The Anthropocene is a proposed geological period in which human activities have had a very important effect on the earth's environment and climate.

人类世是一个拟议的地质时期，在该时期人类活动对地球环境和气候产生非常重要的影响。

This period will seldom be remote in any extreme degree, as species rarely endure for more than one geological period.

这一时期很少会遥远到任何极端程度， 因为物种很少能存活超过一个地质时期。

How short his time, and consequently how poor will be his results, compared with those accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods!

与大自然在整个地质时期积累的成果相比， 他的时间是多么短暂， 结果将是多么糟糕！

Mr. Croll, in an interesting paper, remarks that we do not err " in forming too great a conception of the length of geological periods, " but in estimating them by years.

克罗尔先生在一篇有趣的论文中评论说， 我们“ 对地质时期的长度形成了一个过大的概念” 并没有错， 而是按年来估计它们。