【万物简史】PART III CH 12大地在移动（7）_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 III CH 12大地在移动（7）

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然而，在别处，新理论受到了坚决的同时又是谨慎的支持。1950年，英国科学促进协会在年会上进行了一次表决，大约半数代表已欣然接受了大陆漂移的观点。美国也并非没有大陆漂移观点的人。最能有机会证明大陆漂移的机构是石油公司，开采石油的他们最了解地质结构学，也必然知道大陆是移动的。然而他们只采油，不搞学术~~~

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Elsewhere, however, the new theory drew steady if cautious support. In 1950, a vote at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science showed that about half of those present now embraced the idea of continental drift. ([---1---]) Curiously, Holmes himself sometimes wavered in his conviction. In 1953 he confessed: “[---2---]; in my geological bones, [-3-], I feel the hypothesis is a fantastic one.”

Continental drift was not entirely without support in the United States. Reginald Daly of Harvard spoke for it, but he, you may recall, was the man who suggested that the Moon had been formed by a cosmic impact, and his ideas tended to be considered interesting, even worthy, [-4-][---5---]

Interestingly, [---6---]But oil geologists didn’t write academic papers; they just found oil.