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There is a word for this type of climate: monsoon,
這類氣候有一個稱謂，季風
but Judy's theory is that this was a monsoon like no other, a mega-monsoon.
Judy的觀點是它不是一般季風，而是超級季風
The word monsoon comes from an Arabic word that means season,
“季風”這個詞來自阿拉伯語，意思是季節(jié)
so a mega-monsoon is where that really goes to extremes.
超級季風則是非常極端的氣候
This climate of extremes, veering from very wet to very hot and dry, was unique to the super-continent.
這類極端氣候--從濕潤多雨到酷熱干旱，是超大陸的一大特點
One of the things that would have been characteristic of this very strong monsoonal system
必須提到一點，這種強大無比的季風系的特點
is that you would have had a similar climate over a very large part of the world,
表現(xiàn)為世界上大片地區(qū)都有類似的氣候
so this would have been a world in which the environments were not particularly diverse.
也就是說當時世界上的環(huán)境并不是很多變
According to the theory, a uniform world led to uniform animals.
根據(jù)這種觀點，相同的世界造就了相同的動物
This was why the early dinosaurs lacked variety
這也是早期恐龍種類很少的原因
and as long as the super-continent existed nothing much was going to change,
只要超大陸不復存在，很多情況就會發(fā)生變化
but then of course something did change.
當然，后來的確發(fā)生了變化
As the super-continent broke up areas that had been landlocked for millions of years would have been surrounded by water.
隨著超大陸的崩解，原先封閉的內(nèi)陸地區(qū)逐漸被水包圍。
