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To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west by about a mile a year, which is clearly nonsense. (It's more like half an inch.) Above all, he could offer no convincing explanation for how the landmasses moved about. To believe in his theory you had to accept that massive continents somehow pushed through solid crust, like a plow1 through soil, without leaving any furrow2 in their wake. Nothing then known could plausibly3 explain what motored these massive movements.
1 plow | |
n.犁,耕地,犁过的地;v.犁,费力地前进[英]plough | |
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2 furrow | |
n.沟;垄沟;轨迹;车辙;皱纹 | |
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3 plausibly | |
似真地 | |
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4 geologist | |
n.地质学家 | |
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5 influential | |
adj.有影响的,有权势的 | |
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6 continental | |
adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的 | |
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7 radical | |
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的 | |
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8 fretted | |
焦躁的,附有弦马的,腐蚀的 | |
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9 irony | |
n.反语,冷嘲;具有讽刺意味的事,嘲弄 | |
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