With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. 性的饥渴在思特里克兰德身上占的地位很小,很不重要,或勿宁说,叫他感到很嫌恶。 His soul aimed elsewhither. 他的灵魂
But my study of Strickland's character suffers from a greater defect than my ignorance of many facts. 但是我对思特里克兰德的性格的分析,除了因为有许多事实我不了解外,却还有另外一个更为严重的缺憾。 Becaus
When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal. 当我开始叙述他同勃朗什施特略夫的关系时,我也深为自己掌握材料不足所苦。 To give my story coheren
Chapter 43 第四十三章 Looking back, I realise that what I have written about Charles Strickland must seem very unsatisfactory. 回过头来看一下,我发现我写的关于查理斯思特里克兰德的这些事似乎很难令人满意。 I h
The final impression I received was of a prodigious effort to express some state of the soul, and in this effort, 他的这些画给我的最后一个印象是他为了表现某一精神境界所作的惊人的努力。 I fancied, must be sought the
For complex organisms, the average lifespan of a species is only about four million yearsroughly about where we are now. 对于复杂动物来说,一个物种的平均寿命只有大约400万年大致相当于我们人类迄今存在的时间。 Ex
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
These are difficult inconsistencies. 这些都是难以解释的矛盾地方。 As Richard Fortey observes: Somehow it does not seem satisfying just to call them 'lucky ones' and leave it at that. 正如理查德福泰所说:仅仅把它们称做幸运
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
Chapter 114 The Gilder 第一百十四章 镀金匠 Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. 由于越来越深入日本的巡游腹地,裴廓德号不久就哄动了
Now, mustering the spare poles from below, and selecting one of hickory, with the bark still investing it, Ahab fitted the end to the socket of the iron. 于是,亚哈打甲板上捡起几根备用的杆子,挑了一根上面还有枝桠的胡桃木
For the white fiend! But now for the barbs; thou must make them thyself, man. 是拿去打白魔的!现在打标枪钩吧;你得你自己干喽,老朋友。 Here are my razors the best of steel; here, and make the barbs sharp as the needle-slee
Oh! that is the one, sir! Said I not all seams and dents but one? 啊!就是这一样东西!先生,我刚才不是说过除了一样东西吗? Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; 不错,铁匠,就是这一样东西
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