I returned to my seat. The signal for raising the curtain was given. Ernest came back to his place beside me.

我回到自己的座位。舞台上几声响，演出开始。埃奈斯特回到我的身边。

But the real whopper was the Permian extinction of about 245 million years ago, which raised the curtain on the long age of the dinosaurs.

但是，真正厉害的是大约24500万年前的二叠纪灭绝，它为漫长的恐龙时代揭开了序幕。

In a few minutes he was sleeping the sleep of a tired, satisfied and drunken man worn out with cold and weariness. Raisky went to the window, raised the curtain, and looked out into the dark, starlit night.

几分钟后，他睡着了，就像一个疲倦、满足、醉酒的人，因寒冷和疲倦而疲惫不堪。莱斯基走到窗前，掀开窗帘，望向窗外漆黑、星光璀璨的夜空。