1·Will zoologists ever know the evolutionary sequences in the Cambrian explosion?
动物学家们会知道寒武纪大爆发时期的进化顺序吗？
2·Quartz is quartz—a silicon ion surrounded by four oxygen ions—there's no difference at all between two-million-year-old Pleistocene quartz and Cambrian quartz created over 500 million years ago.
石英是石英——由四个氧离子围绕的硅离子——200万年前的更新世石英和5亿年前的寒武纪石英之间没有任何区别。
3·To be born during this, the Cambrian Explosion—why, I couldn't imagine a better period, really.
在寒武纪生物大爆发这时候降生-我实在没法设想一个更好的时代了，真的。
4·Like a gene in the Cambrian seas of the early Web, information was copied and recopied endlessly.
就像早期网络的“寒武纪海洋基因”那样，信息被无限地复制、再复制。
5·Sprigg was excited by both the unusual appearance of the fossils and by their age, which he believed to be the beginning of the Cambrian, and made them the oldest animal forms yet seen.
斯普里格感到十分兴奋，因为化石外观很不寻常，并且他相信化石上的生物属于寒武纪起始的那段时期，这样一来，化石上的生物便是当时发现的最古老的动物物种了。