对达尔文的评价英文

对达尔文的评价英文

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对达尔文的评价英文篇一Charles(查尔斯) Darwin's whole life was changed by one lucky chance. In 1831, before he went on the voyage of the Beagle贝格尔号的航程, he was a very ordinary young man of twenty-two. No one in England--certainly not Darwin himself --had any idea of the future he had before him.

His sister Caroline gave him his first lessons. He was both lazy and naughty(nouty顽皮的), and everyone was glad that he went away to school after his mother's death when he was eight.

Charles soon became a keen collector. He collected anything that caught his interest: insects(昆虫类), seashells(贝壳), coins and interesting stones. He said later that his collection prepared him for his work as a naturalist.

He was not a very clever boy, but Charles was good at doing the things that interested him. He also took pleasure in carrying out experiments. But he could not learn Latin and Greek which in those days was an important part of education. He was a disappointment to his father, who was sure that he would bring nothing but shame to himself and his family.

In 1825, when Charles was sixteen, his father sent him to Edinburgh(爱丁堡re) to study medicine, saying ：“As you like natural history so much, perhaps we can make a doctor of you.”

But Charles found the lectures boring, and the dissections(剥离) frightening. But at Edinburgh ，he was able to go to natural history lectures. In 1826 he read a paper on sea-worms海船蛀虫 to the Natural History Society. This paper was his first known work on this subject.

Then his father decided to send Charles to Cambridge University to

study to become a priest.(牧师) With hard work, he did quite well. And, in the countryside around Cambridge, he was able to shoot, fish and collect insects.

He seemed likely to become a country priest like hundreds of others, sharing his time between his work and his interest in natural history and country life. He had a deep faith in God and a lasting interest in religion. At this time he did not doubt that every word of the Bible (圣经)was true.

Then a letter from Captain Robert Fitzroy菲茨罗伊 changed his life. Fitzroy was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship called the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended. That voyage was the start of Charles Darwin's great life work.

In those days a great many people believed that every word written in the Bible was true. Darwin hoped that the plants and animals that they found in the course of their voyage would prove the truth of the Bible story of the great Flood.

He began to observe everything. When they got to Rio de Janeiro里约热内卢 in South America, Charles was overcome with joy to see so many different creatures, so much life and color. His notebooks were full of detailed observations(观察值).

Then they reached dry land at Punta Alta. There Darwin discovered his first fossils(fosoo化石). Why, he wondered, were there horse bones at Punta Alta, when there had been no horses in the New World until Cortez 科尔特斯 brought his from Spain(西班牙sban)

They came to Tierra del Fuego火地岛 at the tip of South America. It was a strange place, with terrible storms. Its people grew no food, and they slept on the wet ground. Darwin observed their looks and habits.

“How can people be so different, if all are descended(从一个祖先传下来的) from Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden伊甸园?” Charles wondered.