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実際に書いてみると･･････
昨日書いた入試問題の冒頭の部分です
The late twentieth century has witnessed
a remarkable growth in scientific interest
in the subject of extinction. It is hardly
a new subject ---Baron George Cuvier had
first demonstrated that species become extinct
back in 1786, not long after the American
Revolution. Thus the fact of extinction had
been accepted by scientists for nearly three-quarters
of a century before Darwin put forth his
theory of evolution.....
この後延々続き、例のK-Tバウンダリーについての記述が現れます
Then, in 1980, physicist Luis Alvarez and
three coworkers discovered high concentrations
of the element iridium in rocks from the
end of the Cretaceous and the start of the
Tertiary---the so-called K-T boundary.(The
Cretaceous was shorthanded as "K"
to avoid confusion with the Cambrian and
other geological periods.)Iridium is rare
on earth, but abundant in meteors. Alvarez
team argued that presence of so much iridium
in rocks at the K-T bountary suggested that
a giant meteorite, many miles in diameter,
had collided with the earth at that time
....
まだまだ続きます。
これじゃあ、よほどその方面に興味があるか、それともロスト・ワールドを原文で読んだことがあるか、そのいずれかじゃないと何のことやら見当も付かないでパニくるという結果になるかもしれませんねぇ。
2001/11/15(木) 記 |
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