英语翻译
The failure of researchers to find simple power laws for the entireatmosphere says more about their naivety than about Richardson’s idea,but it cast a long shadow over attempts to apply fractals tometeorology,as Lovejoy himself discovered early in his research career.Inspired by the work of the French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot,whocoined the term "fractal" in the 1970s,Lovejoy devoted half of hisdoctoral thesis to evidence for power laws governing rainfall."I wasgetting ready to move on to my postdoctoral research when I learnedthat my thesis had been rejected," he recalls."The examiner couldn’tsee any connection between fractals and rainfall and I was advised toremove all references to it."
好好回答的朋友一定有额外加分（当然也没有逐字逐句翻译的必要就是了）~