万物简史 第4期:引言(4)

Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line,你不光自古以来一直非常走运，属于一个受到优待的进化过程，but you have also been extremely, make that miraculously fortu

万物简史 第167期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(10)

Einstein was born in Ulm, in southern Germany, in 1879, but grew up in Munich. Little in his early life suggested the greatness to come. Famously he didnt learn to speak until he was three. In the 1890s, his fathers electrical business failing, the f

万物简史 第136期:基本物质(8)

In 1793, the Reign of Terror, already intense, ratcheted up to a higher gear. In October Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine. The following month, as Lavoisier and his wife were making tardy plans to slip away to Scotland, Lavoisier was arres

万物简史 第431期:小生物的世界(2)

Every human body consists of about 10 quadrillion cells, but about 100 quadrillion bacterial cells. 每个人体大约由1亿亿个细胞组成，但它却是大约10亿亿个细菌细胞的寄主。 They are, in short, a big part of us. 总而言之，

万物简史 第220期:把铅撵出去(9)

Holmes was heroic as much for the obstacles he overcame as for the results he achieved. By the 1920s, when Holmes was in the prime of his career, geology had slipped out of fashionphysics was the new excitement of the ageand had become severely under

万物简史 第381期:进入对流层(22)

By 1958, when people in lab coats started to pay attention to it, it had risen to 315 parts per million. 到1958年实验室人员开始重视这个问题的时候，那个数字已经上升到百万分之三百一十五。 Today it is over 360 parts

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365期:进入对流层(6)

People who habitually live at altitude have often spent thousands of years developing disproportionately large chests and lungs, increasing their density of oxygen-bearing red blood cells by almost a third, though there are limits to how much thicken

万物简史 第369期:进入对流层(10)

At the equator the convection process is generally stable and the weather predictably fair, but in temperate zones the patterns are far more seasonal, localized, and random, which results in an endless battle between systems of high-pressure air and

万物简史 第374期:进入对流层(15)

To these he subsequently added a fourth term, nimbus (from the Latin for cloud), for a rain cloud. The beauty of Howard's system was that the basic components could be freely recombined to describe every shape and size of passing cloudstratocumulus,

万物简史 第329期:美丽而危险(12)

Once it is in place, the idea is that three people, 计划问世以后，打算这么做：3个人， Christiansen in Menlo Park, California, Professor Robert B. Smith at the University of Utah, and Doss in the park, 加利福尼亚门洛公园的克里

万物简史 第304期:地下的烈火(12)

And what causes these massive intraplate rupturings? 这种跨板块大地震是怎么发生的？ Something deep within the Earth. 原因在地球深处。 More than that we don't know. 更多的情况我们就不知道了。 By the 1960s scientists

万物简史 第295期:地下的烈火(3)

The article called the site a Pompeii of prehistoric animals,' he told me, 文章把这个地方称之为史前动物的庞贝城，他对我说， which was unfortunate because just afterward we realized that the animals hadn't died suddenly at all.

万物简史 第277期:砰!(12)

This involved bombarding samples with neutrons in a small nuclear reactor and carefully counting the gamma rays that were emitted; 这项技术包括在一个小型核反应堆里用中子轰击样品，仔细计算释放出来的射线。 it was ext

万物简史 第275期:砰!(10)

While Gene Shoemaker was trying to get people galvanized about the potential dangers of the inner solar system, 正当尤金苏梅克试图提醒人们注意太阳系内部的潜在危险的时候， another developmentwholly unrelated on the face of

万物简史 第274期:砰!(9)

Altogether it is thoughtthough it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon, 据认为──虽然只是根据月球上形成凹坑的速度所作的一种推测， that some two thousand asteroids big enough to

万物简史 第267期:砰!(2)

The trauma to Manson's geology had come not from within the Earth, but from at least 100 million miles beyond. Sometime in the very ancient past, when Manson stood on the edge of a shallow sea, a rock about a mile and a half across, weighing ten bill

万物简史 第247期:大地在移动(1)

12 The Earth Moves 第十二章 大地在移动 In one of his last professional acts before his death in 1955, Albert Einstein wrote a short but glowing foreword to a book by a geologist named Charles Hapgood entitled Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to

万物简史 第523期:丰富多彩的生命(19)

Disputes and reorderings of much the same type can be found in all the other realms of the living, 同样的争吵，同样的重新分类，也发生在所有别的生物领域， so keeping an overall tally is not nearly as straightforward a matter