Milankovitch realized that the problem with Croll's theory was not that it was incorrect but that it was too simple.

他发现，克罗尔的理论的问题并不是它不正确，而是它太简单。

So there was some surprise, and perhaps just a touch of embarrassment, when it turned out that Croll was not an academic at the university, but a janitor.

可是，当人们了解到该文的作者克罗尔并不是该大学的研究人员，而只是一名普通职员的时候，他们于惊讶之余，也许还有一丝尴尬。

Thanks almost entirely to Croll's persuasive theory, people in Britain began to become more responsive to the notion that at some former time parts of the Earth had been in the grip of ice.

多亏克罗尔富有说服力的理沦，英国人开始接受关于地球上的有些地区在以前某个时期处于冰川控制的观点。