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An oceanic wanderer, a mola mola, stops by to be cleaned by reef fish, at the sea mount edge.
海洋流浪者翻車魚，來到海邊讓珊瑚魚給它打掃衛生。
Butterfly-fish pluck string-like parasites from it's flanks.
蝴蝶魚排成一隊忙著吃翻車魚身上的線體寄生蟲。
The huge fish lives on jellyfish over a thousand meters down
翻車魚以超過1000米深的深海水母為生，
where the water is twenty degrees colder
那里的水溫比這里低20度，
so, a brushup near the surface, allows it to warm up before making more deep water forays.
翻車魚可以在下次深海攻擊前上來暖和一下。
The summit of this volcanic mountain rises above the surface of the sea.
這個火山已經處于海面之上。
It's Ascension Island, eight hundred miles from any other land,
阿森松島距最近的大陸800英里
a welcome vital haven for long distance travelers.
是長途旅行者們生死攸關的避難所。
Frigatebirds spend months continuously airborne at sea
軍艦鳥可以在海上持續待幾個月，
but at nesting time, they come to Ascension from all over the ocean.
不過到了筑巢的時候，它就從海洋各處飛回到阿森松島。
The island's barren slopes of volcanic ash and lava, might seem to offer perfectly good sites for a nest,
一個充滿了火山灰和火山巖的不毛之地，卻提供了一個筑巢的好地方，
but the frigates choose an even more isolated site
不過軍艦鳥要挑選偏僻的地點。
