Since this time, Charles has visited the North Pacific gyre many times.

从那时起，查尔斯已经多次去北太平洋环。

This area is part of the North Pacific gyre.

这一区域是北太平洋环的一部分。

Plastic waste sits in places like the North Pacific gyre.

塑料垃圾堆积在北太平洋环等地方。

Light beacons will alert the two dozen ships which cross the gyre each week to its presence.

灯光信标将提醒每周经过该环的20艘船只，该设备的存在。

After a time, much of it goes to areas like the North Pacific gyre.

过了一段时间，其中大部分都向像北太平洋环这样的地区。

A gyre is a big whirlpool that traps and moves the plastic in circles.

环是指让垃圾被困后呈环形运动的大漩涡。

Finding waste is nothing new in the North Pacific gyre.

在北太平洋环地区发现垃圾并不是什么新鲜事。

In the past, natural wastes in the gyre have biodegraded.

在过去，环中的天然垃圾已经被生物降解。

Dr Ryan's particular interest was where all the litter came from before it was swept into the gyre.

让瑞恩特别感兴趣的是，在被卷入环圈前，所有这些垃圾都是来自何处。

The winds push the ocean beneath them into the same rotating gyres.

风将它们下方的海洋推入相同的旋转环中。

The North Pacific gyre is our next stop.

AZUZ：北太平洋环是我们的下一站。

Large parts of beaufort gyre now are ice-free in summer.

- 现在波弗特环的大部分地区在夏季都没有结冰。

If you're sitting becalmed in an ocean gyre, it feels like you're a painted ship on a painted ocean, nothing's happening.

如果你静静坐在海洋环之中，感觉就像身在画中静止不动 相安无事。

And then there's the beaufort gyre, which is about 800 kilometers across and it's this big bowl that circulates clockwise.

然后是波弗特环，它大约有 800 公里宽，就是这个顺时针旋转的大碗状环。

It takes about two years for water parcels to make their way, all the way around the perimeter of the gyre.

水包需要大约两年的时间才能绕过环的周边。

The system can do little about plastic that has fragmented into microscopic particles, but these make up just 8% of plastic in the gyre.

该系统对那些已经分解为微型颗粒的塑料收效甚微，但这类塑料仅占环垃圾的8%。

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

“啧， 滑溜溜的脚趾在河里打转和嬉戏：所有的妖怪都是波罗戈夫，而蛤蟆的老鼠则在外面。

Winds around a persistent high pressure system drive ocean currents, creating a vortex, known as a gyre, causing debris to collect in a central location.

持续高压系统周围的风驱动洋， 形成一个称为环的涡，导致碎片聚集在中心位置。

But in recent years, there's been more ice melting and that critical beaufort gyre that used to be a nursery for ice has instead become a graveyard.

但近年来，冰融化得更多了，曾经是冰的苗圃的关键波弗特环反而变成了墓地。

[Maiya] Ice builds within the beaufort gyre each year, growing before it eventually exits the Arctic through the Fram Strait, where it can be pushed as far south as Southeast Greenland.

- [Maiya] 冰每年都在波弗特环内形成，在它最终通过弗拉姆海峡离开北极之前不断增长，在那里它可以被推向南至格陵兰岛东南部。