万物简史 第402期:浩瀚的海洋(21)

It is now thought that the larvae of certain organisms may drift through the water until, 现在认为，某些生物的幼体可能在水里漂动， by some unknown chemical means, they detect that they have arrived at a food opportunity and fall o

万物简史 第403期:浩瀚的海洋(22)

In the 1970s, fishermen from Australia and, to a lesser extent, New Zealand 20世纪70年代，澳大利亚渔民，在较小范围内还有新西兰渔民， discovered shoals of a little-known fish living at a depth of about half a mile on their co

万物简史 第399期:浩瀚的海洋(18)

It was all quite extraordinarily sloppy. 这种事于得真是马虎。 Most of the drums were exactly the sort you see rusting behind gas stations or standing outside factories, with no protective linings of any type. 大多数的桶就是我们堆放

万物简史 第398期:浩瀚的海洋(17)

Millions of gallons of fresh water evaporate from the ocean daily, leaving all their salts behind, 每天有几百万加仑淡水从海洋蒸发，留下了全部盐分， so logically the seas ought to grow more salty with the passing years, but the

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塔克拉玛干大沙漠将建成国家湿地公园

A state-level wetland park was established in Taklamakan, China's largest desert, in the northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. 在新疆乌鲁木齐自治区的西北部，也就是中国最大的沙漠，塔克拉玛干，将会建设一个国家

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1) The Sahara is the biggest desert in the world. 形容词最高级前通常必须用定冠词 the，副词最高级前可不用。 形容词most前面没有the，不表示最高级的含义，只表示非常。 It is a most important problem. =It i

万物简史 第405期:浩瀚的海洋(24)

Nothing, however, compares with the fate of cod. 然而，命运最惨的要算是鳕鱼。 In the late fifteenth century, the explorer John Cabot found cod in incredible numbers on the eastern banks of North America, 15世纪末，探险家约翰卡伯

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还有不到一周的时间，我们就要和2018年说再见了。2018年，像每一个平凡的一年一样，在分秒的时钟中就这样的流走了。这一年，我相信对每一个人的意义都是不同的，或许它只是你人生中波澜

沙漠中的冰雪宫殿

President Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the construction of a palace made of ice in the heart of his desert country, one of the hottest on earth. It is the latest in a series of colossal building projects instigated by the all-powerful presiden

万物简史 第393期:浩瀚的海洋(12)

In 1958, they did a deal with the U.S. Navy, which gave the Navy ownership but left them in control. 1958年，他们与美国海军达成一桩交易，把探海艇的所有权交给海军，但他们仍保留使用权。 Now flush with funds, the P

万物简史 第382期:浩瀚的海洋(1)

18 The Bounding Main 第十八章 浩瀚的海洋 Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, 请你想像一下，你能不能生活在一个由一氧化二氢主宰的世界里。 a compound that has no taste or smell and is so

万物简史 第383期:浩瀚的海洋(2)

Almost nothing about it can be used to make reliable predictions about the properties of other liquids and vice versa. 它的身上几乎没有哪一点可以用来对别的液体的性质进行可靠的推测，反之亦然。 If you knew nothing of

万物简史 第386期:浩瀚的海洋(5)

There are 320 million cubic miles of water on Earth and that is all we're ever going to get. 地球上有13亿立方公里水，这是全部。 The system is closed: practically speaking, nothing can be added or subtracted. 系统已经关闭，说得明

万物简史 第387期:浩瀚的海洋(6)

Nearly 90 percent of the planet's ice is in Antarctica, and most of the rest is in Greenland. 地球上将近90%的冰在南极洲；剩下的主要在格陵兰。 Go to the South Pole and you will be standing on nearly two miles of ice, at the North

万物简史 第388期:浩瀚的海洋(7)

In the 1830s, the British naturalist Edward Forbes surveyed ocean beds throughout the Atlantic and Mediterranean 19世纪30年代，英国博物学家爱德华福布斯勘察了大西佯和地中海各处的海床， and declared that there was no li

万物简史 第389期:浩瀚的海洋(8)

They also discovered, by means of depth measurements, that there appeared to be submerged mountains in the mid-Atlantic, 通过测量深度，他们还发现大西洋中部的水底下似乎有山脉。 prompting some excited observers to speculate t

万物简史 第390期:浩瀚的海洋(9)

Although Beebe nearly always gets the credit, 虽然功劳几乎总是归于毕比， it was in fact Barton who designed the first bathysphere (from the Greek word for deep) and funded the $12,000 cost of its construction. 但设计并出资1200美元来

万物简史 第391期:浩瀚的海洋(10)

At 3,000 feet, their little porthole was subjected to nineteen tons of pressure per square inch. 到了900米，小舷窗受到的压力高达每平方厘米2.95吨。 Death at such a depth would have been instantaneous, as Beebe never failed to obse

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Surmounting Life's Obstacles - Do You Cling to What You Were Before? 跨越生命中的障碍 您还坚持原来的样子吗? A little stream flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many villages and forests, until it reached a desert.