Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

  • -- Robert T. Bakker 罗伯特T.巴克

海洋生物的灭绝常常与陆地生物同时发生。再一次,冰河时代的灭绝使许多大型动物灭绝,但没有多少海洋动物灭绝。

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

正如波浪不能为它自己而存在,而是永远是波涛汹涌的海面的一部分一样,我也决不能为它而活,而要永远活在我周围发生的经历中。

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

我只是写我喜欢读的那种书,一本既学术性又再现了当时人们经历的书。

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

我们为婴孩的坟墓哭泣,为因死离我们而去的婴孩的坟墓哭泣;但是早睡早起可能是通往天堂的捷径。

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

在这片移民的土地上,一个人并不是外国人,而仅仅是新来的。

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

当房子和土地都用完了,那么学习就是最好的。

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

海洋是一个中心意象。这是一次伟大旅程的象征。

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

酒淹死的人比海淹死的人还多。

I need the sea because it teaches me.

我需要大海,因为它教会了我。

We live in ugly times.

我们生活在一个丑陋的时代。