时间:2019-03-10 作者:英语课 分类:双语有声阅读


英语课
Discovery
 
发现
The word"discovery" literally 1 means,
"发现"一词,字面上是指,
uncovering something that's hidden from view.
揭开某种实现以外的隐藏的事物。
But what really happens is a change in the viewer.
不过其实是观察者自身发生了变化。
The familiar offers comfort few can resist,
很少人能抗拒熟悉事物带来的舒适,
and fewer still want to disturb.
愿意扰乱这种舒适的人更少。
But as relatively 2 recent inventions such as the telescope and microscope have taught us,
然而,正如这些较为近期的发明望远镜,显微镜揭示给我们的一样,
the unknown has many layers.
未知事物具有多种层次。
Every truth has geological strata 3,
每个事实都有地质层次。
and you can't have an orthodoxy without a heresy 4.
没有异端就无所谓正统。
The moment a newborn opens its eyes, discovery begins.
新生儿睁开双眼的那一刻起,发现也就开始了。
I learned this with a laugh one morning after delivering a calf 5.
我是在一天清晨给一头小牛犊接生的时候突然意识到这一点的,不禁大笑。
When it lifted up its fluffy 6 head and looked at me,
小牛扬起毛茸茸的脑袋看着我,
its eyes held the absolute bewilderment of the newly born.
目光中透出这个新生命对世界的一无所知。
A moment before it had the even black nowhere of the womb,
片刻之前,它还呆在母体里某个黑暗而平静的地方,
and suddenly its world was full of colour,movement and noise.
突然,它的世界变得五光十色,变得活泼而喧闹。
I've never seen anything so shocked to be alive.
我从未见过任何东西在获得生命时是如此的惊异。

adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
n.地层(复数);社会阶层
  • The older strata gradually disintegrate.较老的岩层渐渐风化。
  • They represent all social strata.他们代表各个社会阶层。
n.异端邪说;异教
  • We should denounce a heresy.我们应该公开指责异端邪说。
  • It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.提出这样一个观点可能会被视为异端邪说。
n.小牛,犊,幼仔,小牛皮
  • The cow slinked its calf.那头母牛早产了一头小牛犊。
  • The calf blared for its mother.牛犊哞哞地高声叫喊找妈妈。
adj.有绒毛的,空洞的
  • Newly hatched chicks are like fluffy balls.刚孵出的小鸡像绒毛球。
  • The steamed bread is very fluffy.馒头很暄。
学英语单词
altitude-direction indicator
ampere
anterior pyramidal cataract
axis porcinus
Ayers Rock
bathing-trunks
behind-closed-door
benesh
boneless meat shaping
bow girder
Browns R.
buffeting characteristic
Cardiazem
cargo handling by deck crane
charge coupled device memory
Chinese alligators
citrons
clerofascists
coat of colour
cytomegaly
d-stylopine
demarchies
demoldable
direct current resistance welder secondary rectification
dispossest
dot matrix printer
eight times
embowers
enclosed-scale liquid-in-glass thermometer
error-free audit conclusion
event-driven program
film unsharpness
Foreign market beta
four-frequency group mode
frasnians
generation control
go about one's business
haginoes
have something to show for
hecto-seconds
hibernation mode
Hygrochilus parishii
hystercystopexy
hyteresis(darlington 1935)
Ile
inboard cargo
internally-stored program
intrinsic line wave
isotonic sodium chlorrde solution
laceration of muscle and tendon
Langwathby
lever type feedback
magnet power
manhole cover chain
manual data relay centre
medicated wine with leopard bone
mercurialized
Mikhaylovskoye
mycoproteinase
mythicizers
narcotics agent
neocyprideis heteroplastica
nitrocycline
noise detector
on the same day
oncography
overhang packing
particles of unchanging size
periproctitic abscess
peroxydase catalysis
photoconductive polymer
pitifull
polreis
potassium alums
presubmission
psophometric weighting factor
selfskimming
semi-government
shipborne equipment
single phase condition
soloship
Spanish chestnut
St-Jouin-de-Marnes
submerged marsh
suit of clothes
sun follower
tawite-porphyry
tax relief
tempiettos
through good and evil repute
triangular route
trnsverse electromagnetic (tem) wave
trowie
unnatures
upbearing
upswept
vicom
viral warts
wood avens
Yokoyama Taikan
zoogenic association