Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

  • -- Robert T. Bakker 罗伯特T.巴克

海洋生物的灭绝常常与陆地生物同时发生。再一次,冰河时代的灭绝使许多大型动物灭绝,但没有多少海洋动物灭绝。

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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

在人类的事务中有一种潮流,它在大浪中掀起,带来财富。如果略去,他们一生的旅途都是在浅滩和苦难中度过的。我们现在漂浮在这样一个波涛汹涌的大海上。我们必须顺应潮流,否则我们的冒险就会失败。

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

当你的生活还在为付车款、房租和账单发愁时,你已经被这些事情搞得焦头烂额,根本没有时间去了解自己。那就是生存和生活。

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

这就是我们的问题所在。如果我们夷平这么多土地来种水稻之类的,那么除了一些害虫之外,就没有其他动物能在那里生存了。这是非常不幸的。

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

这是一片充满机遇的土地,这是为拥挤的人群提供的土地,如果没有那些愤怒的印第安部落的种族灭绝,哪里还有机会呢?

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

人们对小事的敏感和对大事的漠不关心,表明了一种奇怪的颠倒。

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

对智者说句话是不必要的——需要忠告的是愚蠢的人。

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

海洋是一个中心意象。这是一次伟大旅程的象征。

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

最疯狂的是,我们生活在一个海洋星球上——现在还没有人明白这一点。

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

在我成长的过程中,我没有花很多时间和父母在一起。

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

酒淹死的人比海淹死的人还多。