Day 116: The Tiny Cleaners of Baikal
On a research boat on Lake Baikal, a student intern helps a hydrobiologist take water samples.
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Dialogue
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A
Игорь Викторович, взятые пробы я подписал. А почему здесь вода такая прозрачная?
Igor Viktorovich, I've labelled the samples we took. Why is the water here so clear?
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B
Благодаря эпишуре. Это такой рачок, чуть больше миллиметра, он Байкал и чистит.
Thanks to epischura. It's a tiny crustacean, just over a millimetre long, and it's what cleans Baikal.
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A
Такой крошечный рачок чистит целое озеро? Не может быть!
A crustacean that tiny cleans a whole lake? No way!
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B
Их там миллиарды, и работают они круглый год. В результате вода чистая как слеза.
There are billions of them, and they work all year round. As a result, the water is crystal clear.
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A
Надо же, какие труженики! Ой, Игорь Викторович, я, кажется, термометр за борт уронил...
Wow, what hard workers! Oh, Igor Viktorovich, I think I've dropped the thermometer overboard...
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B
Ну вот, теперь рачкам и его чистить. Хорошо хоть, запасной есть, в синем ящике.
Well, now the crustaceans will have to clean that too. Good thing there's a spare, in the blue box.
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Сейчас принесу. Зато теперь на дне Байкала лежит мой личный вклад в науку.
I'll get it now. At least my personal contribution to science is now lying at the bottom of Baikal.
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