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  It was scored everywhere with canyons1, trenches2, and crevasses3 and dotted with volcanic4 seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist5 named Arnold Guyot. All this was a puzzle, but Hess had a war to take part in, and put such thoughts to the back of his mind.
  那里到处都是悬崖、沟壑和裂缝,还有星罗棋布的海底火山,即平顶海山。他称其为盖约特,以纪念早年普林斯顿大学的地质学家阿诺德·盖约特。这一切都是个谜,但赫斯的任务是打仗,他便把这些想法搁置脑后了。
  After the war, Hess returned to Princeton and the preoccupations of teaching, but the mysteries of the seafloor continued to occupy a space in his thoughts. Meanwhile, throughout the 1950s oceanographers were undertaking6 more and more sophisticated surveys of the ocean floors. In so doing, they found an even bigger surprise: the mightiest7 and most extensive mountain range on Earth was—mostly—underwater.
  战争结束以后,赫斯回到普林斯顿,主要从事教学工作,但海底之谜仍在他的脑海里占有一席之地。与此同时,在整个20世纪50年代,海洋学家对海底的考察日渐深入。在此过程中,他们发现了一件更加出人意料的事:地球上最雄伟、最大的山脉是在──主要部分是在──水下。
  海底结构
  It traced a continuous path along the world's seabeds, rather like the stitching on a baseball. If you began at Iceland, you could follow it down the center of the Atlantic Ocean, around the bottom of Africa, and across the Indian and Southern Oceans, below Australia; there it angled across the Pacific as if making for Baja California before shooting up the west coast of the United States to Alaska. Occasionally its higher peaks poked8 above the water as an island or archipelago—the Azores and Canaries in the Atlantic, Hawaii in the Pacific, for instance—but mostly it was buried under thousands of fathoms9 of salty sea, unknown and unsuspected. When all its branches were added together, the network extended to 46,600 miles.
  它沿着世界的海床不断延伸,犹如网球上的花纹。要是从冰岛开始向南进发,你顺着这山脉可以抵达大西洋的中心,然后绕过非洲底部,越过印度洋和南太平洋,进入澳大利亚下方的太平洋;接着,它从斜里穿越太平洋,仿佛要去加利福尼亚半岛,实际上突然隆起,成为美国本土到阿拉斯加的西海岸。偶尔,它的山峰戳出水面,形成海岛或群岛──比如,大西洋上的亚速尔群岛和加那利群岛、太平洋上的夏威夷群岛,但大部分淹没在几公里深的海水下面,无人知晓,无人想到。如果把所有的支脉加在一起,该山脉总长达75000公里。

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1 canyons 496e35752729c19de0885314bcd4a590     
n.峡谷( canyon的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • This mountain range has many high peaks and deep canyons. 这条山脉有许多高峰和深谷。 来自辞典例句
  • Do you use canyons or do we preserve them all? 是使用峡谷呢还是全封闭保存? 来自互联网
2 trenches ed0fcecda36d9eed25f5db569f03502d     
深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕
参考例句:
  • life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
  • The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕,并在田野上呈扇形散开。
3 crevasses 859ae07b3009b485bbb43243de865740     
n.破口,崩溃处,裂缝( crevasse的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Splays are commonly formed by currents from crevasses in levees. 嗽叭形堆积通常由堤防决口的洪流所形成。 来自辞典例句
  • The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses. 冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。 来自辞典例句
4 volcanic BLgzQ     
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
参考例句:
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
5 geologist ygIx7     
n.地质学家
参考例句:
  • The geologist found many uncovered fossils in the valley.在那山谷里,地质学家发现了许多裸露的化石。
  • He was a geologist,rated by his cronies as the best in the business.他是一位地质学家,被他的老朋友们看做是这门行当中最好的一位。
6 undertaking Mfkz7S     
n.保证,许诺,事业
参考例句:
  • He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
  • He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业。
7 mightiest 58b12cd63cecfc3868b2339d248613cd     
adj.趾高气扬( mighty的最高级 );巨大的;强有力的;浩瀚的
参考例句:
  • \"If thou fearest to leave me in our cottage, thou mightiest take me along with thee. “要是你害怕把我一个人留在咱们的小屋里,你可以带我一块儿去那儿嘛。 来自英汉文学 - 红字
  • Silent though is, after all, the mightiest agent in human affairs. 确实,沉默毕竟是人类事件中最强大的代理人。 来自互联网
8 poked 87f534f05a838d18eb50660766da4122     
v.伸出( poke的过去式和过去分词 );戳出;拨弄;与(某人)性交
参考例句:
  • She poked him in the ribs with her elbow. 她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。
  • His elbow poked out through his torn shirt sleeve. 他的胳膊从衬衫的破袖子中露了出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 fathoms eef76eb8bfaf6d8f8c0ed4de2cf47dcc     
英寻( fathom的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The harbour is four fathoms deep. 港深为四英寻。
  • One bait was down forty fathoms. 有个鱼饵下沉到四十英寻的深处。

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