Charles Lyell made a good estimate of the Tertiary Period from the fossil record, but his method could not be extended to earlier geological periods.

查尔斯·莱尔根据化石记录对第三纪作出了很好的估计，但他的方法不能扩展到更早的地质时期。

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H. Huxley and Charles Lyell, insisted the age of the Earth must be in the hundreds of millions.

赫胥黎和查尔斯·莱尔则更坚持地球一定有上亿岁了。

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My friends Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker had studies by both men presented to the scientific group .

我的两个朋友已经将他们合作写的论文上交给科学小组了。

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In July of that year, Darwin's friends Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker had studies by both men presented to the scientific group called the Linnean Society of London.

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