万物简史 第500期:多灾多难的生命进程(20)
Some animals absolutely prospered including, a little surprisingly, the turtles once again. 有的动物再次一片兴旺的景象包括鳖，真有点儿令人感到意外。 As Flannery notes, the period immediately after the dinosaur extinction c
万物简史 第501期:多灾多难的生命进程(21)
Indeed, with the world dark and hostile, it was a perfect time to be small, warm-blooded, nocturnal, flexible in diet, and cautious by nature, 当世界一片滚黑、布满危险的时候，对于出没于夜间、不挑食物、生性谨慎的小恒温
万物简史 第502期:多灾多难的生命进程(22)
It stood ten feet high, weighed over eight hundred pounds, and had a beak that could tear the head off pretty much anything that irked it. 它身高3米，体重350千克以上，它的喙能把差不多任何令它讨厌的动物的脑袋扯掉。 I
万物简史 第503期:多灾多难的生命进程(23)
The fact is, we don't really know a great deal about the dinosaurs. 实际情况是，我们其实对恐龙了解不多。 For the whole of the Age of Dinosaurs, fewer than a thousand species have been identified (almost half of them known from a sin
万物简史 第504期:多灾多难的生命进程(24)
Sifting meticulously, the volunteers collected every last tooth and vertebra and chip of bone everything that had been overlooked by previous diggers. 志愿者们精心筛选，捡起了剩下的每一颗牙齿、每一根脊骨和每一片骨头反正
万物简史 第505期:丰富多彩的生命(1)
23 The Richness of Being 第二十三章 丰富多彩的生命 Here and there in the Natural History Museum in London, 在伦敦自然史博物馆的很多地方， built into recesses along the underlit corridors or standing between glass cases of m
万物简史 第506期:丰富多彩的生命(2)
Back here are specimens collected by Joseph Banks in Australia, 这里放着约瑟夫班克斯在澳大利亚采集的标本， Alexander von Humboldt in Amazonia, Darwin on the Beagle voyage, and much else that is either very rare or historically im
万物简史 第507期:丰富多彩的生命(3)
We wandered through a confusion of departments where people sat at large tables doing intent, 我们漫步穿过一个又一个部门，只见人们坐在大桌子跟前， investigative things with arthropods and palm fronds and boxes of yellowed bo
万物简史 第508期:丰富多彩的生命(4)
When Emerson poetically noted that mosses favor the north sides of trees (The moss upon the forest bark, was pole-star when the night was dark) 当埃默森富有诗意地谈到苔藓喜欢生长在树木的北侧的时候（在漆黑的夜晚，树干
万物简史 第509期:丰富多彩的生命(5)
You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为，世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西
万物简史 第510期:丰富多彩的生命(6)
When a new moss is found it must be compared with all other mosses to make sure that it hasn't been recorded already. 要是发现了一种新的苔藓，就要把它和所有别的苔藓进行比较，看看是不是已经有过记录。 Then a form
万物简史 第511期:丰富多彩的生命(7)
This was an amazing disclosure. 这句话里包含着丰富的历史内容。 Joseph Banks was England's greatest botanist, and the Endeavour voyage that is the one on which Captain Cook charted the 1769 transit of Venus 约瑟夫班克斯是英国最伟
万物简史 第512期:丰富多彩的生命(8)
But Banks's grand cache was only part of the total haul in what was an almost absurdly acquisitive age. 但是，在一个渴求知识几乎到了荒唐程度的时代，班克斯的巨大收获只是总收获的组成部分。 Plant collecting in th
万物简史 第513期:丰富多彩的生命(9)
And that was just plants. 那只是植物部分。 There was also all the fauna of the new worlds kangaroos, kiwis, raccoons, bobcats, mosquitoes, and other curious forms beyond imagining. 还有新世界的全部动物群袋鼠呀，鹬鸵呀，浣熊
万物简史 第514期:丰富多彩的生命(10)
Rarely has a man been more comfortable with his own greatness. 很少有人像他那样心安理得地对待自己的名气。 He spent much of his leisure time penning long and flattering portraits of himself, 他花了很多业余时间来绘制和美
