A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
灭绝
Extinction
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
拒绝学习的人应该被消灭。
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
灭绝是规律。生存是个例外。
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
人类的物质灭绝是一种可能性。
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
在绝迹的景观中，精确是近乎神圣的。
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
在物种灭绝期间，陆桥随处可见，许多物种在传播，还有许多疾病。
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
大多数进化的血统，无论是人类还是其他物种，在面临灭绝的威胁时，都不会做任何特别的事情来避免它。
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
它们中的大多数注定会迅速灭绝，但也有少数可能会做出进化性的发明，比如生理、生态或行为创新，从而提高这些物种的竞争潜力。
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
我认为灭绝是解释分离物种的最好方法。我看到，同样的原因一定使许多种类从大范围缩小到小范围，也可能使大属缩小到小属和小科。