物种起源(英文版)

WItEN ON board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, Lwas much struck with certainfacts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America. and in thegeological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. Thesefacts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw somelight on the origin of species--that mystery of mysteries, as it h~as been called byone of our greatest philosophers. On my return home. it occurred to me. in I837,that something might perhaps be made out on this question by'pxatientlyaccumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have anybearing on it. After five years' work 1 allowed myself to speculate on the subject.and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in I844 into a sketch of theconclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the presentday I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused forentering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not beenhasty in coming to a decision.
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   《物种起源(英文修订版)》In I831, Darwin set out on H.M.S. Beagle as a self-financcd gentleman companion to the z0 year-old captain. Robert Fitzrov. On the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many variations among plants and animals of the same general type as those in South America. The expedition visited places around the world, and Darwin studied plants and animals evervwhere he went. Collecting specimens for further study. Upon his return to London in t836. Darwin conducted thorough research of his notes and] specimens. Out of this study grew several related theories: one. evolution did occur: two. evolutionarv change was gradual, requiring thousands to millions ofvears: three, the primary mechanism for evolution was a process called natural selection; and four, the millions of species alive today arose from a single original life form through a branching process called "speciation." 1831年12月，刚 刚从剑桥大学毕业的达尔文以博物学家的身份搭乘英国海军的小猎犬号的往美洲，始了为期五年的科学考察。准也不曾料想到，人类有史以来*深刻的思想革命由 此拉序幕：达尔文通过大量的事实证明，人类不是由上帝创造的，而是由猿猴化来的。这是当时的人们尤其是教会人士无论如何没法受的，难怪他们要在漫画 中将他画成一只阴郁的猴子了。 在近代史上，达尔文的化论对中国知识界的影响更是 建议上架：英语读物无与伦比。经过严复等一批步思想家的介绍、翻译，“物竟天择，适者生存”的思想在清木的社会中亦如石破天惊，成为现代思想运动的起，一时间仁人志士以化论的观提倡鼓民力、民智、新民德，号召救亡图存，可以说无一不从逃化论始。
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     达尔文，Charles Robert Darwin (i800-1882) was a splendid English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. Iie published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The scientific community and much of the general public came to accept ewolution as a fact in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary svnthesis from the 193os to the 195os that a broad consensus devel ped that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Darwin's work has continued to be celebrated by numerous publications and events. Darwin Day has become an annual celebration, and in 2009 w达尔文，rldwide events were' arranged for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 15oth anniversary of the pt, blication of On the Origin of Species.