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BBC纪录片地平线《恐龙灭绝真相》第17期:有孔虫

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  • Gerta Keller also had samples from the core.
  • Gerta Keller也有一些岩芯样本。
  • She was looking for something quite different.
  • 她正在观察一些很不寻常的东西。
  • I just scanned them very rapidly, and at first I didn't see anything,
  • 我大致看了一下,一开始没有什么发现,
  • and then I began to see some shapes that looked familiar.
  • 后来我开始观察一些相似的结构。
  • What Keller thought she had seen, were microscopic plankton fossils called forams,
  • Keller认为她看到的是一种叫做有孔虫的微小浮游生物的化石,
  • but they were poorly preserved and it took an expert eye to make them out.
  • 但它们保存得很不完整,只有专家的眼光才能发现它们。
  • This is a 3D image of a perfect foraminifera.
  • 这是完整有孔虫的3D图像。
  • This is what we found in the core, it is a cross section of the same species.
  • 这是我们在岩芯中发现的,这幅横截面上的是同一种类。
  • This is another 3D image, you see five chambers arranged in a circle,
  • 这是另一幅3D图像,你可以看到圈的周围有5个小室,
  • you can see the same chambers in the cross section.
  • 这幅横截面上有很多这样的小室。
  • Here is another species, each of the segments come to a pinched end, and the same you can see on the cross section.
  • 这是另一种,每一部分都有收缩末端,它们同样遍布整个横截面。
  • All these species went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs,
  • 所有这些物种都与恐龙同时灭绝,
  • yet Keller had found their fossils in rock, formed after the Chicxulub impact.
  • 可是Keller在岩层中发现的这些化石却是在希克苏鲁伯大碰撞后形成的。
  • For Keller the meaning of the discovery was clear.
  • 对于Keller来说,这一发现的结论不言而喻。


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microscopic ['maikrə'skɔpik]

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adj. 显微镜的,极小的,微观的

 
impact ['impækt,im'pækt]

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n. 冲击(力), 冲突,影响(力)
vt.

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species ['spi:ʃiz]

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n. (单复同)物种,种类

 
core [kɔ:]

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n. 果心,核心,要点
vt. 挖去果核

 
circle ['sə:kl]

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n. 圈子,圆周,循环
v. 环绕,盘旋,包围

 
extinct [iks'tiŋkt]

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adj. 灭绝的,熄灭的,耗尽的

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preserved [pri'zə:vd]

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adj. 保藏的;腌制的;[美俚]喝醉的

 

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