That's over three times the age of the Earth.

这是地球年龄的三倍。

And people had began to try to work out if animals were on the planet before - you know, what was the age of the earth?

人们之前就开始尝试弄清楚地球上是否有动物——你知道，地球的年龄是多少？

We hope that it's given you an opportunity to appreciate not only the age of the Earth, but also the place of dinosaurs within that long history.

我们希望它能让您有机会不仅了解地球的年龄，还了解恐龙在漫长历史中的地位。

He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science, far greater than his work on thermodynamics.

他拒不接受那个修改的数字，直到临终那天还认为自己算出的地球年龄是对科学最有眼光、最重要的贡献，要比他在热力学方面的成果重要得多。

He invented the weather map and actuarial table, proposed methods for working out the age of the Earth and its distance from the Sun, even devised a practical method for keeping fish fresh out of season.

他发明了气象图和运算表，提出了测算地球的年龄和地球到太阳的距离的方法，甚至发明了一种把鱼类保鲜到淡季的实用方法。