The Pteraspis grins horribly from the closed entrance.

翼龙从封闭的入口处露出可怕的笑容。

Since the reign of Pteraspis, nothing had greatly changed; nothing except the monks.

自从 Pteraspis 统治以来， 一切都没有发生太大的变化。 除了僧侣，什么都没有。

Such men were forces of nature, energies of the prime, like the Pteraspis, but they made short work of scholars.

这些人是自然的力量， 是原始的能量， 就像翼龙一样， 但他们做的是学者的工作。

He could detect no more evolution in life since the Pteraspis than he could detect it in architecture since the Abbey.

他没能发现自翼龙以来生命的进化， 正如他没能发现自修道院以来的建筑进化。

Friends are born in archaic horizons; they were shaped with the Pteraspis in Siluria; they have nothing to do with the accident of space.

朋友生于古老的地平线；它们的形状与志留纪的翼龙相似；它们与空间事故无关。

For anything he, or any one else, knew, nine hundred and ninety nine parts of evolution out of a thousand lay behind or below the Pteraspis.

就他或其他任何人所知， 一千个进化部分中有九百九十九个部分位于翼龙之后或之下。

Neither in the Limulus nor in the Terebratula, nor in the Cestracion Philippi, any more than in the Pteraspis, could one conceive an ancestor, but, if one must, the choice mattered little.

无论是鲎、Terebratula、Cestracion Philippi， 还是 Pteraspis， 都不能设想一个祖先， 但是，如果必须的话， 选择无关紧要。