正如研究者们所预料的那样,对于1955年以后生长的组织,其碳-14浓度与爆炸曲线严格吻合。
Indeed, for these the match was so good that their ages could be determined to within ayear of the truth.
的确,对于这些样品来说,吻合度如此之高,以至于对其年代的确定可精确到一年以内。
At the moment Dr Uno s technique costs 1,000 a pop, so some places, particularly poorercountries in Africa, might be reluctant to deploy it.
由于Uno博士的技术每次要耗费一千美元,因此有些地方,尤其是非洲更贫困的地区就可能不愿使用这种技术了。
But in the context of an illegal trade in ivory reckoned to be worth about 1 billion a year,that is not a huge amount of money.
但是,鉴于非法象牙贸易一年约价值十亿美元,这就不是一个大的数目了。
And if it helps preserve elephants, whose numbers in Africa have fallen from 1.3m to600,000 in the past 40 years, many would see it as money well spent.
而且,如果这种技术有助于保护大象,那么很多人会认为这个钱花得很值,因为在过去的40年里,大象的数量已从一百三十万下降到了六十万。
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