万物简史 第401期:浩瀚的海洋(20)

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

万物简史 第397期:浩瀚的海洋(16)

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

万物简史 第396期:浩瀚的海洋(15)

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

万物简史 第480期:生命在前进(22)

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

万物简史 第478期:生命在前进(20)

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

万物简史 第15期:如何营造一个宇宙(7)

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

万物简史 第12期:如何营造一个宇宙(4)

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

万物简史 第404期:浩瀚的海洋(23)

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

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474期:生命在前进(16)

From the first there were a number of scientists who doubted the account that Steve Gould had presented, 从一开始，许多科学家就对斯蒂芬杰伊古尔德的陈说表示怀疑， however much they admired the manner of its delivery, Fortey

万物简史 第163期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(6)

If you needed to illustrate the idea of nineteenth-century America as a land of opportunity, you could hardly improve on the life of Albert Michelson. 如果你需要说明19世纪的美国是个机会之乡的理念，那么你很难再找到像阿尔

万物简史 第160期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(3)

Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person that most people have never heard of. Modest to the point of near invisibility, he passed virtually the whole of his life, apart from three years spent studying in Europe, within a three-block area bounded b

万物简史 第316期:地下的烈火(24)

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

万物简史 第315期:地下的烈火(23)

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

万物简史 第300期:地下的烈火(8)

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

万物简史 第184期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(27)

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

万物简史 第520期:丰富多彩的生命(16)

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

万物简史 第518期:丰富多彩的生命(14)

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

万物简史 第197期:威力巨大的原子(11)

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

万物简史 第526期:丰富多彩的生命(22)

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