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What is science？ 什么是科学？ The word ”science” is from a Latin verb meaning “to know”. “科学”这个单词来自于拉丁语中的“知道，了解”含义。因为When we speak of science , we speak of a way of understanding the 这是一种获取知识的方式，所以当我们谈到科学的时候，它是一种通 world describing and explaining natural phenomena, because this is the 过描述和解释自然现象来让我们了解世界的方法。科学家为了实现某way of acquiring knowledge. To achieve this scientist makes initial 一目的，先做初步观察，然后再采取一系列措施的行为被认为是科学observations and then follows a series of steps, known as the scientific 方法，所以结论可以是由观察结果构成的。这个过程使我们可以通过 method (Fig,1-1), so that conclusions can be drawn on the observations 一个系统的方法来学习知识。所有正规的科学研究都要贯彻实施这些 made. This process allows knowledge to be gained in an organized way. 科学方法并且用这种方法写科学研究的论文。任何一个中国人想成为 All proper scientific research is carried out following the scientific 科学家也是很有必要熟悉这个方法的。以欣赏科学方法的态度去认识 method and scientific research articles are written with this method in 学术英语在科学中的价值 mind. It is essential that any Chinese person aspiring to be a scientist is familiar with this method also. An appreciation of the scientific method is valuable to the understanding of scientific academic English. Observation 观察 Question 提出问题 Hypothesis 提出假设 Prediction 作出预测 Test : 实验： experiment and 进行实验和数据采集 data collection The scientific method is essential to scientific English. The 科学方法对于学术语言是很重要的。 first step in the scientific method is to make general observations. You 科学方法的第一步是制作一个综合的观察报告， may then gain some idea about what you have observed, and you may 然后你可能会有一些想法关于你观察的事物，接着你可能会在预测并 have a question from which you could make a prediction on what the 提出一些问题，也许会得到相应的结论。 outcome might be. What you predict, however, may or may not be right. 然而你所预测的，可能正确，也有可能是错误的。 You must first test the different alternatives to your idea (or theory) so 首先关于你提出的观点你必须尝试各种不同的方法去证明它的正确 that your answer is not biased. However an idea or a theory is usually not 性。然而