万物简史 第490期:多灾多难的生命进程(10)

Dinosaurs, whales, birds, humans, even fish all are tetrapods, which clearly suggests they come from a single common ancestor. 恐龙、鲸、鸟、人甚至鱼都是四足动物。这显然表明，它们出自一个共同的祖先。 The clue to th

万物简史 第488期:多灾多难的生命进程(8)

By combining their isotope findings with other fossil residuespollen levels and so on, 把对同位素测量的结果和能够说明其他情况（如花粉浓度等）的别的化石残留物结合起来， scientists can, with considerable confiden

万物简史 第487期:多灾多难的生命进程(7)

And how, you may reasonably wonder, can scientists know what oxygen levels were like hundreds of millions of years ago? 你也许有理由想知道，科学家们怎么会知道几亿年以前的氧气浓度？ The answer lies in a slightly obscure b

万物简史 第486期:多灾多难的生命进程(6)

So competition was fierce. 于是，竞争很激烈。 There was also an omnivorous and unsettling new type of predator on the scene, 而且，出现了一种新的无所不吃的、令人不安的捕食者。 one so perfectly designed for attack tha

万物简史 第485期:多灾多难的生命进程(5)

For all the trouble they take to assemble and preserve themselves, species crumple and die remarkably routinely. 尽管物种们费了九牛二虎之力聚集起来保存自己，但它们经常崩溃和死亡。 And the more complex they get, the mo

万物简史 第489期:多灾多难的生命进程(9)

Then, as now, dragonflies could cruise at up to thirty-five miles an hour, 当时和现在一样，蜻蜓能以每小时50多公里的速度飞行， instantly stop, hover, fly backwards, and lift far more proportionately than any human flying machin

诗翁彼豆故事集 第21期:兔子巴比蒂和她的呱呱树桩(5)

Albus Dumbledore on Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump 阿不思邓布利多评《兔子巴比蒂和她的呱呱树桩》 The story of Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump is, in many ways, the most real of Beedle's tales, in that the magic

诗翁彼豆故事集 第22期:兔子巴比蒂和她的呱呱树桩(6)

(Note. 2: Professor McGonagall, Headmisrress of Hogwarts, has asked me to make clear that she became an Animagus merely as a result of her extensive researches into all fields of Transfiguration, and that she has never used the ability to turn into a

英语听书《白鲸记》第887期

Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness; 不过，正是他这种有点可怕的迟钝，就不免使他象个十分不近人情的人； yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an ol

英语听书《白鲸记》第906期

Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye. 魁魁格伏在吊铺上，神色专注地久久望着那口棺材。 He then called for his harpoon, had the wooden stock drawn from it, 然后，他叫人拿来他的

英语听书《白鲸记》第898期

Who's there? hearing the footstep at the door, but not turning round to it. On deck! Begone! 谁呀？听到了门边的脚步声，可是，没有回过头来。上甲板去！滚蛋，滚蛋！ Captain Ahab mistakes; it is I. 亚哈船长弄错啦，

英语听书《白鲸记》第899期

But look ye, the only real owner of anything is its commander; and hark ye, my conscience is in this ship's keel.On deck! 可是，你听着，唯一真正的船东就是这艘船的船长；记住，我的良心就在这艘船的龙骨里。上甲板去

英语听书《白鲸记》第900期

But, mastering his emotion, he half calmly rose, and as he quitted the cabin, paused for an instant and said: 但是，他控制着自己的情绪，相当泰然地起身走了，不过，他离开船长室时，又停了一停，说道： Thou hast

英语听书《白鲸记》第901期

It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, 也许他心头忽发善念；或许不过是一种慎重将事的权谋，因为在当时的情况下， imperiously forbade the slightest symptom o

英语听书《白鲸记》第902期

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. 这艘头重脚轻的大船就象个装着满脑袋亚里士多德学说的枵腹的学者。 Well was it that the Typhoons did not visit them then. 还好，当时台风没

英语听书《白鲸记》第903期

How he wasted and wasted away in those few long-lingering days, till there seemed but little left of him but his frame and tattooing. 在这么缠绵拖延的几天里，竟把他消光耗尽得不成样子，只剩下个刺花的躯壳了。 But as

英语听书《白鲸记》第904期

Not a man of the crew but gave him up; 水手们都没有把他当做个无药可救的病人； and, as for Queequeg himself, what he thought of his case was forcibly shown by a curious favor he asked. 至于魁魁格自己呢，究竟他对于自己的

英语听书《白鲸记》第905期

Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might include. 且说这件怪事传到船尾去时，那个木匠就立刻受命按照魁魁格的吩咐行事，把他所

英语听书《白鲸记》第907期

Poor rover! will ye never have done with all this weary roving? Where go ye now? 可怜的漂泊者！你是不是再也不过这种发腻的流浪生活啦？那么，你要到哪里去呀？ But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles wher

英语听书《白鲸记》第908期

Queequeg dies game!mind ye that; Queequeg dies game! take ye good heed of that; 魁魁格是斗死了的！你们听着；魁魁格是斗死了的！你们得小心注意呀； Queequeg dies game! I say; game, game, game! but base little Pip, he died