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Tucked away in the United Arab Emirate's northernmost region,
在阿拉伯聯合酋長國的北部地區(qū)，
a very delicate experiment is underway to bring some luster back to the region's pearl industry.
正在進行一個奇妙的實驗，將會給該地區(qū)的珍珠行業(yè)增添色彩。
Since 2005, one company has been cultivating pearls commercially, the first such modern operation of its kind in the Gulf.
自2005年起，有一個公司開始商業(yè)性的養(yǎng)殖珍珠，在海灣地區(qū)，這還是第一次進行現代化的操作。
"Well, for thousands of years, the whole region depended and, depended totally on pearl fishing.
“幾千年倆，整個地區(qū)都依靠采集珍珠。
And within a few years, let's say that two decades, because of the discovery of oil and the invention of pearl culture, the whole industry collapsed."
近幾年，或者說，近20年來，由于發(fā)現了石油，整個珍珠養(yǎng)殖也就崩潰了。”
Al-Suwaidi says that the UAE is the first Gulf nation to renew pearl cultivation, and for good reason.
Al-Suwaidi說，阿拉伯聯合酋長國是海灣地區(qū)第一個重興珍珠養(yǎng)殖業(yè)的國家，而且動機很好。
His stock of over 100,000 pearl-producing mollusks are kept in pans and painstakingly cleaned and tended,
他儲存了100，000能夠生產珍珠的軟體動物，這些軟體動物被養(yǎng)殖在平底鍋里，勤奮的繁殖，
increasing their potential to grow and produce large high-quality pearls.
增加他們生長和產生大的高質的珍珠的潛力。
Oysters are a very delicate species of mollusk whose lives and prosperities are measures of the environmental conditions they inhabit.
牡蠣是軟體動物中非常奇妙的一個種類，他們的生活和習性取決于他們居住的環(huán)境。
Al-Suwaidi's business partner, Imura Daiji, says the link between the pearl and its environment is very important.
Al-Suwaidi的商業(yè)伙伴Imura Daiji說，珍珠和環(huán)境之間的聯系非常重要。
The bigger and healthier the pearl oyster, the larger the pearl it can produce.
珍珠牡蠣越大，越健康，產生的珍珠也越大。
"Oyster pearl cultivation and the environment is a very very deep relationship."
“牡蠣珍珠養(yǎng)殖和環(huán)境之間有著非常非常密切的關系。”
The untouched quality of this protected ecosystem has allowed him
“這個不可接觸的受保護的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)
to see a faster span of production time than he had seen in Japan, the birthplace of the industry.
使他養(yǎng)殖的時間比在日本見到的時間要短。日本是珍珠養(yǎng)殖業(yè)的發(fā)源地。”
In years past, pearl divers would plunge without apparatus more than 100 feet beneath the sea,
過去，珍珠采集者在沒有裝備的情況下必須潛入海面以下100多英尺的海水里尋找珍珠，
making as many as 30 or more dives a day with only an estimated…
每天要潛水30多次，估計只能采到……
