13级自动化三班李宏旭P131814125专业英语期中作业摘要.doc

《自动化专业英语》期中作业 翻译内容： 教材 Unit 2 题 目：Why Learn Scientific English 学 院： 电气工程学院 专业班级： 2013级自动化三班 学 号： P131814125 信（50） 顺（20） 雅（5） 排版（25） 总分（100） 评阅教师 姓 名： 李宏旭 Unit 2 Why Learn Scientific English 第二单元 为什么学习科学英语 Text A Major Scientific Discoveries and Inventions A 重大科学发现和发明 Since the industrial revolution in the 18th century,science has progressively developed importang influences on the life of people throughout the world. Technological achievements such as the motorvehicle,refrigerator,television and computer are just some example of use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes which we have now taken for granted. The refrigerator,for example,was based on the scientific concept of evaporative cooling,in which latent heat is released during evaporation as the air carries off water vapor.Instead of water,the refrigerator performs cooling using chemicals. 自从18世纪工业革命以后，科学发展的重要性已经逐步地影响生活在世界上的人们。技术成果如汽车，冰箱，电视机的电脑，这些都是将科学知识运用到实际生活中的例子我们现在都习以为常了，举例来说吧，冰箱是基于蒸发冷却的科学概念，在蒸发过程中，空气带走水蒸气的同时，也把潜热释放出来，冰箱是用化学物质进行冷却，而不是用水。 Perof penicillin, open-heart surgery, radiotherapy and eradication of the disease smallpox There occurs other scientific research which has shaped our modern society ( Table l-l). like those that led to the synthetic materials such as plastics which many of us encounter daily, the various forms of agricultural practices which maximize crop yield, the treatment of wirer fit for human consumption, and the list goes on. 也许在科学研究领域内，更为著名的突破是带来医疗的进步，从而拯救了无数的生命，比如青霉素的发现，心脏移植手术，放射性治疗和癌症的根除，预防天花的再现，这些塑造了我们的现代社会的科学研究（表1-1）像那些导致的合成材料如我们日常生活的塑料，使农作物产量最大化提高了各种形式的农业实践，这种处理适合人们的消费，这样的例子不胜枚举。 -1 Major Scientific Discoveries in the 20th Century and Up to present Years Major scientific discoveries Major inventions 1900s function of white blood cells, buffer solutions, mammalian sexchromosomes XX and YY,Avogadro’s number vacuum cleaner, air conditioning