Science is an ongoing search for truth-- a perpetucal struggle to discover how the universe works that goes back to the earliest civilization.
1. perpetual
ADJ不間斷的；不變的；持續(xù)的；長(zhǎng)久的A perpetual feeling, state, or quality is one that never ends or changes/ADJ連續(xù)不斷的；無(wú)盡無(wú)休的；沒(méi)完沒(méi)了的A perpetual act, situation, or state is one that happens again and again and so seems never to end.
eg.He is on a perpetual search for truth. 他始終在尋求真理。
2. driven by...受...驅(qū)使
eg.driven by human curiosity 受人類好奇心的驅(qū)使
3. reasoning,observation and experiment 推理，觀察和實(shí)驗(yàn)——理論提出的必不可少的幾個(gè)過(guò)程
Scientific method requires scientists to make observations, form a theory to explain what is going on, and then carry out an experiment to see wheather the theory works.If it seems to be true, then the results may be sent out for peer review(同行審查), in which people working in the same or similar field are invited to pick holes in the argument, and so falsify the theory, or to repeat the experiment to make sure that the results are correct.
4. it is as though... 就像。。。
5. artillery 炮兵部隊(duì);炮，大炮;炮術(shù);
6. all the more ?adv.愈加; 格外; 更加; 益;
eg.1 I admired her all the more for allowing them to ridicule her and never striking back.她能聽(tīng)任他們嘲笑卻從不還擊，這讓我更加敬佩她。
eg.2 All the more technically advanced countries put a high value on science.所有技術(shù)上較先進(jìn)的國(guó)家都高度重視科學(xué)。
7. four bodily humours 平衡論
sanguine 樂(lè)觀的 ? ?choleric 暴躁的 ? ?melancholy 憂郁的 ? ? phlegmatic 冷淡的，粘液質(zhì)的
8. in some measure 多少，稍稍，在某種程度上（to some degree）
eg. Power is in some measure an act of will.權(quán)利在某中程度上是意志的表現(xiàn)。
9.to this day 直到今天，至今;迄今;迄今為止
10. ground-breaking 開(kāi)拓性的，獨(dú)創(chuàng)的 ?leap-frogging 跨越式的
11. corpse 死尸，尸體
12. exquisite 精致的;細(xì)膩的;優(yōu)美的;劇烈的
13. discredit/overturn/disprove/quash/falsify ?a theory 推翻某理論=make a theory crash down
shake +theory ,end the idea of ...動(dòng)搖、終結(jié)了。。。理論
14. strata 地層
15. at the turn of the 20th century 第二十世紀(jì)之交
16. harbour v. 包含，聚藏
eg. harbour life 孕育生命
17. daunting 令人畏懼的;使人氣餒的;令人怯步的 ?~task 艱巨的任務(wù)
18. in prospect 可以指望，即將出現(xiàn)
19. move from a hope into a reality 從理想變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)實(shí)
20. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.現(xiàn)實(shí)只是一抹幻影,盡管它從不消散。
albeit conj. 雖然，即使
anne講解
1. go back to 追溯至 畫面感強(qiáng)，延續(xù)性
date back to:給物品定年代，有確切的日期
commenced：只講開(kāi)頭，不知道是不是延續(xù)到今天
go back to:畫面感強(qiáng)，從過(guò)去延續(xù)到現(xiàn)在 ?We go way back.我們認(rèn)識(shí)很久了
2.wirte widely on: widely用的傳神， 寫的面很廣
3.A has twice the weight of another. A的質(zhì)量是另一個(gè)的兩倍
=A is twice as heavy as another thing.
4. pick holes in the argument 找論述中的錯(cuò)誤
5. in orbit 無(wú)冠詞，在軌道中
in shape 身材不走樣
6. bounce back off the paper-thin foil 從。。。彈回來(lái)
7. one experiment that fails may bring an entire theory crashing down 形象，哪怕只有一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果不對(duì)也會(huì)使整個(gè)理論破滅
8. learn 學(xué)會(huì)
learn of 聽(tīng)說(shuō)
9. form the basis/ lay the fundation 奠定了基礎(chǔ)
The biggest impression this article left me is how charming plain English can be. The words used may be as simple as what we have learnt in middle or even primary school, yet this doesn't make the passage any less vivid. In contrast, simple though the word may be, it usually turns out to be more powerful(go back to,write widely on,pick holes in etc.)
Westerners tend to have strong sense of logic as we can see from the conjections and the structure of the passage.Although I am a student of engineering, I am weak in logic,making it hard for me to clarify the structure of the passage sometimes. Mind mapping is a good way I learnt from Annie to find out the inner logic of the passage.
