Sponges were once thought to be plants but they are actually simple sea animals.

海绵曾经被认为是植物，但实际上它们是简单的海洋生物。

Indeed, some nudibranchs store up toxins from their diet of poisonous sponges, making the slug-like creatures themselves deadly to predators.

事实上，一些裸鳃亚目动物会从它们的食物中储存毒素，使得这种类似鼻涕虫的生物对捕食者来说是致命的。

Latrunculin is a toxin produced by sponges.

拉春库林是一种由海绵产生的毒素。

Blast your sponges in the microwave.

把纱布放到微波炉里加热。

Time sponges out all trace of truth.

时间会抹去真理的一切痕迹。

Surgical sponges that know where they are.

手术海绵知道自己在哪里？

Used sponges harbor a shudder-inducing variety of bacteria.

用过的海绵是可怕生物的避难所——包括各种细菌。

He studies giant barrel sponges growing on coral reefs in the Caribbean.

他主要研究生长于加勒比海珊瑚礁上的圆桶海绵。

Brian eno: Certainly working with other people sponges up your time enormously.

Brian Eno：当然了，与别人合作，会像海绵一样显著吸干你的时间。

Sponges are notorious for being the germiest item in your kitchen, if not your house.

如果不是自己的房子，则海绵是厨房中细菌最多的物品。

Joe Pawlik: As the coral populations decline, sponges obviously have less competition.

乔·鲍里克：随着珊瑚数量的下降，海绵的竞争压力减小。

More than 90% of Permiangenera of sponges, corals and brachiopods vanished in the extinction.

高过百分之九十海绵类、珊瑚类以及腕足类生物在大灭绝中消失了。

The solitary reef fish often travels aloneor in pairs and favors a diet of sponges and sea squirts.

这种独居的礁鱼常常独自或成对游荡，喜欢吃海绵和海鞘。

But we didn't work my pregnancy into the story lines of 'Seinfeld.' I had my big VAT of sponges.

不过我没有把自己的怀孕加入到‘宋飞正传’的故事情节中，因为我宽宽的衣裙把什么都遮住了。

Ruth and I started bickering after she bought sponges-not a necessity in my book-at the 99-cent store.

露丝和我大吵了一架，因为她在99美分商店了买了海绵擦，而在我的字典里它不是必需品。

Back then, most women were forced to use literal rags, sponges or a whole mess of nothing during their periods.

当时的妇女在经期都被迫使用粗麻布，海面或者完全不管来处理。

Nearby was an empty Mason jar labelled "Human Sweat" and a bunch of yellow sponges in a plastic bag marked "Human Bait."

它旁边放着一个拧着金属盖的玻璃瓶，上面标着“人汗”，再旁边是一个标着“蚊饵”的塑料袋，里面放着一块黄色的海绵。

This applies to detergents, bath products, cleaning sponges, and household cleaning products like vinegar and baking soda.

这适用于洗涤剂、浴室用品、清洁海绵以及类似于醋和小苏打的日常清洁用品。

Pigs are flu sponges, capable of contracting both bird and human viruses that can jump across the species barrier, Richt says.

里希特说，猪是流感海绵，能够跨跃物种界线吸取人类和禽类的流感病毒。

There is nothing more annoying than just getting started only to find you've run out of all purpose cleaner, vinegar or sponges.

没有什么比刚开始工作就发现你需要的清洁工具例如吸尘器、醋或者海绵都用完了更让人闹心的事。

Maybe you prefer sponges to forks, but do you really feel so strongly about it that you need to join sponges RULE - forks DONT!?

比起叉子也许你更喜欢海绵，但是非得加入到SPONGES RULE - FORKS DONT这个组里不可么？

Unlike sponging, however, in which dolphins use sponges to find fishes hiding in mud, conching isn't yet widespread in Shark Bay.

然而，与海豚利用海绵捕捉藏在泥中鱼类的海绵捕食法不用，海螺捕食法在鲨鱼湾分布并不广泛。

And in a much-celebrated first documented example of tool use in Marine mammals, a family of dolphins in Australia USES sponges to hunt.

有关澳大利亚一个海豚家族使用海绵捕猎的非常著名的例子，最先记录了海洋哺乳动物使用工具的情况。

They will protect species including sponges, sea squirts, corals, shellfish, and more exotic creatures such as the colourful cuckoo wrasse fish.

这15个地点将保护包括海绵动物、海鞘、珊瑚、甲壳类动物以及其他外来生物如波纹鱼(cuckoo wrasse)在内的生物种类。