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There was one other major problem with Earth theories that no one had resolved, or even come close to resolving. That was the question of where all the sediments1 went. Every year Earth's rivers carried massive volumes of eroded2 material—500 million tons of calcium3, for instance—to the seas. If you multiplied the rate of deposition4 by the number of years it had been going on, it produced a disturbing figure: there should be about twelve miles of sediments on the ocean bottoms—or, put another way, the ocean bottoms should by now be well above the ocean tops. Scientists dealt with this paradox5 in the handiest possible way. They ignored it. But eventually there came a point when they could ignore it no longer.
1 sediments | |
沉淀物( sediment的名词复数 ); 沉积物 | |
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2 eroded | |
adj. 被侵蚀的,有蚀痕的 动词erode的过去式和过去分词形式 | |
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3 calcium | |
n.钙(化学符号Ca) | |
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4 deposition | |
n.免职,罢官;作证;沉淀;沉淀物 | |
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5 paradox | |
n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法;自相矛盾的人(物) | |
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6 harry | |
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼 | |
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7 cape | |
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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8 vessel | |
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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9 maneuvers | |
n.策略,谋略,花招( maneuver的名词复数 ) | |
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10 entirely | |
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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11 silts | |
v.(河流等)为淤泥淤塞( silt的第三人称单数 );(使)淤塞 | |
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