萬物簡史:PART II CH 5敲石頭的人們（5）
來源：滬江聽寫酷
2011-09-27 07:00
昨天的文章中赫頓提出了一系列不同凡響的見解：山脈河流還有化石，可是，當赫頓將他的見解寫成著作時，他的作品卻成了天書。連19世紀最偉大的地質(zhì)學(xué)家也無法理解~~~
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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,然后聽寫單詞或詞組(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。請邊聽寫邊理解文意，根據(jù)上下文注意各句標號，這樣有助于提高正確率。
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In 1785, Hutton worked his ideas up into a long paper, which was read at [-1-] meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [---2---] It's not hard to see why. Here, in part, is how he presented it to his audience:
In the one case, the forming cause is in the body which is separated; for, after the body has been actuated by heat, it is by the reaction of the proper matter of the body, that the chasm which constitutes the [-3-] is formed. In the other case, again, the cause is extrinsic in relation to the body in which the chasm is formed. There has been the most [-4-] fracture and divulsion; but the cause is still to seek; and it appears not in the vein; for it is not every fracture and dislocation of the solid body of our earth, in which minerals, or the proper substances of mineral veins, are found.
[-5-], almost no one in the audience had the faintest idea what he was talking about. [---6---]
Together the two books ran to nearly 1000 pages and were, remarkably, worse than even his most [-7-] friends had feared. Apart from anything else, nearly half the completed work now [-8-] quotations from French sources, still in the original French. A third volume was so unenticing that it wasn't published until 1899, more than a century after Hutton's death, and the 4th and concluding volume was never published at all. Hutton's Theory of the Earth is [-9-] the least read important book in science (or at least would be if there weren't so many others). Even Charles Lyell, the greatest geologist of the following century and a man who read everything, admitted he couldn't [-10-] it.
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450)=450">
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,然后聽寫單詞或詞組(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。請邊聽寫邊理解文意，根據(jù)上下文注意各句標號，這樣有助于提高正確率。
Hint
magnum opus
450)=450">
In 1785, Hutton worked his ideas up into a long paper, which was read at [-1-] meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [---2---] It's not hard to see why. Here, in part, is how he presented it to his audience:
In the one case, the forming cause is in the body which is separated; for, after the body has been actuated by heat, it is by the reaction of the proper matter of the body, that the chasm which constitutes the [-3-] is formed. In the other case, again, the cause is extrinsic in relation to the body in which the chasm is formed. There has been the most [-4-] fracture and divulsion; but the cause is still to seek; and it appears not in the vein; for it is not every fracture and dislocation of the solid body of our earth, in which minerals, or the proper substances of mineral veins, are found.
[-5-], almost no one in the audience had the faintest idea what he was talking about. [---6---]
Together the two books ran to nearly 1000 pages and were, remarkably, worse than even his most [-7-] friends had feared. Apart from anything else, nearly half the completed work now [-8-] quotations from French sources, still in the original French. A third volume was so unenticing that it wasn't published until 1899, more than a century after Hutton's death, and the 4th and concluding volume was never published at all. Hutton's Theory of the Earth is [-9-] the least read important book in science (or at least would be if there weren't so many others). Even Charles Lyell, the greatest geologist of the following century and a man who read everything, admitted he couldn't [-10-] it.
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Encouraged by his friends to expand his theory, in the touching hope that he might somehow stumble onto clarity in a more expansive format, Hutton spent the next ten years preparing his magnum opus, which was published in two volumes in 1795.
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1785年，赫頓把他的看法寫成一篇很長的論文，并在愛丁堡皇家學(xué)會的幾次會議上宣讀。它幾乎沒有引起大家的注意。原因不難找到。一定程度上，他就是這樣向聽眾宣讀論文的：
在一種情況下，形成的力量在獨立存在的物體內(nèi)部。這是因為，這個物體被熱激活以后，是通過物體的特有物質(zhì)的反應(yīng)，形成了構(gòu)成脈絡(luò)的裂口。在另一種情況下，還是一樣，相對于在其內(nèi)部形成脈絡(luò)的物體來說，原因是外在的。已經(jīng)發(fā)生了最猛烈的斷裂和扯裂；但是那個原因還在努力；它不是出現(xiàn)在脈絡(luò)里，因為它不是在我們地球堅實的物體內(nèi)部--那里找得到礦物或礦脈的特定物質(zhì)--的每條縫隙和每個斷層里。
不用說，聽眾里幾乎誰也不懂他在說些什么。朋友們鼓勵他把他的理論展開一下，希望他能在更大的篇幅里碰巧講得清楚一點。這是很感人的。赫頓花了此后的10年時間準備他的巨著，并且于1795年以兩卷本出版。
這兩本書加起來有將近1000頁，寫得比他最悲觀的朋友擔(dān)心的還要糟糕，真是不可思議。此外，這部作品的內(nèi)容將近一半引自法國的資料，仍然以法文的形式出現(xiàn)。第三卷非常缺少吸引力，直到1899年才出版，那是在赫頓去世一個多世紀以后。第四卷即最后一卷根本沒有出版。赫頓的《地球論》很有資格當選為讀者最少的重要科學(xué)著作（要是沒有大量別的這樣的書的話，那就可以這樣說）。連19世紀最偉大的地質(zhì)學(xué)家、什么書都看過的查爾斯?萊爾也承認，這本書他實在讀不下去。
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