时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课
Yaël: Hey Don, look what I've got here!
Don: Oh cool, its one of those little origami cranes. I didn't know you were into the whole origami thing.
Y: Well the little paper figures are pretty cool, but what really excites me about origami are all of its modern applications.
D: Modern applications?
Y: Yeah, some of the same paper folding techniques used in origami to create figures like this little crane here have been adopted by researchers in fields as diverse as medicine, space science, and consumer electronics.
D: Really?
Y: Sure. For example in the early 2000s researchers at the University of Oxford 1 incorporated an origami pattern called the "waterbomb base" into a heart stent design. This allowed the device to fold into a very small package for its trip through the small blood vessels 2 leading to the weakened artery 3 where it could then be expanded to provide support and hold the artery open.
D: Cool!
Y: Scientists working in the automobile 4 industry have used origami folding patterns in making computer simulated airbags. Also space scientists have recently used origami techniques to fold a large lens of a telescope up into a tiny package that fits nicely in a spaceship, and then can be unfolded again out in space.
D: It sounds like all of these designs have used origami folding methods in a similar way: to make something that needs to be large and expansive at its destination small and compact for its journey there.
Y: Bingo.  
 

1 Oxford
n.牛津(英国城市)
  • At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
  • This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
2 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 artery
n.干线,要道;动脉
  • We couldn't feel the changes in the blood pressure within the artery.我们无法感觉到动脉血管内血压的变化。
  • The aorta is the largest artery in the body.主动脉是人体中的最大动脉。
4 automobile
n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
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adjusting motion
alkali basaltic magma
angelifying
aspidosycarpine
augustin eugene scribes
bacillary enteritis
barrier diffusion
blastissimo
collectional
combined workshop
continuous wave generator
deathlier
deception group
Demanol
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dictionary code table
diphyodonts
domestic gas appliance
double-magnification imaging
driver ant
DSPR.
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dust-tight construction
electric car retarder
erwinia mangiferae (doidge) bergey et al.
evaporation velocity
fine screening
flavcured ginger
food substance
gaff lights
go down swinging
grandville
heat-stable
heliotherapist
hopper diluting instalation
indigenous theater
international standard meter
investment level movement
keyword system
ksev
Lambert conformal projection
laundrette
litter cleaning machine
Mampi
manager,s share
marginal probability functions
mechanism of self-purification
meridional tangential ray
mobile Pentium
moscow' schleissheim
mountain oyster
multibuffering
multiprogramming system library
mwd
nanoplates
niniteenth
nucleus sensorius superior nervi trigemini
old-fashioned
on the fiddle
Oncomavirus
oothec-
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paybill
PEGylate
plane drawing
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pretendent
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Pujaut
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romanticizer
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scolecithricella longispinosa
semantics evaluation
sex-cell ridge
shakedown theory
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Tonobrein
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unbandage
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urathritis
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wallis
waterville