1·When it came, they were all glued to their televisions - a Jesuit priest in New York, an engineering professor in rural Oregon, a geophysicist in San Diego.
当海啸来临的时候，一个纽约的基督教神父，一个俄勒冈州的工程学教授，一个圣地亚哥的地球物理学家都盯着电视。
2·We call them great earthquakes. Everybody else calls them horrible, said USGS geophysicist Ken Hudnut.
美国地质调查局的地球物理学家肯•赫德纳特说：“我们称它们为超级地震，它们的力量十分可怕。”
3·"We call them great earthquakes. Everybody else calls them horrible," said USGS geophysicist Ken Hudnut.
美国地质调查局的地球物理学家肯•赫德纳特说：“我们称它们为超级地震，它们的力量十分可怕。”
4·Geophysicist Emile Okal agreed that the the tsunami spawned by the Chile earthquake wasn't really all that small.
地球物理学家埃米尔。欧卡尔认为智利地震产生的海啸其实真的不算小。
5·"I think we're in basic agreement on" the habitability of the Hadean, says geophysicist Norman Sleep of Stanford University in Stanford, California, who has done similar calculations.
“我认为，我们在冥古代适于生存的问题上意见基本一致，”加州斯坦福大学的地球物理学家诺曼·斯利普说。