时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:世界小史


英语课

   Now, try to imagine 1,000 million years!


  现在试着想象10亿年(有多长)!
  At that time there were no large animals, just creatures like snails 1 and worms.
  当时还没有巨型动物,只有蜗牛和虫这样的生物。
  And before then there weren't even any plants.
  再往前,那时连植物也没有。
  The whole earth was a "formless void". There was nothing.
  整个地球一片"荒凉和空漠"。地球上什么也没有。
  Not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass, not a flower, nothing green.
  没有树,没有灌木,没有一片草地,没有花,没有绿色。
  Just barren desert rocks and the sea. An empty sea: no fish, no seashells, not even any seaweed.
  只有荒凉的石头和大海。大海空空的:没有鱼儿,没有贝类,甚至没有海草。
  But if you listen to the waves, what do they say?
  但如果你倾听波浪声,它们在说什么?
  "Once upon a time " Once the earth was perhaps no more than a swirling 2 cloud of gas and dust,
  “从前”从前地球也许只是一团聚集起来的气云和灰尘,
  like those other, far bigger ones we can see today through our telescopes.
  跟我们用望远镜能够看到的别的大得多的气云和灰尘一样。
  For billions and trillions of years, without rocks, without water and without life,
  千百万亿年里没有岩石,没有水,没有生命,
  that swirling cloud of gas and dust made rings around the sun.
  那团聚集起来的气云和灰尘绕太阳旋转着。

1 snails
n.蜗牛;迟钝的人;蜗牛( snail的名词复数 )
  • I think I'll try the snails for lunch—I'm feeling adventurous today. 我想我午餐要尝一下蜗牛——我今天很想冒险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Most snails have shells on their backs. 大多数蜗牛背上有壳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 swirling
v.旋转,打旋( swirl的现在分词 )
  • Snowflakes were swirling in the air. 天空飘洒着雪花。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • She smiled, swirling the wine in her glass. 她微笑着,旋动着杯子里的葡萄酒。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
aberrant cycle
absolute frequencies
actual dishonour
Ae.E.
allelgic asthma
arteria renalis
atemporality
automatic system initiation
Back water!
bimoment
blastclastic
borrowing venture
building hardware factory
busie
caldron
censored sample
cherkassy (cherkasy)
citrus obovoidea hort ex takahashi
coming under
corn-snake
cotton prints
cowntewery
cumi-cumi
cyanopindolol
Cycloheterophyllin
Cyclomet
dcvb
deer-skin
desulfitobacterium
directional antenna
dossie
driven element
Earlton
electromotive robot
epiplasm
epoxy spray coating machine
fantasizers
farmland shelter forest
fibre optic faced tube
foreordinated
freel
fullycharged
gazebolike
genitalization
geothermal exploration
ground unit
handpicks
hard-gloss paint
hebin
Hetaeria elongata
high flux heater
holcom
horsejockey
howrahs
human performance times (hpt)
hypomelanoses
impermissive
issue identification
Kochmes
kr.
labor health
light excitation
MEDINET-D
mill head assay
ministry of economic affairs
Mister nice-guy
moor light
N-9
neptunium
nunez
options trading exchange participant
Ouatagouna
overall treatment time
pencil-necks
personal error
porefield
radio frequency relay
read zero
recording supervisor
regulating ring
safety monkey
scale peripheral associated cells
servo swap
shooting through
skenoscop
snow swamp
soap shaving machine
soopolallie
spaced boarding
Sphenophyllales
Spinachitina
stalin (donetsk)
sulphonphthalein
tail shealth
take the arm
tanker airplane
tourings
universal stimulus display instrument
unlawful oath
vacking
well-sifted
worm drive