Reading Excerption (II)

point out: 表达某人观点
Marine Studio biologists have pointed out that, however intelligent they may be, it is probably a mistake to credit dolphines with any motive of life-saving.

(no matter) whether
Whether it be bird, fish or beast, the porpoicse is intrigued with anything that is alive.

eventually/consequently
Eventually, the turtle has been butted all the way down to the floor of the tank.

转移理由，承上启下
If it is not a question of resting the body, then perhaps it is the brain that needs resting?

分析原因
This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors. First... The second factor...

从经验获得
Experience teaches me that whatever a fellow guest may have of power to instruct or amuse when he is sitting in a chair, or standing on a hearth rug, quickly leaves him when he takes one out for a walk.

表明为什么
How it came about that snakes manufactured poison is a mystery.

尽管如此
Be that as it may, the nervee poison does its business with man fa more quickly than the blood poison.

join hands
And although no period or place in America history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.

形容速度的变化
The trickle became a stream; the stream has now become a torrent.

常见事实
As is often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used equally for good or evil.

两个方面的介绍
In the constrary school the duck is supreme.

nor
It tires not nor does it boast of its power.

从现象到原因
Each civilization is born, it culminates and it decays. There is a widespread testimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities.

说明一个理由
One allegation often made is that noise produces mental illness.

混淆因果关系
The the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.

讽刺
This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefather fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicines remains the same as theirs.

make demands on sb
The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demand on the taker beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste, and that is what all patients demand of their doctors---to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.

accord to
The Vctorians, realizing that the greatest happiness accorded to man is that provided by a happy marriage, endeavored to pretend that all their marriages were happy.

settle
In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of violent controversy; but the scientific dust has long since settled and today we can see even his famous clash with the Inquisition in something like its proper perspective.