还有他的祖父——也许是所有人中影响他最深的一个人，因为他对这个属于海洋的男人的喜爱始终贯穿于全书，这一点就像潮水的涨退一样确信不疑。

And Mr Rush's grandfather-perhaps the most influential of all, for the flavour of this man of the sea runs throughout the book as certainly as the ebb and flood of the tides.

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在更新世和更早的海洋沉积物中埋藏的化石生物属于孔虫类生物，它们是微小的单细胞海洋生物，其分泌的硬壳由碳酸钙和方解石组成。

The fossils buried in Pleistocene and earlier ocean sediments were of foraminifera—small, single-celled marine organisms that secrete shells of calcium carbonate, or calcite.

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上龙属于一种蛇颈龙，蛇颈龙是一亿五千万年前统治海洋的一种大型水栖爬行动物，其存在时期约与恐龙游荡地球同期。

Pliosaurs were a form of plesiosaur, a group of giant aquatic reptiles that terrorised the ocean 150m years ago, around the same time that dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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