内容正文:
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems om a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
---- Alber Einstein & Leopold Infeld
JOHN SNOW DEFEATS “ KING CHOLERA”
人教2020 选择性必修二
Language points
1.
What was the most feared disease on the Oregon Trail?
The most feared disease on the Oregon Trail (俄勒冈小径)was cholera, Typhoid fever (伤寒症)and dysentery(痢疾) were also feared diseases, but cholera was the biggest killer.
Cholera used to be one of the most feared diseases in the world.
fear : n/vt (c/u) 害怕,担忧 -- adj. 担忧的,吓人的,极糟的___________ --adj. 不怕的,无畏的________________
with fear 害怕地 fear of sb/sth 害怕... fear for sb/sth 担忧
for fear of.../ for fear that... 唯恐, 以免...
fear sb/ sth 害怕/ 担忧
fear to do/ doing 不敢做某事
fear for sb/ sth 担忧
fearful
fearless
2. die from: 死于......(某种外部原因)
an earthquake a traffic accident a lightning drinking lack of food
die of: 死于....