a quarry still in operation
only just stopped being a working quarry.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020 — 第 2 / 10 章 · 3'04" · C1
Attenborough at the Disused Quarry, Explained：achingly intricate
Someone in a disused ironstone quarry remembers hunting fossils as a boy. An ammonite becomes the way into a larger story: evolution as slow, careful work, then a line in the rock where most of that work vanishes. "Life had no option but to rebuild."
あらすじ
In a disused ironstone quarry at Tilton, in the middle of England, someone recalls searching rocks as a boy for fossils he calls buried treasure. This ammonite is called Tiltonicerus because the first was found near this quarry in Tilton. In life the animal lived in its chamber and spread its tentacles to catch prey, 180 million years ago. Then come slow change and a line in the rock.
注目の表現
only justburied treasurein lifeby and large
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このシーンの表現
achingly intricate
extremely fine, almost painfully so
Achingly intricate praises nature's slow craft as almost painfully fine, not as a tired worker's complaint.
The lace on that dress is achingly intricate.
このシーンの他の表現
- only just
only a short time earlier
- buried treasure
hidden valuables, prized finds
- in life
while that creature was alive
- by and large
on the whole, roughly speaking
- undone
finished work that is cancelled
このシーンのメモ一覧
29 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ
time left for yourself
When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time searching through rocks in places like this...look carefully among a mass of things
When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time searching through rocks in places like this...hidden valuables, prized finds
The hunt is named buried treasure, and the next line shows the prize is a fossil, not gold.
for buried treasure.Let n run into the next vowel without a stop.
It's a creature called an ammonite.while that creature was alive
With the fossil in view, in life pulls the empty shell back to when the animal still hunted.
And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey.the official name used in science
This particular one has a scientific name of Tiltonicerus, because the first one ever was found near this quarry here in Tilton, in the middle of England.reason clause: Because gives the reason the fossil carries that place-name.
This particular one has a scientific name of Tiltonicerus, because the first one ever was found near this quarry here in Tilton, in the middle of England.gradually, as time passes
Over time, I began to learn something about the earth's evolutionary history.on the whole, roughly speaking
By and large sums up evolution as mostly slow, so the later wipeout can feel like a break.
By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change.shaped astonishing living forms
nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last.stepwise comparison: Each form is claimed to outdo the previous one.
nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last.extremely fine, almost painfully so
Achingly intricate praises nature's slow craft as almost painfully fine, not as a tired worker's complaint.
It's an achingly intricate labor.Stress achingly and let intricate come after it.
It's an achingly intricate labor.processes done with extreme care
after all those painstaking processes, something catastrophic happens,a very large quantity of
Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few.removed and succeeded by others
Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few.Make and very small before are.
Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few.evolution's gains cancelled not unfinished, but cancelled
All that evolution undone.verbless clause: With no verb, undone simply cancels the evolution just described.
All that evolution undone.relative clause: The that-clause defines what this boundary records.
A boundary that marks a profound, rapid, global change.too many to count one by one
Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms.locative inversion: The place comes first; the real subject follows are.
Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms.a die-off of many species at once
A mass extinction has happened five times in life's four-billion-year history.cause a whole era to finish
The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs.a disaster that rewrites conditions
A meteorite impact triggered a catastrophic change in the earth's conditions.destroyed until almost nothing remains
Wiped out delivers the meteorite's result as a clean erasure of most species, not a gentle exit.
75% of all species were wiped out.forced to do the only thing left
No option but to closes the count of the dead: rebuilding is what remained, not a cheer.
Life had no option but to rebuild.Keep to light and give the push to rebuild.
Life had no option but to rebuild.「Attenborough at the Disused Quarry」を読み解く
What's really going on
The speaker begins in a disused ironstone quarry that has only just stopped working, recalling spare time spent searching rocks for buried treasure. The treasure is an ammonite. In life the animal lived in the chamber and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey, 180 million years ago. "By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change." Over billions of years, "nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last." "It's an achingly intricate labor." Then, every hundred million years or so, catastrophe: a mass extinction. "Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few." "All that evolution undone." You can see it as a line in the rock layers. Below, a multitude of lifeforms; above, very few. It has happened five times in four billion years. The last, a meteorite, ended the dinosaurs and wiped out 75% of species. "Life had no option but to rebuild."
Theme
PhilosophyA quarry fossil is used to show slow change, intricate labor, and a line in the rock that undoes evolution.
SurvivalA meteorite ends the dinosaurs and wipes out 75% of species, so life has no option but to rebuild.
発音のポイント
- an ammonite — Let n run into the next vowel without a stop.
- achingly intricate — Stress achingly and let intricate come after it.
- and are — Make and very small before are.
- to rebuild — Keep to light and give the push to rebuild.
And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey.The ammonite, when it was alive about 180 million years ago, occupied this chamber and sent out tentacles to catch prey.
nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last.Across billions of years, nature shaped living forms so that each was more complex and more accomplished than the one before.
It's an achingly intricate labor.Building those forms was so fine and so demanding that the work itself feels almost painful.
Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few.In a mass extinction, vast numbers of species vanish at once, and only a few appear in their place.
75% of all species were wiped out.The meteorite that ended the dinosaurs erased 75% of species, leaving almost none of them.
Life had no option but to rebuild.After that wiping out, life had no other path except to start over.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the narration linger on an ammonite?
The ammonite is the buried treasure from boyhood searches through the rocks. In life the animal lived in the chamber and spread its tentacles to catch prey, about 180 million years ago. The name Tiltonicerus exists because the first was found near this quarry in Tilton, in the middle of England.
What does the line in the rock layers show?
A boundary marking profound, rapid, global change. Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms. Above, very few. The narration reads that line as a mass extinction: great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few, and all that evolution is undone.
What ended the age of the dinosaurs in this account?
A meteorite impact that triggered a catastrophic change in the earth's conditions. 75% of all species were wiped out. It was the most recent of five mass extinctions in life's four-billion-year history, and afterward life had no option but to rebuild.
Is this history presented as nothing but disaster?
No. By and large it is a story of slow, steady change. Over billions of years nature crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last. That labor is achingly intricate. Catastrophe comes after those painstaking processes, about every hundred million years.
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