Day3 科学简史反思

go back, date back ,确切的日期，给物品定年代的，

we'v been friends foe long; we go way back since..

write widely on science ,

It has twice the weight of another, twice as heavy

form a theory to explain what is going on, and then carry on an experiment to see whether the theory works

pick holes in the argument

in orbit around/round the sun,不用the，不是具体的圈 out of shape try to be in shape, in bed 只是一种状态 ，不是具体一张床，

alpha particles bounced back off the paper, step off of the train ,从火车里面出来，由内忧外，step off the wall, 只是远离了这个墙 the pingpang is bouncing on the table

artillery shall 炮弹壳

all the more,

in some degree, in some measure, in some extend ,

outlook

an attitude or point of view

expectations for the future, especially with respect to a particular situation

a view seen from a place

an idea about what a situation will be like in the future

your general attitude toward things

前景 观点 人生观 景色 外观

eclipse

日食；月食an occasion when the moon passes between the earth and the sun so that you cannot see all or part of the sun for a time; an occasion when the earth passes between the moon and the sun so that you cannot see all or part of the moon for a time

（重要性、权势等的）丧失，黯然失色，暗淡a loss of importance, power, etc. especially because sb/sth else has become more important, powerful, etc.

v.~ sth 遮住…的光to cause an eclipse

~ sb/sth 使失色；使相形见绌；使丧失重要性to make sb/sth seem dull or unimportant by comparison

mediterranean 地中海 地中海风格 地中海居民

magnificent 壮观的 富丽堂皇的

ingenious 精巧的 有创意的 巧妙的 机灵的

alchemy 炼金术

flourish 繁荣 兴旺 茁壮成长

distillation蒸馏

Arabic numeral 阿拉伯数字

monopoly 专制

learn 学会 learn of 了解

Belgian anatomist Andreas produced AA, which described his dissections of human corpses with exquisite illustrations.

anatomist 解剖学家 剖析者

dissection  解剖,分类,切割作用,解剖标本,剥离,剖分,切开

corpse 死尸 尸首

exquisite 精美的 精致的 强烈的

illustration 插图 图解 图示 ，illustrator插画家 illustrate 给 配插图

skeptical 怀疑的

laid foundation ,form basis ,

a host of 一大堆的

open up new fields of science ,in to which marched Danish physicist

thermodynamics 热力学的 使用热动力的

geologist 地质学家 strata  stratum 的复数 地层 layer 层

proposed 被提出

demonstrate 证明 推演 示范

leapfrog 跳跃式前进

The idea of Big Bang began to take root.

chromosomes 染色体

inheritance 遗传 遗产 继承权 遗传特征

falsify ,disprove, bring an entire theory crushing down,整个理论坍塌，quash ,discredit,

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今天又听了一次录音，将文章中从头到尾仔细读了一遍，羞愧自己的知识已经忘掉差不多。又有论文初审在即，一边修改论文，一遍还要搜集招聘信息投简历找工作，感叹欠下的债早晚要还  

读完文章又听过讲解，我感叹两种语言造字的不同，思维更加不同，英语句子之间衔接更加严密，也因此更加清晰没有歧义，阅读起来思维不是很累，喜欢这种表达方式，感谢老师帮我们选定了这篇文章。

除了有很多不认识的单词，文章意思理解起来有困难外，对文章结构的把握还是不好，不能很顺利得将思维导图做出来，缺乏这类总结归纳的能力，心里有些担心和抵触，需要加强锻炼，希望建立信心。