Fossils of sea creatures peel out of the stone, and in a slick of mud we find a rusty horseshoe-a relic from an animal that worked down here more than a century ago, hauling stones.

海洋生物的化石嵌在石壁上，在一块腐烂的泥土里我们找到了一块马蹄铁。这是几世纪前一匹在这里搬运石料的马留下的遗物。

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The protons and neutrons that form the nuclei of every atom today are relic droplets of that primordial sea, tiny subatomic prison cells in which quarks thrash back and forth, chained forever.

今日构成原子核的质子和中子，正是太初海洋残存的小水滴，夸克在这微小的次原子牢笼里来回踱步，永远禁锢。

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The Antiballistic Missile Treaty (ABM), which rules out sea- and space-based systems, is a Cold War relic.

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