One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England,

一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。

so that it multiplied with that promiscuous abandon characteristic of rabbits.

因此便以兔子所特有的杂乱交配迅猛繁殖起来。

It was not forced upon them by the survival competition; they could have caught and lived on prey without using poison, just as the thousands of non-poisonous snakes still do.

毒液不是生存竞争强加给它们的，它们也可以不用毒液捕捉动物而生存，就像今天成千上万的无毒蛇那样。

the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea.

在1628年，一艘大帆船在处女航开始时就沉没了，这个流传至今的故事无疑是航海史上最离奇的事件之一。

among historians of science a new and more sophisticated picture has emerged.

但在科学史家中间，一个新的更加复杂的伽利略的形象出现了。

It is best to keep to hot drinks, bottled or canned drinks of well-known brand names----

最好仅饮用开水，名牌瓶装或罐装水