He was a regular Cuvier of bric-a-brac.

他是小古董的普通居维叶。

What can be this cetacean, which neither Cuvier nor Blumenbach knew anything about?

居维叶和布鲁门巴赫都不知道的这只鲸类动物到底是什么？

Cuvier wanted to turn natural history into a science that would rank with physics and chemistry.

【rank】居维叶想把自然历史变成和物理化学一样重要的科学。

Agassiz had studied under Cuvier in Paris and now held the post of Professor of Natural History at the College of Neuchatel in Switzerland.

阿加西斯曾在巴黎师从居维叶，当时担任瑞士纳沙泰尔州立学院自然史教授。

The expression of conditions of existence, so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier, is fully embraced by the principle of natural selection.

杰出的居维叶 (Cuvier) 经常坚持的生存条件的表达完全被自然选择的原则所接受。

At the same time he showed himself to be a peerless anatomist with instincts for reconstruction almost on a par with the great Cuvier in Paris.

同时，他证明自己是个无与伦比的解剖学家，具有很强的复原本能，几乎可以与巴黎伟大的居维叶相比。

Cuvier used to urge that no monkey occurred in any tertiary stratum; but now extinct species have been discovered in India, South America and in Europe, as far back as the miocene stage.

居维叶曾经敦促任何第三层都没有猴子出现；但现在已经在印度、 南美洲和欧洲发现了灭绝的物种， 早在中新世阶段。

Then, whilst lodging in the Rue Cuvier, he had married the daughter of his doorkeeper, a petty Alsatian tailor, and from that day onward he had bowed submissively before his wife, whose commercial ability filled him with respect.

然后，在居维叶街住宿期间，他娶了他门房的女儿，一个阿尔萨斯小裁缝，从那天起，他对妻子恭恭敬敬，对她的商业能力充满敬意。