萬物簡史:PART II CH 5敲石頭的人們（24）
來源：滬江聽寫酷
2011-10-23 07:00
今天是Chapter5的最后一部分了，介紹了物理巨匠人物威廉湯姆森唯一沒有完成的研究是他的第二職業(yè)——算出地球的確切年齡。隨著時間的推移，我們的開爾文勛爵的結(jié)論變得越來越確切，越來越不正確~~
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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:
the Sun
exhaust
contradict
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He had really only one flaw and that was an inability to [-1-] the correct age of the Earth. [---2---] His first effort, in 1862 for an article in a popular magazine called Macmillan's, suggested that the Earth was 98 million years old, but cautiously allowed that the figure could be as low as 20 million years or as high as 400 million. With remarkable prudence he [-3-] that his calculations could be wrong if “[---4---]”—but it was clear that he thought that unlikely.
With the passage of time Kelvin would become more [-5-]in his assertions and less correct. He continually [-6-] his estimates downward, from a maximum of 400 million years, to 100 million years, to 50 million years, and finally, in 1897, to a mere 24 million years. Kelvin wasn't being [-7-]. [---8---]Therefore it followed that the Sun and its planets were relatively, but inescapably, youthful.
[---9---]
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?《萬物簡史》推出部落節(jié)目版，戳這里訂閱:http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/6004/
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，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）
450)=450">
Hints:
the Sun
exhaust
contradict
450)=450">
He had really only one flaw and that was an inability to [-1-] the correct age of the Earth. [---2---] His first effort, in 1862 for an article in a popular magazine called Macmillan's, suggested that the Earth was 98 million years old, but cautiously allowed that the figure could be as low as 20 million years or as high as 400 million. With remarkable prudence he [-3-] that his calculations could be wrong if “[---4---]”—but it was clear that he thought that unlikely.
With the passage of time Kelvin would become more [-5-]in his assertions and less correct. He continually [-6-] his estimates downward, from a maximum of 400 million years, to 100 million years, to 50 million years, and finally, in 1897, to a mere 24 million years. Kelvin wasn't being [-7-]. [---8---]Therefore it followed that the Sun and its planets were relatively, but inescapably, youthful.
[---9---]
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calculate
The question occupied much of the second half of his career, but he never came anywhere near getting it right.
acknowledged
sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation
forthright
revised
willful
It was simply that there was nothing in physics that could explain how a body the size of the Sun could burn continuously for more than a few tens of millions of years at most without exhausting its fuel.
The problem was that nearly all the fossil evidence contradicted this, and suddenly in the 19th century there was a lot of fossil evidence.
他實際上只有一個瑕疵，那就是沒能計算出地球的年齡。這個問題占去了他后半生的許多時間，但他從來沒有得出個比較正確的數(shù)字。1862年，在為一本名叫《麥克米倫》的通俗雜志寫的一篇文章里，他第一次提出地球的年齡是9800萬年，但謹慎地認為這個數(shù)字最小可為2000萬年，最大可達4億年。他還小心翼翼地承認，他的計算可能是錯的，要是"造物主的大倉庫里備有我們目前沒有掌握的資料"的話--但是，他顯然認為那是不可能的。
隨著時間的過去，開爾文的結(jié)論變得越來越確切，越來越不正確。他不停地把自己的估計數(shù)字往下降，從最大的4億年降到1億年，然后又降到5000萬年，最后在1897年降到了僅僅2400萬年。開爾文并不是在隨心所欲，只是因為物理學(xué)無法解釋為什么像太陽這么個龐然大物可以連續(xù)燃燒幾千萬年以上，而又耗不盡其燃料。因此，他就想當(dāng)然地認為，太陽及其行星必然相對年輕。
問題在于，幾乎所有的化石都證明和這個結(jié)論相矛盾。而突然之間，19世紀(jì)發(fā)現(xiàn)了大量的化石。
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