[Day 700 2016-08-26]Lesson 42-2 Recording an earthquake

But instruments far more delicate than that were needed if any really serious advance was to be made. The ideal to be aimed at was to devise an instrument that could record with a pen on paper, the movements of the ground or of the table as the quake passed by. While I write my pen moves, but the paper keeps still. With practice, no doubt, I could in time learn to write by holding the pen still while the paper moved. That sounds a silly suggestion, but that was precisely the idea adopted in some of the early instruments (seismometers) for recording earthquake waves. But when table, penholder and paper are all moving, how is it possible to write legibly? The key to a solution of that problem lay in an everyday observation.

生詞：
1.legible(adj):clear to read
The transcript is legible

2.seismometers(n.)地震儀

問題回答

a.課文涉及哪些訊息？地震、地震的紀錄、地震記錄的原理

b.表達啥意思？

像是：record the movements of ground as the quake passed by

c.我可以應用在啥場景？

有關地震的紀錄原理，可以從簡單的動作開始連結

d.哪些詞讓我印象深刻？

seismometer:地震儀
how to write legibly

e.我可以積累啥半成品？

The key to a solution of that problem lay in an everyday observation.
問題的解決關鍵在於每天的觀察中