Out-classExerciseofUnit9.pptVIP

Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S1/13 Science finds order and meaning in our experience, and sets about this in quite a different way. Order and meaning 事物的法则和意义 Set about this: start to do this (=finding …) 科学从经验中发现事物的法则和意义，而且发现的方法判然不同。 Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S2/13 It sets about it as Newton did in the story which he himself told in his old age, and of which the schoolbooks give only a caricature. caricature: 漫画；滑稽模仿；荒诞的模仿或歪曲 科学发现的方法就如牛顿在晚年的自述中所讲述的方法，而这种方法在教科书里只有夸张的描述。 Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S3/13 In the year 1665, when Newton was twenty-two, the plague broke out in southern England, and the University of Cambridge was closed. The plague broke out in … 在…爆发了瘟疫；在…瘟疫爆发 1665年牛顿22岁的时候，英格兰南部瘟疫爆发，剑桥大学关门了。 Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S4/13 Newton therefore spent the next eighteen months at home, removed from traditional learning, at a time when he was impatient for knowledge and, in his own phrase, I was in the prime of my age for invention. Be impatient for knowledge 渴求知识 于是以后的18个月（或：以后的一年半时间）牛顿就在家里度过。正值渴求知识之时却脱离了传统方式的学习。用他本人的话说，“当时我正处于发明创造的大好年华。” （用分句法翻译） Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S5/13 In this eager, boyish mood, sitting one day in the garden of his widowed mother, he saw an apple fall. In this eager, boyish mood 带着这种孩子气的迫切心情 his widowed mother 寡母 他带着这种孩子气的迫切心情，有一天坐在寡母的园子里，看到一只苹果掉落下来。 Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S6/13 What struck the young Newton at the sight was not the thought that the apple must be drawn to the earth by gravity; that conception was older than Newton. what struck the young Newton at the sight was: 看到苹果掉落时，年轻的牛顿想到的 … 年轻的牛顿看到苹果掉落时，想到的不是苹果一定受到地球引力的作用而落到地面，那种想法早在牛顿之前就有了。 Out-class Exercise of Unit 9 S7/13 What struck him was the conjecture that the same force of gravity, which reaches to the top of the tree, might go on reaching out beyond the earth and its air, endlessly into space. Conjecture: supposition, guess 猜想