内容正文:
附:《阅读·久久为功》
一、背主题名句,写大气文章
1.(教材名句)Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
努力不是为了功成名就,而是为了成为有价值的人。 ——阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
2.Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.—Winston Churchill
成功就是不断失败,而不丧失热情。 ——温斯顿·丘吉尔
3.Do not, for one failure, give up the purpose that you determine to reach.—William Shakespeare
不要只因一次挫败,就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。——威廉·莎士比亚
4.Great men have passed over desert, to the glorious peak.—Balzac
伟大的人物都走过了荒沙大漠,才登上光荣的高峰。——巴尔扎克
二、课文不厌百遍读,书中自有“黄金屋”
课文1 TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
6 October 2015 (屠呦呦荣获诺贝尔奖 2015年10月6日)
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (cowinner), .Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health for millions of people.Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600,000 die from it.Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and in Africa alone.
[课文对译]
本年度的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖已授予屠呦呦(得主之一),她的研究使青蒿素这种至关重要的新型抗疟疾药物得以发现。青蒿素挽救了成千上万人的生命,改善了很多人的健康状况。全世界每年有2亿多人感染疟疾,其中约60万人死于该种疾病。青蒿素成了抗疟疾药物的关键成分,据估计每年仅在非洲就挽救了10万人的性命。
[难句破解]
句① whose引导非限制性定语从句,修饰先行词Tu Youyou; a crucial ...malaria是同位语,用来解释说明artemisinin。
句② “be+过去分词+不定式”结构。
Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955.After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing.a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, , to study malaria patients.In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease.Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants for their medical properties.From their research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria.
[课文对译]
屠呦呦,这位尽职尽责、锲而不舍的科学家1930年12月30日出生于中国宁波,1955年毕业于北京大学医学部(原北京医学院)。毕业后,她就职于北京的中国中医研究院。1967年,中国政府成立了一支科学家团队,旨在发现新型抗疟疾疗法,屠呦呦入选首批研究人员。起初,屠呦呦奔赴疟疾更为常见的海南研究疟疾患者。1969年,她在北京成了该项目的负责人,并决定从中医药古方中寻找应对疟疾的传统植物疗法。她的团队研读了2 000多篇(个)中医药古籍(古方),评估了28万种植物的药学属性。通过研究,他们发现并测试了380种不同的有望战胜疟疾的古代中医疗法。
[难句破解]
句③ 这是一个由and 连接的并列句。在第一个分句中,介词短语with the objective of ...malaria作目的状语;第二个分句中,chosen是过去分词作后置定语,修饰the first researchers。
句④ where引导非限制性定语从句,修饰先行词Hainan。
One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever.Tu's team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves but found no effect.They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either.Their project got stuck.However, Tu Youyou would not acknowledge defeat.She analysed the medical texts again, and by chance, she found one sentence the wormwood.She concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties.
Using a lower temperature to draw out the extract, she found a substance that worked.After failing more than 190 times, the team finally succeeded in 1971.Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted on testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe.Later, the medicine was tested on malaria patients, .This medicine, which was called artemisinin, soon became a standard treatment for malaria.
[课文对译]
一本四世纪的医学文献建议采用青蒿提取物治疗发烧。屠呦呦的团队测试了一组干青蒿叶,但是发现无效。之后,他们尝试水煎新鲜青蒿叶,用熬出的液体治疗疟疾,但是依旧无效。他们的项目陷入了僵局。然而,屠呦呦并不认输。她再次分析医学文献,碰巧发现其中有一句话建议采用一种不同的方法处理青蒿。她得出结论,认为水煎青蒿显然破坏了它的药学属性。
通过使用更低的温度萃取提取物后,她发现了一种有效物质。经历了190多次的失败之后,团队终于在1971年获得了成功。屠呦呦与团队成员甚至坚持以身试药,以确保药物的安全性。随后,该药物试用于疟疾患者,其中大多数人康复了。这种被称为青蒿素的药物很快就成为治疗疟疾的标准疗法。
[难句破解]
句⑤ 现在分词短语作后置定语,修饰one sentence;to treat the wormwood是不定式短语作后置定语,修饰a different way。
句⑥ “代词+介词+关系代词”引导的非限制性定语从句,修饰先行词malaria patients。
According to Tu Youyou, the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort.been awarded the Nobel Prize, she said, “The honour is not just mine.There is a team behind me, and all the people of my country.This success proves the great value of traditional Chinese medicine.It is indeed an honour for China's scientific research
[课文对译]
据屠呦呦所说,青蒿素的发现是团队共同努力的结果。获悉自己被授予诺贝尔奖时,她说:“这份荣誉不仅仅属于我。我的身后是一个团队以及全国人民。这项成功印证了传统中医药的巨大价值。中国的科学研究和中医药得以在全世界传播确实是一个荣誉。”
[难句破解]
句⑦ “Upon+v.ing形式”构成的介宾结构作时间状语。
句⑧ It's an honour (for sb.) to do ...意为“(某人)做……是一种荣幸”,是演讲中常用的句型。
课文2 THE MAN WHO CHANGED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE
(改变我们对宇宙认知的人)
Albert Einstein, , is often considered one of the smartest men who ever lived.He made numerous contributions to the world, being the general theory of relativity and the famous formula E=mc2. Einstein was not only a genius; he was a courageous and kind figure loved by many people.
[课文对译]
阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦——这位或许是现代物理学领域最伟大的科学家——被公认是有史以来智商最高的人之一。他为世界作出了无数的贡献,最为出名的当数广义相对论和著名的方程式E=mc2。 爱因斯坦不仅是一位天才,而且是一位广受爱戴的勇敢、善良的人。
[难句破解]
句① who引导的非限制性定语从句。
句② “逻辑主语+现在分词”式的独立主格结构。
This gentle genius was born in Germany on 14 March 1879.When he was 16, he tried to enter university in Switzerland, but failed due to his low scores in the general part of the entrance exam, despite obtaining exceptional scores in maths and physics. managed to pass the exam, entering university in 1896 and graduating in 1900.
[课文对译]
1879年3月14日,这位性情温和的天才出生于德国。16岁时,他报考瑞士的大学,尽管入学考试中的数学和物理成绩十分优异,但是因为通识部分的成绩低而未被录取。再学习了一年后,他终于通过了考试,于1896年进入大学,1900年毕业。
[难句破解]
句③ “介词+动名词”结构作时间状语,现在分词短语作伴随状语。
After two years of looking for work as a teacher, Einstein took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office. earning a doctorate in physics in 1905. That same year, in science, he published four extraordinary physics papers.Following this, he gradually became famous throughout the world as the new Isaac Newton.After four years, he was able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research fulltime at a university.In 1922, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
[课文对译]
寻找教师的工作岗位两年无果后,他在瑞士专利局觅得一份职员的工作。工作期间,出于强烈的求知欲,他仍继续学习,于1905年获得物理学博士学位。同年——这一年后来被称为科学上的奇迹年——他发表了四篇非同寻常的物理学论文。此后,他渐渐闻名于世,被誉为第二个艾萨克·牛顿。四年后,他辞去了专利局的工作,进入一所大学做全职研究。1922年,他因解释光电效应而荣获1921年度的诺贝尔物理学奖。
[难句破解]
句④ “while+现在分词”式的状语从句的省略结构;earning a ...1905为现在分词短语作结果状语。
句⑤ which引导的非限制性定语从句,修饰先行词That same year。
Circumstances changed in 1933, .Einstein, who was Jewish, found the doors of academic institutions closed to him.As a consequence, he had to flee Germany.After spending time in Europe, he finally took up a position as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA.Following that, he continued to make great achievements in physics and mathematics.
[课文对译]
1933年,希特勒在德国上台,形势发生了变化。身为犹太人的爱因斯坦发现学术机构纷纷对他关上大门。因此,他不得不逃离德国。在欧洲度过一段时间后,他终于在美国普林斯顿高等研究院谋得研究员一职。此后,他继续在物理学和数学领域获得重大成就。
[难句破解] 句⑥ when引导的定语从句,修饰先行词1933。
To the public, he was seen as a slightly oddlooking but kind and funny man.He had a thick moustache and long white hair, which sometimes stood on end as though he had just received an electric shock.Although he was a genius, he sometimes forgot things, like his friends' birthdays. But despite his peculiarities, he was loved by his friends and neighbours. helped a little girl who knocked on his door and asked for help with her homework.In fact, Einstein often encountered people on the street who would stop him and ask him to help explain things.After many such occasions, he finally started saying, “Pardon me! Sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein!”
[课文对译]
在大众眼中,爱因斯坦是一个外表有点古怪但生性善良、风趣幽默的人。他胡须浓密,头发又长又白,有时会像刚遭了电击似的竖起来。虽然他是个天才,但他有时也会忘记一些事情,如朋友的生日。尽管怪癖不少,他仍然颇受朋友和邻居的喜爱。甚至有一件轶事,说的是他如何为一名上门求助的小女孩讲解家庭作业。事实上,爱因斯坦经常遇到有人当街拦住他,请他解释各种事物。这样的情形多次发生之后,他最后只好开始说:“请原谅!抱歉!我老是被误认为是爱因斯坦教授!”
[难句破解]
句⑦ there be句式,其中包含一个嵌套从句:how引导的从句作介词about的宾语,该宾语从句中又包含一个who引导的定语从句,修饰先行词a little girl。
On 18 April 1955,, and the whole world mourned the great loss of a brilliant scientist.
[课文对译]
1955年4月18日,噩耗传来,爱因斯坦与世长辞,全世界都哀悼一代科学巨星的陨落。
[难句破解]
句⑧ “it is+过去分词(reported)+that”结构的固定句型,意为“据报道……”。
三、词汇记忆无诀窍,适时“回首”记得牢
1.physiology n. 生理学;生理机能
拓展
2.artemisinin n. [药]青蒿素
3.crucial adj. 至关重要的;关键性的
搭配|be crucial to/for 对……至关重要
拓展|crucially adv. 重要地;关键性地
4.malaria n. 疟疾
5.vital adj. 必不可少的;极其重要的;充满生机的
搭配|be vital to对……至关重要
6.committed adj. 尽心尽力的;坚定的;坚信的
commit vt. 承诺;保证
vi. 忠于;全心全意投入(工作、活动等)
commit oneself to (sth./doing sth./do sth.) 承诺;保证
拓展|commitment n. 承诺;奉献
7.academy n. 研究院;学会;专科院校
academic adj. 学业的;学术的
拓展|academically adv. 学术上
8.objective n. 目标;目的
adj. 客观的
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反义|subjective adj. 主观的
9.botanical adj. 植物学的
拓展|botany n. 植物学
10.evaluate vt. 评价;评估
同义|assess v. 评价;估价
拓展|evaluation n. 评价;评估
11.property n. 性质;特征;财产
同义|quality n. 性质;特性
12.distinct adj. 清晰的;清楚的;有区别的
搭配|be distinct from 与……不同
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反义|indistinct adj. 模糊不清的
13.extract n. 提取物;摘录
vt. 提取;提炼;摘录;(用力)拔出
14.wormwood n. 蒿;洋艾
15.boil vt.&vi. (使)沸腾;煮开;烧开
n. 沸腾;沸点
搭配|boil over 溢出;爆发
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16.liquid n. 液体
adj. 液体的; 液态的
联想
17.obtain vt. (尤指经努力)获得;赢得
vi. (规章、习俗等)存在;流行
同义|get/gain/win/attain
18.acknowledge vt. 承认(属实、权威等);(公开)感谢
搭配
同义|admit/recognize; thank/gratitude/appreciate
拓展|acknowledgement n. 承认;确认;感谢
19.defeat n. 失败;挫败
vt. 击败;战胜
搭配|suffer a narrow defeat 惜败
同义|failure; beat
20.analyse [NAmE ze] vt. 分析
拓展|analysis n. 分析(analyses复数)
21.apparently adv. 显而易见;看来;显然
同义|obviously/clearly
拓展|apparent adj. 显然的;显而易见的
22.substance n. 物质;物品;事实根据
同义|matter/goods
23.insist vi.& vt. 坚持;坚决要求
搭配
同义|stick to/persist
24.scientific adj. 科学(上)的;关于科学的
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25.mostly adv. 主要地;一般地
同义|mainly adv. 主要地
拓展|most adj. 最多的;主要的
26.wear and tear (正常使用造成的)磨损;损耗
27.conclusion n. 结论;推论
搭配
拓展|conclude v. 总结
28.penicillin n. 青霉素;盘尼西林
29.flee vi.& vt.(fled, fled) 迅速离开;逃跑
同义|escape v. 逃跑
30.circumstance n.[usually pl.] 条件;环境;状况
搭配
31.novelist n. 小说家
拓展|novel n. (长篇)小说
32.flow n. 流;流动;流畅;供应
vi. 流;流动
搭配
33.chart n. 图表
vt. 记录;制订计划
flow chart 流程图
34.found vt. 创建;建立;把……建立在
搭配|be founded on/upon 建立在……基础上
同义|build/set up/base
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35.infer vt. 推断;推定
搭配|infer ...from ... 从……中推断出
拓展|inference n. 推断;结论
36.politician n. 从政者;政治家;政客
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37.numerous adj. 众多的;许多的
同义|many/mass
38.theory n. 理论;学说
搭配|in theory 理论上
联想|in practice 实践上
39.relativity n. 相对论:相对性
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40.formula n. 公式;方程式;配方
41.genius n.[pl.geniuses] 天才;天资;天赋
同义|talent/gift
42.gentle adj. 温柔的;文静的
同义|soft/mild/quiet
拓展|gently adv. 温柔地;文静地
43.patent n. 专利;专利证书;获得专利
adj.有专利的; 受专利保护的
44.passion n. 酷爱;激情
搭配
45.doctorate n. 博士学位
拓展|doctor n. 医生;博士
联想|master n. 硕士学位;硕士
46.extraordinary adj. 不一般的;非凡的;意想不到的
同义|unusual/remarkable
47.gradually adv. 逐渐地;逐步地
拓展|gradual adj. 逐渐的;慢慢的
48.photoelectric adj. 光电的
49.come to power (开始)掌权;上台
50.institution n. 社会公共机构;制度;习俗
institute n. (教育、专业等)机构;机构建筑
51.consequence n. 结果;后果
搭配
52.take up a position 担任;任职
53.moustache [especially US mustache] n. 上唇的胡子;髭
联想|beard n. (下巴上的)胡须
54.peculiarity n. 个性;特点;怪异的性质
同义|personality/individual
55.encounter vt. 偶然碰到;遇到
n. 邂逅;遭遇
同义|run across/meet with
56.professor n. 教授
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57.mourn vt.&vi. 哀悼;忧伤
58.remarkable adj. 非凡的;显著的
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59.device n. 方法;技巧;装置;仪器
同义|way/means/method
60.sum vi. 总结;概括
n. 金额;款项;总数;总和
搭配
61.draft n. 草稿;草案
vt. 起草;草拟
四、范文佳作多背诵,写作增分最实用
(一)单元写作任务范文背诵
写作话题1 身边值得尊敬的人
假定你是李华,你校正在组织英语作文比赛。请以身边值得尊敬的人为题,写一篇短文参赛,内容包括:
1.人物简介; 2.受尊敬的原因。
注意:1.写作词数应为80左右; 2.请按如下格式作答。
The person I respect
There are many respectable people around us.______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
[推荐范文]
The person I respect
There are many respectable people around us.As for me, my mother is the person I respect most.
She is an ordinary teacher who shows great affection for her students.She is respected by her students.In her daily life, not only does she devote herself to work but she also spares some time to accompany me.Whenever I come across problems in my study and life, my mother will listen to me patiently and encourage me to overcome them bravely.My mother is the person who deserves my heartfelt respect and deep love.
写作话题2 介绍中国科学家
假定你是李华,你的英国朋友Henry发来邮件,提到他为中国所取得的科技成就感到无比钦佩,想了解一些中国科学家的事迹。请你用英语给他写一封邮件,为他介绍一位你最喜欢的中国科学家,内容包括:
1.生平简介; 2.主要成就。
注意:1.写作词数应为80左右; 2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
[推荐范文]
Dear Henry,
I'd like to introduce my favorite scientist to you.
Regarded as the “father of China's nuclear bomb”, Deng Jiaxian is the scientist I admire most.Born in 1924 in Anhui Province, he got his doctor's degree from Purdue University in America in 1950.After that, he returned to China and devoted all his life to the development of China's nuclear and hydrogen bombs.After years of hard work, he died in Beijing in 1986.
Deng Jiaxian made great contributions to the development of our country and will always be remembered as an outstanding scientist.
Yours,
Li Hua
(二)单元主题优美语段背诵
语段1 人物的主要成就
Taking Zheng He as an example, Zheng He was a navigator and diplomatist in the Ming Dynasty, whose most famous performance, Zheng He's Voyages, was the longest sailing with the largest scale and the most ships and crew in ancient China.It made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty's economy and overseas trade.Besides, it also promoted the cultural exchange between east and west.
以郑和为例,郑和是明代的航海家和外交家,其最著名的表现是郑和下西洋,是中国古代航行时间最长、规模最大、船只和船员最多的航行。它为明朝的经济和海外贸易做出了巨大贡献。此外,它还促进了东西方的文化交流。
语段2 人物外貌
A young lady was coming toward him.Her figure was long and slim; her blonde hair lay back from her ears; her eyes were blue as flowers; her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit/clothes she was like spring time coming alive.He went toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose.As he moved, a middleaged woman whispered, “Going my way, Sir?”
一位年轻女士向他走来。她身材修长;她的金发披在耳后;她的眼睛蓝得像花;她的嘴唇和下巴有一种温柔的紧实。穿着淡绿色的衣服,她就像春天一样生机勃勃。他走向她,完全没有注意到她没有佩戴玫瑰。他走的时候,一位中年妇女低声问:“跟我走同一条路吗,先生?”
五、主题集群阅读,拓展主题认知
时尚悦读(一) 科学的价值
When I was younger, I thought science would make good things for everybody.It was obviously useful; it was good.But then during the war I worked on the atomic bomb.This result of science was obviously very serious — it represented the destruction of people and it put our future at risk.I had to ask myself, “Is there some evil involved in science?”
loved — when I saw what terrible things it could do?It was a question I had to answer.I thought long and hard about this question, and I will try to answer it in this talk.
:scientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things. science; it is also to the credit of the moral choice which led us to good work.Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to apply it.Such power has obvious value — even though the power may be negated by what one does with it.
Another value of science is the intellectual enjoyment it can provide us with.When we look at any question deeply enough, we feel the excitement and mystery coming to us again and again.With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, inspiring one to look deeper still.Never concerned that the answer may let us down, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries.Thanks to the scientific effort, we have been led to imagine all sorts of things more fantastic than poets and dreamers of the past ever could.
I would now like to turn to a third value that science has.The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance.When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant.When he has an idea as to what the result is, he is uncertain.
Now, we scientists take it for granted that it is perfectly possible to live and not know.But our freedom to doubt was born out of a deep and strong struggle against authority in the early days of science.In order to progress, we must not forget the importance of this struggle; we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.Permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure.
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought, to declare the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but to be welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.
(Adapted from a public lecture by Richard Feynman, an American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965)
[难句破解]
句① 句子主句是what is the value of the science ...;句中when引导时间状语从句,从句含有一个what引导的宾语从句;句中I had long devoted myself to为省略了关系代词that/which的定语从句,修饰先行词science;I had loved为省略了关系代词that/which的定语从句,修饰先行词thing。
句② 本句为主从复合句。in which 引导定语从句,修饰先行词way;is of value相当于is valuable。
句③ 句中if引导条件状语从句;主句中包含了not only ...(but) also ...结构;which引导定语从句,修饰先行词choice。
句④ 句中when引导时间状语从句;what引导宾语从句,作介词of的宾语。
[助读译文]
在我还很年轻的时候,我以为科学会给每个人都带来好处。科学显然是有用的,有好的一面。但随后在战争期间,我从事了原子弹的研究。这个科学的成果明显有很大的危险性——它意味着人的毁灭,并使我们的未来岌岌可危。我不得不问自己:“科学里是不是有罪恶?”
换言之,在我发现科学可能造成的恶果之后,我一直投身其中的科学,我曾经的挚爱,价值何在?这是一个我不得不回答的问题。关于这个问题,我苦思冥想了很久,我将试着在这次演讲中给出解答。
科学体现价值的第一种方式对每个人而言都耳熟能详:科学知识让我们能够做各种各样的事,造不同种类的东西。当然,如果我们做了善事,不仅归功于科学,还归功于引导我们行善的道德选择。科学知识是一种让我们可以行善也可以作恶的力量——但是该如何运用,它并未自带说明书。这样的力量其价值显而易见,尽管,这个力量会被某人用它所做的事否定。
科学的另一种价值在于它能够给予我们以智力的享受。当我们足够深入地探究某个问题时,我们会感到兴奋和神秘不断地扑面而来。随新知而来的是更深刻、更精妙的奥秘,激励我们更深入地去探究。我们从不担心答案可能会令人失望,总是快乐而自信地开始每一次新探索,发现一些意想不到、稀奇古怪的东西,随之而来的是更加奇妙的问题与奥秘。有赖于在科学上付出的努力,我们在其引领下构想出形形色色的东西,远比过去任何一位诗人和梦想家的想象更加美妙。
现在,我要说到科学的第三种价值。科学家经常会经历无知、疑惑和不确定,而这种经历是十分重要的。当科学家不知道某个问题的答案时,他是无知的。当他对于结果是什么有主意时,他是不确定的。当他非常确信结果将会怎样时,他仍旧有所怀疑。
现在,我们科学家理所当然地认为,人类生而有所不知是完全有可能的。但是我们怀疑的自由,脱胎于早年间科学为对抗权威展开的深刻而强硬的斗争。为了进步,我们切不可忘记这场斗争的重要性;我们必须认识到自己的无知,并且为怀疑留出一席之地。要允许我们提问——怀疑——不确定。
作为科学家,我们明白巨大进步源于思想自由,因此,我们有责任声明这一自由的价值;有责任教育人们不必害怕疑惑,而要欢迎疑惑、讨论疑惑;有责任强烈要求这一自由,这就是我们对后世的义务。
(改编自1965年诺贝尔物理学奖得主、美国科学家理查德·费曼的公开演讲)
时尚悦读(二) 通往成功之路
Near the small town of Grottoes, Virginia, a narrow dirt road goes from the house of Stephen Curry's grandfather to the woods nearby.A far cry from the bright lights and shiny courts of the National Basketball Association (NBA), it was along this road that Stephen's grandfather built a simple basket by attaching a piece of plastic to a telephone pole.
Like his father, basketball star Dell Curry, Stephen spent many childhood hours playing on this muddy basketball court.He probably didn't realise it at the time, but it was creative and flexible as a player.You see, with every shot, the weak plastic backboard gave way.The bumps and rocks caused the ball to bounce in all directions.Knowing where the ball would go wasn't easy.He had to adjust his own playing style as a result.Shooting with great accuracy was another thing he learnt.Only shots perfectly aimed at its centre went into the heavy, thick basket.In this way, practising day in and day out helped Stephen sharpen his skills.
Despite his father's successful career, Stephen was thought by many people, including his high school teammates and coaches, to be too short, too thin and too weak to follow in his father's footsteps. But Stephen carried on.Playing basketball was his dream.He would not give up.He finally ended up playing college ball at a small, little-known school, Davidson College, not too far from where he lived.His creativity and perseverance made him Davidson's star player.
Selected for the NBA in 2009, Stephen joined the Golden State Warriors.He performed beyond everyone's expectations with his accurate shooting and continuous efforts.In 2015, Stephen won his first NBA championship, and he led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975.
After receiving the Most Valuable Player award for two years in a row, Stephen explained his philosophy,“I never really set out to change the game ... was just be myself ...I know it inspires a lot of the next generation, a lot of people who love the game of basketball to value the skill of it, value the fact .You've got to be able to put in the time and the work.That's how I got here.That's how I continue to get better every single day.”Inspiring others to believe in themselves, Stephen Curry is living proof think of you does not have to influence what you become.Through self-belief, hard work, perseverance and some help from an old hoop, he has shown that anything is possible.
[难句破解]
句① where引导表语从句。
句② that引导定语从句,修饰先行词bumps and rocks。
句③ what引导主语从句,在主语从句中作宾语。
句④ that引导同位语从句,解释说明 fact。
句⑤ that引导同位语从句,从句中第一个what引导主语从句,第二个what引导宾语从句。
[助读译文]
在弗吉尼亚州的格罗托斯小镇附近,一条狭窄的土路从斯蒂芬·库里的祖父家延伸至附近的树林。这与美国男子职业篮球联赛(NBA)赛场上明亮的灯光和闪亮的球场相去甚远。正是在这条路上,斯蒂芬的祖父把一块塑料贴到电线杆上,建了一个简易篮筐。
与父亲戴尔·库里这位篮球明星一样,斯蒂芬的许多童年时光都是在这个土篮球场上度过的。尽管当时他可能并没有意识到,但就是在这里,他学会了如何成为一名有创造力、能够灵活变通的篮球运动员。你瞧,每次投篮,不牢固的塑料篮板都摇摇欲坠。篮筐下的小路凹凸不平,布满了石块,篮球也因此弹向四面八方。能够判断出球反弹的方向并不容易,因此他不得不调整自己的打球方式。他在这里学到的另一项技能是精准的投篮技术。只有完美地瞄准中心,篮球才能进入厚重的篮筐。如此日复一日地练习,斯蒂芬的篮球技术变得炉火纯青。
尽管父亲的职业生涯很成功,但是斯蒂芬的高中队友和教练等很多人都认为他太矮太瘦弱,无法延续他父亲的荣耀。但斯蒂芬继续坚持打球。打篮球是他的梦想,他绝不会放弃。终于,斯蒂芬在规模不大且鲜为人知的戴维森学院成为一名大学篮球赛的球员,这所学院离他家不算远。斯蒂芬凭借自己的创造性和毅力成为戴维森学院的明星球员。
2009年,斯蒂芬入选NBA,加入了金州勇士队。凭借精准的投篮和不懈的努力,他的表现令人刮目相看。2015年,斯蒂芬赢得了他的第一个NBA总冠军,这也是他带领勇士队获得的自1975年以来的第一个冠军。
在连续两年获得“最有价值球员”奖后,斯蒂芬阐释了他的人生观:“我从未真正想过改变比赛……我只想做我自己……我知道这激励着很多后辈、很多热爱篮球比赛的人,让他们认识到技术的重要性,认识到你可以通过每天的不断努力而变得更好。你必须肯花时间和精力。这是我走到今天的方法,也是我每一天都能更进一步的原因。”斯蒂芬·库里激励着所有人去相信自己,他也生动地证明了别人对你的看法并不一定会影响你成为什么人。通过自信、勤奋、毅力,以及一只旧篮筐的帮助,他向人们证明了一切皆有可能。
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