研究生学术英语读写教程Unit8.pptxVIP

Chemistry;Outline;;;Words and expressions;unleash vt. to set free to unleash the guard dogs to unleash the dogs of war to release to unleash one’s rage ;sway vi. to sway to the music vt. to sway [somebody] in favour of doing[something] to sway the outcome in [somebody’s] favour n. under the sway of [somebody]/[something] to hold sway (over [somebody]/[something]) ;appall v. horrify The way we kill animals appalls a lot of people. ;1. The mad race for an ultimate military security -- to develop the most advanced and destructive armaments, to construct mighty military edifices, to build huge fleets, to conscript millions into vast armies, to overlay the Continent with a network of railroads to move troops rapidly, to stockpile mammoth amounts of ammunition and guns, to prepare war plans that called for armies of millions to fall upon each other in mass battles -- amounted to a gargantuan powder keg, needing only a single political spark to set off Armageddon. (Para. 2) ;1. 为保障终极军事安全的疯狂竞赛——发展最先进和最具杀伤力的军备，建造强大的军事基地，组建巨型舰队，将数百万人招募到庞大的军队，在欧洲大陆上覆盖铁路网络以迅速转移军队，储备不计其数的枪支弹药，制订战争计划，动员数以百万计的军队在大规模战斗中对抗——这相当于一个巨大的火药桶，只需要一个政治火花就能引爆世界末日的善恶大决战。 ;2. Science finally had been mated indissolubly to war, creating a juggernaut that no one was able to stop. (Para. 2) 科学最终与战争不可分割地结合在一起，产生了无人可挡的强大力量。;3. But when the great cataclysm of World War I finally arrived, events soon proved this belief a tragic chimera. (Para. 3) 但是当第一次世界大战的巨大灾难终于来临时，各种事件很快证明这一想法只是可悲的妄想。 ;4. It was a crisis summarized in the career of one of the century’s greatest scientific minds, a mind that simultaneously could provide the science to improve mankind’s existence and the science to destroy it. (Para. 4) 这是从该世纪一位最伟大的科学家的职业生涯中得出的危机，这位科学家既可以提供科学方法来改善人类的生存，同时又可以用科学来摧毁它。 ;5. Haber had taken a fateful step, for he was now using his scientific genius not for the betterment of mankind — as he once claimed — but for its destruction. (Para. 8) 哈伯迈出了改变人生的一步，因为他没有利用他