渔业是极古老的生产事业之一,可能比农业还早。
Fishing is one of the primary forms of food production; it ranks with farming and probably predates it.
只有来自极深冰川的古老冰块才能反射出蓝色,这是由于成千年的压力所致。
Only very old ice from a very deep glacier (the result of hundreds of thousands of years of compression) reflects light as blue.
物理学家肖恩·卡罗尔(Sean Carroll)就是其中之一。他因为尝试去回答一个目前还没有科学家能够真正解释的古老问题,已经有了一点极客圈摇滚明星的感觉;这个问题就是:时间是什么?
Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time?
也许我们做不到,因为我们喜欢臆想,那句古老的咒语所言极是,我们就处在这么一个“人心惶惶的乱世”之中。
Perhaps we don't because we prefer to imagine, as the old curse goes, that we "live in interesting times."
《周易》是一部古老的卜筮书。但仅仅把它视为巫术,是极片面的。
It is extremely one sided to take Zhou Yi , an ancient book of divination, for sorcery.
Eske Willerslev教授是在沉淀物和有机体中进行DNA追踪的专家,最近世间最古老活细菌的发现者,他对这种新方法极感兴趣。
Professor Eske Willerslev, who is an expert in DNA-traces in sediments and organisms and who recently found the worlds oldest living bacteria, is enthusiastic about the new method.
Eske Willerslev教授是在沉淀物和有机体中进行DNA追踪的专家,最近世间最古老活细菌的发现者,他对这种新方法极感兴趣。
Professor Eske Willerslev, who is an expert in DNA-traces in sediments and organisms and who recently found the worlds oldest living bacteria, is enthusiastic about the new method.
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