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英语听书《白鲸记》第869期

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Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time I have been a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals and wells, wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts. Likewise, by way of preliminary, I desire to remind the reader, that while in the earlier geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now almost completely extinct; the subsequent relics discovered in what are called the Tertiary formations seem the connecting, or at any rate intercepted links, between the antichronical creatures, and those whose remote posterity are said to have entered the Ark; all the Fossil Whales hitherto discovered belong to the Tertiary period, which is the last preceding the superficial formations. And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking ranks as Cetacean fossils.

在着手处理化石鲸这题目之前,我得呈缴我的地质学家的证状,以证明我在各种时期中,曾经做过石匠,也做过壕沟、运河、水井、酒窖、地窖,以及各种各样水槽的挖掘巨匠(据百周年纪念版注:作者曾于一八三九年四月间得他舅父之助,在伊利运河管理部门做过一个时期的工作。)。而且,我还要开门见山地提请读者注意,在早期的地质层中,虽然曾经发现过巨兽的化石,可是现在都简直完全绝迹了。后来在我们所称为第三地层中所发现的遗物,似乎就是介于反年纪的生物间的一种联结物(总之,或者是一种阻隔物),而且那些属于这一类的后代,据说早就跑进了方舟。迄今所发现的一切属于第三纪的化石鲸,都是表层形成前的最后一批。虽然,在这些化石鲸中,没有一条跟现代所看到的哪一类鲸很相符合,然而,一般说来,这些化石鲸却还跟现代鲸类极相类似,且足以证明它们是属于同类。
Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their bones and skeletons, have within thirty years past, at various intervals, been found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
亚当以前的大鲸的断块化石,它们的骨头和骷髅断片,在过去三十年间,都曾陆续在下列各地方找到:阿尔卑斯山脚,伦巴底,法国,英国,苏格兰,和美国的路易斯安那州,密西西比州,亚拉巴马州。

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superficial [.su:pə'fiʃəl]

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adj. 表面的,肤浅的

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justify ['dʒʌstifai]

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vt. 替 ... 辩护,证明 ... 正当

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hitherto ['hiðə'tu:]

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adv. 到目前为止,迄今

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base [beis]

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n. 基底,基础,底部,基线,基数,(棒球)垒,[化]碱

 
species ['spi:ʃiz]

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n. (单复同)物种,种类

 
remote [ri'məut]

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adj. 偏僻的,遥远的,远程的,(感情等)距离很大

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detached [di'tætʃt]

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adj. 超然的,分离的,独立的

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extinct [iks'tiŋkt]

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adj. 灭绝的,熄灭的,耗尽的

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