【万物简史】PART II CH 5敲石头的人们（12）_英语听力练习mp3下载-科学-沪江听力酷

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【万物简史】PART II CH 5敲石头的人们（12）

听力简介：

在赫顿时代和莱尔时代之间，地质学界发生了一场新的争论——灾变论和均变论之争。莱尔认为，地球的变迁是一贯的，缓慢的。他和他的信徒们不但瞧不起灾变论，而且对它深恶痛绝~~~

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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据下面的TIPS训练听写。这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~

TIPS听写训练点：单词拼写，时态，单复数，连读，长难句（请边听边用符号先记下内容，然后自己回头组织语句，最后校对，不要逐字逐句听写）

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Uniformitarian
Catastrophist

Between Hutton's day and Lyell's there arose a new geological [-1-], which largely superseded, [-2-], the old Neptunian–Plutonian dispute. The new battle became an argument between catastrophism and uniformitarianism—unattractive terms for an important and very [-3-] dispute. Catastrophists, as you might expect from the name, believed that the Earth was shaped by abrupt cataclysmic events—floods principally, which is why catastrophism and neptunism are often wrongly bundled together. Catastrophism was particularly comforting to clerics like Buckland because it allowed them to [-4-] the biblical flood of Noah into serious scientific discussions. [---5---] Hutton was much more the father of the notion than Lyell, but it was Lyell most people read, and so he became in most people's minds, then and now, the father of modern geological thought.

Lyell believed that the Earth's shifts were uniform and steady—[---6---]. Lyell and his adherents didn't just disdain catastrophism, they detested it. [---7---]—a belief that the naturalist T. H. Huxley mockingly likened to "a succession of rubbers of whist, at the end of which the players upset the table and called for a new pack." It was too convenient a way to explain the unknown. "Never was there a dogma [-8-] foster indolence, and [-9-] ," sniffed Lyell.