弗兰克·斯普里格斯是个非常能干的人,却不被人所知晓。
Frank Spriggs was a very able man but something of a closed book.
斯普里格斯说:“这是迄今为止我们最好的机会,我们可以借此了解拉皮塔人究竟是谁,他们来自哪里,以及他们现在最亲近的后代是谁。”
"This represents the best opportunity we've had yet," says Spriggs, "to find out who the Lapita actually were, where they came from, and who their closest descendants are today."
设计师彼得·斯普里格斯有一个大胆的设想。
斯普里格认为这是某种类似水母的软体动物化石。
Sprigg interpreted the patterns as the fossil remains of soft-bodied creatures like jellyfish or their relatives.
斯普里格于是转而研究石油、天然气、矿产这些回报更高的课题去了。
Sprigg moved on to other, more rewarding pursuits in the oil, gas, and mining industries.
一百年前,彼时《柳叶刀》的编辑斯夸尔·斯普里格写了一篇名为《1911的承诺》的文章。
A hundred years ago, Squire Sprigge, then editor of the Lancet, penned a piece entitled "the Promise of 1911".
尽管潜在的意义十分重大,斯普里格的这个发现却在一个国际会议上受到冷落,他描述这些化石的论文也被权威期刊退稿。
But despite their potential importance, Sprigg's discoveries were ignored at an international geology meeting and his paper describing the fossils was rejected by the leading journal,.
“我们正刚刚开始收集空气中的沙尘对健康影响的证据,”威廉斯·普里格(WilliamSprigg),亚利桑那大学的气候专家表示。
"We are just beginning to accumulate the evidence of airborne dust implications on health," said William Sprigg, a climate expert at Arizona University.
根据设计师彼得·斯普里格斯的设想,在空中运输工具因全球气候变暖导致的频繁自然灾害而无法进入特定区域时,这款概念车便可以披挂上阵。
Designer Peter Spriggs intendsLandstorm to be needed “when airborne vehicles will not be effective to reach aparticular area because of frequent natural disasters as a result of futureglobal warming.”
斯普里格感到十分兴奋,因为化石外观很不寻常,并且他相信化石上的生物属于寒武纪起始的那段时期,这样一来,化石上的生物便是当时发现的最古老的动物物种了。
Sprigg was excited by both the unusual appearance of the fossils and by their age, which he believed to be the beginning of the Cambrian, and made them the oldest animal forms yet seen.
她使无袖连衣裙成为她的标志性风格,并显示出独特的高低端品牌混搭的能力——从盖普、J·克鲁到迈克尔·科斯和纳西索·罗德里格斯等品牌的服装她都穿。
She's made a signature style out of sleeveless sheaths and shown an uncanny2 knack for mixing high and low - wearing everything from Gap and J.Crew to Michael Kors and Narciso Rodriguez.
石炭—二叠系和侏罗系烃源岩构成了天然气储量主体,探明了苏里格、克拉2和普光等大气田。
The main gas reserves are from the Carboniferous-Permian to the Jurassic source rocks, and some large gas fields were also discovered, such as Sulige, Kela 2 and Puguang large gas fields.
石炭—二叠系和侏罗系烃源岩构成了天然气储量主体,探明了苏里格、克拉2和普光等大气田。
The main gas reserves are from the Carboniferous-Permian to the Jurassic source rocks, and some large gas fields were also discovered, such as Sulige, Kela 2 and Puguang large gas fields.
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