09级食品专业英语用专教材（大学期末复习资料）.doc

Food?Speciality?English Hebei Normal University of Science Technology INTRODUCTION With the development of science and technology, scientists strive to exchange their ideas, discoveries and inventions, collect information and data, interpret concepts and theories, comment on the latest scientific advances and write reports based on experimental procedures, etc. The need increases day by day for scientists to have a swift, economical, efficient, impersonal and sometimes international means of communication. English is now established as the main international language of science and technology, and a growing number of scientists and technicians all over the world are obliged to read an increasing proportion of articles and textbooks written in scientific English. As college student, English is an important tool to promote their educational specialty and to perform efficiently their roles as scientists, technologists and technicians, etc. in future. Although they have studied general English for several years, general English can hardly meet such need as those . It is necessary for them to study special English , Which is the English for Science and Technology (EST). EST is a branch of English language study. Since scientists and technicians try to be impersonal in narrating the natural phenomena and facts, their processes, properties and characteristics, English for Science and Technology must be evidently precise, clear and restricted and includes many mathematical equations, formulae, diagrams, tables, etc. Scientists also prefer some typical sentence patterns and a large number of technical and semitechnical terms which make English for Science and Technology different to a very wide extent from ordinary English. Food science and technology is a relatively new field. Only recently has it begun to achieve a degree of technical maturity in its development, but it is rapidly being recognized, nationally and internationally, as a viable, important, and nece