If you imagine the 4,500-million-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, 请你想像一下。把地球的45亿年历史压缩成普通的一天。 then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simpl

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

本杰明和雪莉在路上碰到了雪莉的同事。于是三人大谈健身,不过好像还有事情没有解决哦,来看看是什么吧! Listen Read Learn Maria: Hi, Shirley, it's a surprise to see you here! Shirley: Hi, nice to see you! Maria: What are you doing here? Shirley: Jogging.

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《英语错不起》栏目收录了人们在日常生活中容易用错的英语口语表达,是纠正易错英语表达,学习正确的交际英语口语的好帮手。通过学习本栏目,英语学习爱好者可以掌握地道的英语口语

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I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose. 现在,我知道有好多好多科普作家,他们写出了通俗易懂而又激动人心的散文--Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey, and Tim

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy, I know. To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to creat

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The bad news is that atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting-fleeting indeed. 原子很脆弱,它们的献身时刻倏忽而过--简直是倏忽而过,这是个坏消息。 Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hour

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My own starting point, for what it's worth, was an illustrated science book that I had as a classroom text when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. 我写本书的最初灵感,不管其价值如何,来自我在念小学四、五年级时有过的一

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And ocean salinity of course represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. 当然,海水的咸度只是我不知道的事情中的极小部分。 I didn't know what a proton was, or a protein, didn't know a quark from a quasar,我不知道什么

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Unknown to them, just thirty miles away at Princeton University, a team of scientists led by Robert Dicke was working on how to find the very thing they were trying so diligently to get rid of. The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had

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Part 2 The Ancient Olympic Games 古代奥运会 Dialogue Script 1 对话原文1 Jason: Annie, it is said you are an Olympic expert. Can you tell me anything about the ancient Olympics? Annie: Of cour

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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

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Today some of Sprigg's original Ediacaran specimens, along with many of the other fifteen hundred specimens that have been found throughout the Flinders Range since that time, 今天,斯普里格的埃迪亚卡拉标本原件,与自那以后在整个

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Australia, meanwhile, has been tilting and sinking. Over the past 100 million years as it has drifted north toward Asia, its leading edge has sunk by some six hundred feet. It appears that Indonesia is very slowly drowning, and dragging Australia dow

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but in the 1950s Patrick Blackett of the University of London and S. K. Runcorn of the University of Newcastle studied the ancient magnetic patterns frozen in British rocks and were startled, to say the very least, to find them indicating that at som

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That explained where all the sediment went. It was being returned to the bowels of the Earth. It also explained why ocean floors everywhere were so comparatively youthful. None had ever been found to be older than about 175 million years, which was a

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A very little of this had been known for some time. People laying ocean-floor cables in the nineteenth century had realized that there was some kind of mountainous intrusion in the mid-Atlantic from the way the cables ran, but the continuous nature a

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To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west by about a mile a year, which is clearly nonsense. (It's more like half an inch.) Above all, he could offer no convincing explanation for how the landmasses moved about. T

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Taylor came from a wealthy family and had both the means and freedom from academic constraints to pursue unconventional lines of inquiry. He was one of those struck by the similarity in shape between the facing coastlines of Africa and South America,

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The Linnaean system is so well established that we can hardly imagine an alternative, 林奈分类系统的地位已经牢固确立,我们很难想像还能有别的体系来取而代之。 but before Linnaeus, systems of classification were often

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The flowers' leaves serve as a bridal bed, which the Creator has so gloriously arranged, 花儿的叶子当做新婚之床,这一切造物主已经作好了极好的安排, adorned with such noble bed curtains, and perfumed with so many soft scen

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