Alpine village tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains.

阿尔卑斯山山区的小村几乎全是高山环抱、与世隔绝的穷乡僻壤。

The modern weather models work with a grid of points of the order of sixty miles apart,

现代气象模型以一个坐标图来显示，图中每个点大约是间隔60英里。

Snakes did not acquire their poison for use against man but for use against prey such as rats and mice, and the effects on these of viperine poison is almost immediate.

因为蛇有毒液不是用来对付人的，而是对付它的猎物，诸如鼠类，毒液对这些猎物会立刻起作用。

runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

从地质学上来说，它是大陆的一部分。

At the same time our sympathy for Galileo's opponents has grown somewhat.

与此同时，我们对伽利略的反对派的同情也有所增加。

becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending.

磨损太厉害，老得一点儿也不准了，最终会不值得修理了。