万物简史:PART II CH 5敲石头的人们（13）
来源：沪江听写酷
2011-10-12 07:00
尽管莱尔的理论有误，但是他对地质学的贡献依旧影响深远~~~
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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据下面的TIPS训练听写。这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~
TIPS听写训练点：单词拼写，时态，单复数，连读，长难句（请边听边用符号先记下内容，然后自己回头组织语句，最后校对，不要逐字逐句听写）
Hint:
testament
Lyell's oversights were not [-1-]. He failed to explain convincingly how mountain ranges were formed and overlooked glaciers as an agent of change. He refused to accept Louis Agassiz's idea of ice ages—"the refrigeration of the globe," as he dismissively termed it—and was confident that mammals "would be found in the oldest fossiliferous beds." He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups—mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on—had [-2-] since the dawn of time. [---3---]
Yet it would be nearly impossible to [-4-] Lyell's influence. The Principles of Geology [-5-] 12 editions in Lyell's lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the 20th century. Darwin took a first edition with him on the Beagle voyage and wrote afterward that "the [-6-] of the Principles was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind, and therefore that, when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it [-7-] through his eyes." In short, he thought him nearly a god, as did many of his generation. [---8---] But that is another chapter.
❤《万物简史》推出部落节目版，戳这里订阅:http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/6004/
书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据下面的TIPS训练听写。这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~
TIPS听写训练点：单词拼写，时态，单复数，连读，长难句（请边听边用符号先记下内容，然后自己回头组织语句，最后校对，不要逐字逐句听写）
Hint:
testament
Lyell's oversights were not [-1-]. He failed to explain convincingly how mountain ranges were formed and overlooked glaciers as an agent of change. He refused to accept Louis Agassiz's idea of ice ages—"the refrigeration of the globe," as he dismissively termed it—and was confident that mammals "would be found in the oldest fossiliferous beds." He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups—mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on—had [-2-] since the dawn of time. [---3---]
Yet it would be nearly impossible to [-4-] Lyell's influence. The Principles of Geology [-5-] 12 editions in Lyell's lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the 20th century. Darwin took a first edition with him on the Beagle voyage and wrote afterward that "the [-6-] of the Principles was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind, and therefore that, when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it [-7-] through his eyes." In short, he thought him nearly a god, as did many of his generation. [---8---] But that is another chapter.
inconsiderable
coexisted
On all of these he would ultimately be proved wrong.
overstate
went through
great merit
partially
It is a testament to the strength of Lyell's sway that in the 1980s when geologists had to abandon just a part of it to accommodate the impact theory of extinctions, it nearly killed them.
莱尔的失误并不算少。他没有令人信服地解释山脉是怎么形成的，没有看到冰河是个变化的动因。他不愿意接受阿加西斯关于冰期的观点--他轻描淡写地将其称之为"地球制冷"--坚信"在最古老的化石床里会发现"哺乳动物。他拒绝接受关于动物和植物突然死亡的看法，认为所有主要的动物群体--哺乳动物、爬行动物、鱼类等等--自古以来一直同时存在。在这些问题上，最后证明他是完全错误的。
然而，莱尔的影响你几乎怎么说也不会过分。《地质学原理》在他生前出了12版；直到20世纪，书里包含的一些观点依然被地质学界奉为圭臬。达尔文乘"猎犬"号环球航行途中还随身带着一本《地质学原理》，而且是该书的第1版。他后来写道："《原理》的最大优点在于它改变了一个人的整个思想状态；因此，当见到一样莱尔从没有见到过的东西的时候，你在一定程度上是以他的眼光来看的。"总之，他差不多把莱尔看做是个神，就像他那一代人的许多人一样。20世纪80年代，当地质学家不得不摈弃他的一部分理论，以适应关于绝种的撞击理论的时候，他们简直痛苦得要命。这充分说明了莱尔的影响之大。不过，那是后话了。
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