huo shan lie dao 13

Song 火山列岛 13
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.511] A single fish can chew its way through a staggering five tonnes of coral a year.
[00:07.357] Smaller parrotfish, colourful cousins of the bumphead,are also at it.
[00:13.597] But they all give a little back
[00:16.351] as the ground-up coral comes out as sand.
[00:21.036] This is island building of a different kind.
[00:24.691] So some of the Pacific's most elegant beaches
[00:27.399] have sprung from a less than stylish birth.
[00:30.338] Above the water, time seems to stand still.
[00:34.200] But the Pacific islands are always changing, if slowly.
[00:39.157] This is Bora Bora,
[00:42.112] a volcano in what could be called "late middle age".
[00:45.885] The sloping flanks have slipped further into the sea,
[00:49.001] pushing the reef away from the shore.
[00:51.962] A lagoon is formed.
[00:54.317] It's a patchwork of coral outcrops and sand.
[00:58.091] Protected from the powerful waves of the surrounding ocean,
[01:02.243] all kinds of animals take refuge in these calm, shallow waters.