萬物簡史:PART II CH 6勢不兩立的科學(xué)（6）
來源：滬江聽寫酷
2011-10-29 07:00
不大知名的英國人威廉?史密斯發(fā)表對化石價值的見解。他是薩默塞特的科爾運河建筑工地上的年輕監(jiān)督員。繪制英國的巖層圖，成為近代地質(zhì)學(xué)的奠基石~~~
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書本的朗讀語音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好學(xué)著模仿哦~~~?。?
因為原著為美國人所寫,單詞采用美式拼法,不抄全文，也不用寫序號。答完一空換行繼續(xù)下一空作答。文中需聽寫單詞或詞組用[-No-]表示，句子用[---No---]表示。請邊聽寫邊理解文意，根據(jù)下面的TIPS訓(xùn)練聽寫。這樣可以提高聽力準(zhǔn)確度，并為訓(xùn)練聽譯打下基礎(chǔ)哦~~~
TIPS聽寫訓(xùn)練點：單詞拼寫，時態(tài)，單復(fù)數(shù)，連讀，長難句（請邊聽邊用符號先記下內(nèi)容，然后自己回頭組織語句，最后校對，不要逐字逐句聽寫）
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Hints:
carboniferous
Devon
Cambrian
Wales
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In the same year—in fact, the same month—that the aristocratic and [-1-] Cuvier was propounding his extinction theories in Paris, on the other side of the English Channel a rather more obscure Englishman was [-2-] the value of fossils that would also have lasting ramifications. William Smith was a young supervisor of construction on the Somerset Coal Canal. On the evening of January 5, 1796, he was sitting in a coaching inn in Somerset when he jotted down the notion that would eventually make his reputation. [---3---] Smith's insight was to realize that the answer lay with fossils. At every change in rock strata certain species of fossils disappeared while others carried on into [-4-] levels. By noting which species appeared in which strata, you could work out the relative ages of rocks wherever they appeared. [-5-], Smith began at once to make a map of Britain's rock strata, which would be published after many trials in 1815 and would become a [-6-] of modern geology. (The story is [-7-] covered in Simon Winchester's popular book The Map That Changed the World.)
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書本的朗讀語音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好學(xué)著模仿哦~~~?。?
因為原著為美國人所寫,單詞采用美式拼法,不抄全文，也不用寫序號。答完一空換行繼續(xù)下一空作答。文中需聽寫單詞或詞組用[-No-]表示，句子用[---No---]表示。請邊聽寫邊理解文意，根據(jù)下面的TIPS訓(xùn)練聽寫。這樣可以提高聽力準(zhǔn)確度，并為訓(xùn)練聽譯打下基礎(chǔ)哦~~~
TIPS聽寫訓(xùn)練點：單詞拼寫，時態(tài)，單復(fù)數(shù)，連讀，長難句（請邊聽邊用符號先記下內(nèi)容，然后自己回頭組織語句，最后校對，不要逐字逐句聽寫）
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Hints:
carboniferous
Devon
Cambrian
Wales
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In the same year—in fact, the same month—that the aristocratic and [-1-] Cuvier was propounding his extinction theories in Paris, on the other side of the English Channel a rather more obscure Englishman was [-2-] the value of fossils that would also have lasting ramifications. William Smith was a young supervisor of construction on the Somerset Coal Canal. On the evening of January 5, 1796, he was sitting in a coaching inn in Somerset when he jotted down the notion that would eventually make his reputation. [---3---] Smith's insight was to realize that the answer lay with fossils. At every change in rock strata certain species of fossils disappeared while others carried on into [-4-] levels. By noting which species appeared in which strata, you could work out the relative ages of rocks wherever they appeared. [-5-], Smith began at once to make a map of Britain's rock strata, which would be published after many trials in 1815 and would become a [-6-] of modern geology. (The story is [-7-] covered in Simon Winchester's popular book The Map That Changed the World.)
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celebrated
having an insight into
To interpret rocks, there needs to be some means of correlation, a basis on which you can tell that those carboniferous rocks from Devon are younger than these Cambrian rocks from Wales.
subsequent
Drawing on his knowledge as a surveyor
cornerstone
comprehensively
大名鼎鼎的貴族居維葉在巴黎提出了絕種論。同年--實際上是同月，在英吉利海峽對岸，一個不大知名的英國人在發(fā)表對化石價值的見解。他的見解也具有持久的影響。威廉?史密斯是薩默塞特的科爾運河建筑工地上的年輕監(jiān)督員。1796年1月5日，他坐在薩默塞特一家馬車旅店里，記下了那個最終會使他名揚天下的觀點。若要解釋巖石，你非得有某種并置對比的東西。在這個基礎(chǔ)上，你可以知道德文的那些石炭紀(jì)巖石要比威爾士的這些寒武紀(jì)巖石年輕。隨著巖層的每一變化，有的物種的化石消失了，而有的化石一直延伸到隨后的巖層。通過發(fā)現(xiàn)哪種物種在哪個巖層出現(xiàn)，你就可以計算出巖石的年齡，無論這些巖石是在哪里。憑著他作為測量員所擁有的知識，史密斯馬上動手繪制英國的巖層圖。經(jīng)過多次試用以后，這些圖于1815年出版，成為近代地質(zhì)學(xué)的奠基石。（西蒙?溫切斯特在他深受歡迎的《改變世界的地圖》一書里對這件事作了全面的記述。）
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