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- The Karroo Basin in South Africa.
- 南非的卡鲁盆地。
- A region of hunting and inhospitable beauty.
- 一片神秘莫测与荒凉凄美的土地。
- This is an area where little grows and man and beast struggle to survive.
- 植物和动物以及人类只能在此挣扎求生。
- But it hasn't always been like this.
- 但它以前并不是这样。
- Almost 300 million years ago, during what scientists called the Permian period, it was an oasis.
- 大约是在3亿年前,也就是科学家们称为二叠纪的时代,它还是一块绿洲。
- The scene would have been low-lying plains, perhaps with mountains in the distance meandering rivers,
- 当时的景象应该是一片低洼平原,远处环绕着群山,近处有蜿蜒的河流,
- lots of plants around the sides of those rivers low plants like ferns and so on
- 河岸边植被葱郁,生长着像蕨类植物这样的低矮植物,
- and then in the background some trees of very unusual type.
- 背景则是许多千奇百怪的树木。
- This was a time millions of years before the dinosaurs when strange and half forgotten creatures walked the earth.
- 这是一个比恐龙还要早亿万年的时期,统治地球的是一些几乎被遗忘的奇特生物。
- They were called thorapsids half mammal, half reptile.
- 它们叫做兽孔类,兼具哺乳类和爬行类的特征。
- The first creatures ever to fullly conquer life on land.
- 是第一类完全称霸陆地的动物。
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如今,我们的世界生机盎然,随处可见活着的生灵。那么请想象一下所有这些生命有95%在一瞬间遭到了毁灭。这不是虚构的故事,它确实发生过。就在3亿年前的二迭纪,地球上还是一片丰饶繁荣的景象,然而2亿5千万年前的一场神秘事件导致了95%的物种灭绝,称为二迭纪生物大灭绝。这个凶残的杀手究竟是谁?是剧烈的地质运动、气候灾变,还是来自外太空的天体碰撞?为此,科学家们展开了一系列调查,试图解开“地球劫难日”惨剧背后的真相。
来源:可可英语 http://www.kekenet.com/Article/201906/587487.shtml