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According to one estimate, there could be as many as thirty million species of animals living in the sea, most still undiscovered. 据一项估计，海洋里可能生活着多达3000万种动物，大多数尚未被发现。 The first hint of how ab
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It was a world independent of sunlight, oxygen, or anything else normally associated with life. 那个世界独立于阳光、氧气和其他通常与生命有关的任何东西。 This was a living system based not on photosynthesis but on chemosynt
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There are still no submersibles that can go anywhere near the depth of the Mariana Trench 现在假然没有能下沉到接近马里亚纳海沟深度的探海艇。 and only five, including Alvin, that can reach the depths of the abyssal plainthe de
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The Cambrian explosion, if that's the word for it, probably was more an increase in size than a sudden appearance of new body types, Fortey says. 寒武纪大爆发，如果可以这么称呼的话，更可能是个儿变大，而不是新体形的突然
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Many of the Burgess specimens have now been assigned to living phyla just where Walcott put them in the first place. 许多布尔吉斯标本现在已经归到活着的动物的门里就是沃尔科特最初放置它们的地方。 Hallucigenia and s
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Although everyone calls it the Big Bang, many books caution us not to think of it as an explosion in the conventional sense. It was, rather, a vast, sudden expansion on a whopping scale. So what caused it? 虽然人人都称其为大爆炸，但许多书
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There is of course a great deal we don't know, and much of what we think we know we haven't known, or thought we've known, for long. Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. 当然，有大量的事情我们不知道，还有大量的事情
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As of 1995, some 37,000 industrial-sized fishing ships, plus about a million smaller boats, 到1995年，世界上大约有37000越工业规模的渔船，加上大约100万条小型渔船。 were between them taking twice as many fish from the sea a
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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
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The figures have since been refined and made a little more generous, 自那以后，这两个数字被更精确地测算了一遍，放宽了一点， 5 percent nearer and 15 percent farther are thought to be more accurate assessments for our zone of
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Under its influence divers had been known to offer their air hoses to passing fish or decide to try to have a smoke break. 据知，在氮的影响下，潜水员会把自己的空气管扔给从身边游过的鱼，或决定抽支烟歇息片刻。
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Like Earth itself, I remarked. Precisely, he agreed. 就像地球本身一样。我说。一点不错。他表示赞同。 The risks at Yellowstone apply to park employees as much as to visitors. 黄石公园对游客来说有危险，对公园雇员来
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In an extraordinarily unself-critical book called Surviving Galeras, Williams said he could only shake my head in wonder when he learned afterward 但威廉斯毫不自责，在一本名叫《加莱拉斯火山幸存记》的书里说，当他后来听
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The luckiest person on that day was a graduate student named Harry Glicken. 那一天最走运的要算是一位名叫哈里格利肯的研究生。 He had been manning an observation post 5.7 miles from the mountain, 他是离火山9公里处一个观
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As you will gather from this, measuring earthquakes is not always an exact science, particularly when interpreting readings from remote locations. 你从中可以知道，测量地震并不总是一门很精确的科学，尤其在牵涉到解释来自
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Combining Leavitt's cosmic yardstick with Vesto Slipher's handy red shifts, Edwin Hubble now began to measure selected points in space with a fresh eye. In 1923 he showed that a puff of distant gossamer in the Andromeda constellation known as M31 was
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In an attempt to reestablish order, the British in 1842 proclaimed a new set of rules called the Stricklandian Code, 为了重新统一步调，英国人于l842年宣布了一套新的规则，叫做斯特里克兰法则， but the French saw this as
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The intention originally was to use the binomial system for everything rocks, minerals, diseases, winds, whatever existed in nature. 他本打算把双名体系用于自然界中的一切，如岩石、矿物质、疾病、风等等。 Not everyone e
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In 1910, Rutherford (assisted by his student Hans Geiger, who would later invent the radiation detector that bears his name) fired ionized helium atoms, or alpha particles, at a sheet of gold foil. To Rutherford's astonishment, some of the particles
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the world has about 10,000 active taxonomists, 据《华尔街日报》说，世界上大约有l万名活跃的分类学家， not a great number when you consider how much there is to be recorded. 考虑到有那么
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