Thanks to the work of polyps, a slow but steady upheaval will someday connect these islands to each other.

由于珊瑚这种腔肠所起的作用，造成地面缓慢地，但连续地上升，因此，将来定有天会把这些小岛连接起来。

Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.

人们在寒武纪群落发现了王国的主集群，包括腕足、腔肠、棘皮、软体和脊索（脊椎进化的分支）。