萬物簡史:PART II CH 5敲石頭的人們（6）
來源：滬江聽寫酷
2011-09-28 07:00
赫頓在約翰?普萊費爾身上找到了一個鮑斯韋爾式的人物；1807年，倫敦13個志同道合的人在科文特加登廣場朗埃克街的共濟會酒店聚會，成立了一個餐飲俱樂部，后來取名為地質(zhì)學會。
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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/
書本的朗讀語音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好學著模仿哦~~~??！
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:
hefty
Luckily Hutton had a Boswell in the form of John Playfair, a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a close friend, who could not only write silken prose but—thanks to many years at Hutton's [-1-] —actually understood what Hutton was trying to say, most of the time. In 1802, five years after Hutton's death, Playfair produced a simplified [-2-] of the Huttonian principles, entitled Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. [---3---] That, however, was about to change. And how.
In the winter of 1807, 13 like-minded souls in London got together at the Freemasons Tavern at Long Acre, in Covent Garden, to form a dining club to be called the Geological Society. The idea was to meet once a month to swap geological notions over a glass or two of Madeira and a convivial dinner. [---4---] It soon became apparent, however, that there was a demand for something more properly institutional, with a [-5-] headquarters, where people could gather to share and discuss new findings. In [-6-] a decade membership grew to 400—still all gentlemen, of course—and the Geological was threatening to [-7-] the Royal as the premier scientific society in the country.
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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/
書本的朗讀語音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好學著模仿哦~~~??！
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:
hefty
Luckily Hutton had a Boswell in the form of John Playfair, a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a close friend, who could not only write silken prose but—thanks to many years at Hutton's [-1-] —actually understood what Hutton was trying to say, most of the time. In 1802, five years after Hutton's death, Playfair produced a simplified [-2-] of the Huttonian principles, entitled Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. [---3---] That, however, was about to change. And how.
In the winter of 1807, 13 like-minded souls in London got together at the Freemasons Tavern at Long Acre, in Covent Garden, to form a dining club to be called the Geological Society. The idea was to meet once a month to swap geological notions over a glass or two of Madeira and a convivial dinner. [---4---] It soon became apparent, however, that there was a demand for something more properly institutional, with a [-5-] headquarters, where people could gather to share and discuss new findings. In [-6-] a decade membership grew to 400—still all gentlemen, of course—and the Geological was threatening to [-7-] the Royal as the premier scientific society in the country.
elbow
exposition
The book was gratefully received by those who took an active interest in geology, which in 1802 was not a large number.
The price of the meal was set at a deliberately hefty 15 shillings to discourage those whose qualifications were merely cerebral.
permanent
barely
eclipse
還算運氣，赫頓在約翰?普萊費爾身上找到了一個鮑斯韋爾式的人物。普萊費爾是愛丁堡大學的數(shù)學教授，赫頓的一位密友。他不但寫得出漂亮的散文，而且--幸虧多年在赫頓身邊--在大多數(shù)情況下知道赫頓其實想要說些什么。1802年，在赫頓去世5年以后，普萊費爾推出了赫頓原理的簡寫本，題目叫做《關于赫頓地球論的說明》。這本書受到了對地質(zhì)學感興趣的人的歡迎。這種人在1802年還為數(shù)不多。然而，情況快要發(fā)生變化。那么，情況是怎么發(fā)生變化的？
1807年，倫敦13個志同道合的人在科文特加登廣場朗?？私值墓矟鷷频昃蹠?，成立了一個餐飲俱樂部，后來取名為地質(zhì)學會。學會每月碰一次頭，一邊喝一兩杯馬德拉白葡萄酒，吃一頓交際飯，一邊交換對地質(zhì)學的看法。這頓飯的價錢故意定在昂貴的15先令，以便使那些沒有頭腦的人望而卻步。然而，事情很快就變得一清二楚，需要有個設有永久性總部的合適機構，人們可以在那里分享和討論新的發(fā)現(xiàn)。不到10年，成員就發(fā)展到400名--當然仍都是紳士--地質(zhì)學會看來要使皇家學會相形見絀，成為該國的首要科學社團。
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