时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:语言的力量


英语课
[00:02.13]My Friend, Albert Einstein
[00:04.96]He was one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known,
[00:09.99]yet if I had to convey the essence of Albert Einstein in a single word,
[00:14.25]I would choose simplicity 1. Perhaps an anecdote 2 will help.
[00:18.74]Once, caught in a downpour, he took off his hat and held it under his coat.
[00:23.24]Asked why, he explained, with admirable logic 3,
[00:26.30]that the rain would damage the hat,
[00:28.27]but his hair would be none the worse for its wetting.
[00:31.00]This knack 4 for going instinctively 5 to the heart of a matter
[00:34.18]was the secret of his major scientific discoveries
[00:37.13]—this and his extraordinary feeling for beauty.
[00:40.18]There was something elusively 6 whimsical about Einstein.
[00:43.47]It is illustrated 7 by my favorite anecdote about him.
[00:46.75]In his first year in Princeton,
[00:48.72]on Christmas Eve, so the story goes, some children sang carols outside his house.
[00:53.86]Having finished,
[00:55.16]they knocked on his door and explained they were collecting money to buy Christmas presents.
[00:59.33]Einstein listened, then said, “Wait a moment.”
[01:02.94]He put on his scarf and overcoat, and took his violin from its case.
[01:07.42]Then, joining the children as they went from door to door,
[01:10.80]he accompanied their singing of “Silent Night” on his violin.
[01:14.21]How shall I sum up what it meant to have known Einstein and his works?
[01:18.25]Like the Nobel Prize winner who pointed 8 helplessly at his watch,
[01:22.07]I can find no adequate words.
[01:24.38]It was akin 9 to the revelation of great art that lets one see what was formerly 10 hidden.
[01:30.26]And when, for example, I walk on the sand of a lonely beach,
[01:34.22]I am reminded of his ceaseless search for cosmic simplicity
[01:37.82]—and the scene takes on a deeper, sadder beauty.

n.简单,简易;朴素;直率,单纯
  • She dressed with elegant simplicity.她穿着朴素高雅。
  • The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.简明扼要是这个计划的一大特点。
n.轶事,趣闻,短故事
  • He departed from the text to tell an anecdote.他偏离课文讲起了一则轶事。
  • It had never been more than a family anecdote.那不过是个家庭趣谈罢了。
n.逻辑(学);逻辑性
  • What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑?
  • I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。
n.诀窍,做事情的灵巧的,便利的方法
  • He has a knack of teaching arithmetic.他教算术有诀窍。
  • Making omelettes isn't difficult,but there's a knack to it.做煎蛋饼并不难,但有窍门。
adv.本能地
  • As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled. 他向她靠近,她本能地往后缩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He knew instinctively where he would find her. 他本能地知道在哪儿能找到她。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.巧妙逃避地,易忘记地
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
adj.同族的,类似的
  • She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
  • Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。
adv.从前,以前
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
学英语单词
.lyr
abhesive
account payable register
accounts payable-related parties
annual load factor
anticipated import
Asian-dollar bond
at high noon
back rope
ball shape
bandsaw machine
Base-pushout
Bontrug
borkosky
brachygnathism
Burgers equation
C size
cayenne peppered bancurd
cents-off promotion
chamfer planes
charmant
concrete design
control switch-board
danshenxinkun
decompression stage
deferred printing mode
deflection plate
description of subroutine
diagonal beam
diyu huaijiao pills
double possessive
en flute
flood-water forest
frequency modulation tube
friction-head
frozen plants
gloeosporium blumeae
gold-finder
Green, Henrietta Howland Robinson
grouts
hard rock concrete
hatchettind
heath-hen
hepatico-colic
heteropoda pingtungensis
HyLusupian
instrumental variable technique
internal reticularapparatus
jacket closure
LE cell
linear systematic statistic
lithospermums
locker carrier
longitudinal bend test
louderbackite
maintenance and service (MS)
map printing
metachrome mordant
microcomputer reset command
Montauban
mortar mix ratio
multiregion problem
nettletons
neutron activation kit
non-essential bus
nonphysicists
nonthermal neutron
occupational tax
perbasic
pneumoresection
power station planning
prolongest
pseudopupae
rear protection
recharge area
right to the use of a site
ritsch
Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
routing number
Rumigny
run around with sb
sanzas
sea-lions
shadowings
side dive
signorise
Silver-Edingtonite
Sir William Walton
solicitorss-general
solovox
somatolactin
subsidiary foodstuffs
szer
to make it worse
Trade L.
Tweed, River
unsupported area
vacuum flash pasteurizer
variomycin
vogues
waco
Zanthoxylum echinocarpum