到1830年，地质学会已经发展到745名会员，世界上再也不会出现那种情况。地质学激活了19世纪的人，抓住了他们的注意力~~~
❤《万物简史》推出部落节目版，戳这里订阅:http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/6004/
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,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据上下文注意各句标号，这样有助于提高正确率。特别是长句听写，用符号做笔记，这样可以为训练听译打基础哦~~~
The members met twice a month from November until June, when virtually all of them went off to spend the summer doing [-1-]. These weren’t people with a pecuniary interest in minerals, you understand, or even academics for the most part, [---2---]. By 1830, there were 745 of them, and the world would never see the like again.
It is hard to imagine now, but geology excited the 19th century—positively [-3-] it—in a way that no science [-4-]. In 1839, when Roderick Murchison published The Silurian System, a plump and ponderous study of a type of rock called greywacke, it was an instant bestseller, [-5-] through four editions, even though it cost eight guineas a copy and was, in true Huttonian style, [-6-]. (As even a Murchison supporter conceded, it had “a total want of [-7-] attractiveness.”) And when, in 1841, the great Charles Lyell traveled to America to give a series of lectures in Boston, sellout audiences of 3000 at a time [-8-] the Lowell Institute to hear his tranquilizing descriptions of marine zeolites and seismic perturbations in Campania.
❤《万物简史》推出部落节目版，戳这里订阅:http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/6004/
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,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据上下文注意各句标号，这样有助于提高正确率。特别是长句听写，用符号做笔记，这样可以为训练听译打基础哦~~~
The members met twice a month from November until June, when virtually all of them went off to spend the summer doing [-1-]. These weren’t people with a pecuniary interest in minerals, you understand, or even academics for the most part, [---2---]. By 1830, there were 745 of them, and the world would never see the like again.
It is hard to imagine now, but geology excited the 19th century—positively [-3-] it—in a way that no science [-4-]. In 1839, when Roderick Murchison published The Silurian System, a plump and ponderous study of a type of rock called greywacke, it was an instant bestseller, [-5-] through four editions, even though it cost eight guineas a copy and was, in true Huttonian style, [-6-]. (As even a Murchison supporter conceded, it had “a total want of [-7-] attractiveness.”) And when, in 1841, the great Charles Lyell traveled to America to give a series of lectures in Boston, sellout audiences of 3000 at a time [-8-] the Lowell Institute to hear his tranquilizing descriptions of marine zeolites and seismic perturbations in Campania.
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从11月到次年6月，会员每月碰头两次，因为到这个时候，实际上所有的人都已出门，整个夏天在做野外工作。你要知道，这些人出去找矿石不是为了挣钱，在大多数情况下甚至也不是学者。它不过是既有钱又有时间的绅士在不大专业的层面上从事的一种爱好。到1830年，已经发展到745名会员，世界上再也不会出现那种情况。
这种情形在现在是难以想像的，但地质学激活了19世纪的人--完全抓住了他们的注意力--这是任何科学以前没有过，或许将来也不会有的情况。1839年，罗德里克•默奇森出版了《志留纪体系》，一本又厚又重的书，研究一种名叫杂砂岩的岩石。它顿时成为一本畅销书，很快出了4版，虽然一册要卖到8个几尼，而且具有真正的赫顿风格，即毫无可读性。（连默奇森的支持者也承认，它"毫无文学作品的魅力"。）而当伟大的查尔斯•莱尔于1841年去美国，在波士顿开设一系列讲座的时候，每次都有3000名听众挤进洛韦尔学院，静静地听他描述海洋沸石和地震在坎帕尼亚引起的震动。