Yuval Noah Harariの "Sapiens" を読んでいます。 'The Flood' の章から引用します。
Following the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens acquired the technology, the organisational skills, and perhaps even the vision necessary to break out of Afro-Asia and settle the Outer World. Their first achievement was the colonisation of Australia some 45,000 years ago. Experts are hard-pressed to explain this feat. In order to reach Australia, humans had to cross a number of sea channels, some more than 60 miles wide, and upon arrival they had to adapt nearly overnight to a completely new ecosystem.
著者はイスラエル人ですが、オックスフォード大学で学んでおり、当然ながら "organisational" や "colonisation" の様にイギリス英語のスペルを使っています。
"hard-pressed" は5/26/2010に取り上げていました。
Following the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens acquired the technology, the organisational skills, and perhaps even the vision necessary to break out of Afro-Asia and settle the Outer World. Their first achievement was the colonisation of Australia some 45,000 years ago. Experts are hard-pressed to explain this feat. In order to reach Australia, humans had to cross a number of sea channels, some more than 60 miles wide, and upon arrival they had to adapt nearly overnight to a completely new ecosystem.
著者はイスラエル人ですが、オックスフォード大学で学んでおり、当然ながら "organisational" や "colonisation" の様にイギリス英語のスペルを使っています。
"hard-pressed" は5/26/2010に取り上げていました。
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