21世纪大学英语教材.ppt

take (sth.) for granted — be so familiar with (sth.) that one no longer appreciates its full value; treat (sth.) as unimportant e.g. ? He just takes it for granted that the house is tidy. ? Most young people take the washing machine for granted because they’ve never lived without it. Translation 不要把一切都看成是想当然。 Key Don’t take everything for granted. mind over matter — (sometimes humor) control of events or material objects by the power of the mind e.g. ? My grandfather firmly believed that he had cured his own cancer through mind over matter. ? Keeping to a strict diet is a question of mind over matter. e.g. ? That guy we met the other day turned out to be Andy’s second cousin. ? His statement turned out to be false. turn out to be — happen to be in the end Text-related information Black Hole Black hole is a cosmic body of extremely intense gravity from which nothing, not even light, can escape. A black hole can be formed by the death of a massive star. When such a star has exhausted its internal thermonuclear fuels at the end of its life, it becomes unstable and gravitationally collapses inward upon itself. The existence of another kind of nonstellar black hole has been proposed by the British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. According to Hawking’s theory, numerous tiny black holes might have been created during the big bang, a state of extremely high temperatures and density in which the universe is thought to have originated roughly 10 billion years ago. Text-related information Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist, considered one of the greatest scientists in history, made important contributions to many fields of science. His discoveries and theories laid the foundation for much of the progress in science since his time. Newton was one of the inventors of the branch of mathematics called calculus. He also solved the mysteries of light and optics, formulated the three laws of motion, an