With no alternatives available, he was forced to bring coral skeletons and Latin taxonomy classifications with him on diving expeditions in order to identify via comparison the live contents of the reefs.
他只好把幾百個拉丁學名和珊瑚骨骼外型硬生生背下來，然後再到海裡一個個去比對，逐漸認識那些活生生的珊瑚。