到19世纪中叶，大多数学者认为地球的年龄起码有几百万年，甚至也许几千万年，但也很可能没有那么大。1859年爱好获得精确数字查尔斯•达尔文在《物种起源》一书中宣称，英格兰南部的一个地区的地质进程花了306662400年时间才完成~~~
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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文，也不用写序号。答完一空换行继续下一空作答。文中需听写单词或词组用[-No-]表示，句子用[---No---]表示。请边听写边理解文意，根据下面的TIPS训练听写。这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~
TIPS听写训练点：单词拼写，时态，单复数，连读，长难句（请边听边用符号先记下内容，然后自己回头组织语句，最后校对，不要逐字逐句听写）
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Hint:
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[---1---] So it came as a surprise when, in 1859 in On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin announced that the geological processes that created the Weald, an area of southern England [-2-] Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, had taken, by his calculations, 306,662,400 years to complete. [---3---] Darwin loved an exact number. In a later work, he announced that the number of [-4-] to be found in an average acre of English country soil was 53,767. It proved so [-5-] that Darwin [-6-] it from the third edition of the book. [---7---] Darwin and his geological friends needed the Earth to be old, but no one could figure out a way to make it so.
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❤《万物简史》推出部落节目版，戳这里订阅:http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/6004/
450)=450">
书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文，也不用写序号。答完一空换行继续下一空作答。文中需听写单词或词组用[-No-]表示，句子用[---No---]表示。请边听写边理解文意，根据下面的TIPS训练听写。这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~
TIPS听写训练点：单词拼写，时态，单复数，连读，长难句（请边听边用符号先记下内容，然后自己回头组织语句，最后校对，不要逐字逐句听写）
450)=450">
Hint:
arrestingly
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[---1---] So it came as a surprise when, in 1859 in On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin announced that the geological processes that created the Weald, an area of southern England [-2-] Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, had taken, by his calculations, 306,662,400 years to complete. [---3---] Darwin loved an exact number. In a later work, he announced that the number of [-4-] to be found in an average acre of English country soil was 53,767. It proved so [-5-] that Darwin [-6-] it from the third edition of the book. [---7---] Darwin and his geological friends needed the Earth to be old, but no one could figure out a way to make it so.
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By the middle of the 19th century most learned people thought the Earth was at least a few million years old, perhaps even some tens of millions of years old, but probably not more than that.
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The assertion was remarkable partly for being so arrestingly specific but even more for flying in the face of accepted wisdom about the age of the Earth.
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The problem at its heart remained, however.
到19世纪中叶，大多数学者认为地球的年龄起码有几百万年，甚至也许几千万年，但也很可能没有那么大。因此，当1859年查尔斯•达尔文在《物种起源》一书中宣称，根据他的计算，创造威尔德地区--英格兰南部的一个地区，包括肯特、萨里和苏塞克斯--的地质进程花了306662400年时间才完成时，人们不由得大吃一惊。这个结论是很了不起的，部分原因是他说得那么确切，但更因为是他公然不顾公认的有关地球年龄的看法。达尔文热衷于用精确的数字表达。在随后的一部著作中，他发表文章称英国农村的土壤中，每英亩可找到的蠕虫数量有53767之多（本句翻译：ROCK。欢迎指正！）。结果，它引起了激烈的争议，达尔文在该书的第三版中收回了他的看法。然而，问题实际上依然存在。达尔文和他的地质界朋友希望地球很古老，但谁也想不出办法。