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新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit33:Plankton浮游生物 33 Plankton浮游生物. Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals called plankton. Most of these plants and animals are too small for the human eye to see. They drift about lazily with the currents, providing a basic food for many larger animals. Plankton has been described as the equi...
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem.请别用哀伤的诗句对我讲； 人生呵，无非虚梦一场！ 因为沉睡的灵魂如死一般， 事物的表里并不一样。Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.人生是实在的！人生是热烈的！ 人...
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit30:The origin of Refrigerators 30 The origin of Refrigerators By the mid-nineteenth century, the term “icebox” had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and...
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit42:Coal-fired power plants 42.Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations. (which were set up at the end of the ninet...
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit45:The Source of Energe 45.The source of Energy A summary of the physical and chemical nature of life must begin, not on the Earth, but in the Sun; in fact, at the Sun’s very center. It is here that is to be found the source of the energy that the Sun constantly pours out into space as light and heat. This energy is librated at the center of ...
I first found out about this confrontation when I was in graduate school, and it kind of blew me away. 我第一次听说这个故事的时候还在念研究生，这个故事让我太惊讶了。 I mean, how could the word scientist not have existed until 1833? 我是说“科学家”这个词怎么可能是1833年才出现的？ What were scientists called before? 在那之前科学家们如何称呼自己？ What had changed to make a new ...
I'd like you to come back with me for a moment to the 19th century, specifically to June 24, 1833. 我希望先带你们回到19世纪，确切地说回到1833年6月24日。 The British Association for the Advancement of Science 英国科学促进协会正在剑桥大学， is holding its third meeting at the University of Cambridge. 召开第三届大会。 It's the first night of the meeting, 会议举办的第一...
The second trap is a confusion between experience and memory; 第二个陷阱是经验和记忆间的混淆： basically, it's between being happy in your life, 基本上这是在生活中体会快乐 and being happy about your life or happy with your life. 与觉得生活很快乐以及对于你的生活满意之间的差别。 And those are two very different concepts, 这两者的意义相距甚远， and they're both lumped i...
It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults 你们或许会惊讶于，只有28%的美国成年人 have even a very basic level of science literacy, 具备基本的科学知识， and this was tested by asking simple questions like, 而测试用的问题都是非常简单的： "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" 例如“人类和恐龙是生活在一个时代的么？” and...
And if you would choose a different vacation, 如果你选了个不同的假期， there is a conflict between your two selves, 你的两个自我之间将会产生冲突， and you need to think about how to adjudicate that conflict, 你得想法来裁决这场冲突， and it's actually not at all obvious, because if you think in terms of time, 这并不怎么容易，因为假若你仅考虑时间 then you get one answer, a...
This is an old study. Those are actual patients undergoing a painful procedure. 这是一个古老的研究。一些真正的病人将会接受一种痛苦的治疗方法。 I won't go into detail. It's no longer painful these days, 细节不再详述。现今的疗法已不再如此难受， but it was painful when this study was run in the 1990s. 但在研究进行的九十年代时，这种方法令人痛不欲生。 They were asked to r...
Everybody talks about happiness these days. 最近大家都在谈论着快乐。 I had somebody count the number of books with "happiness" in the title published in the last five years 在过去的五年里，我请人数了近年来有多本书的书名中提到“快乐”， and they gave up after about 40, and there were many more. 他们数到大约有40本，而且还有更多没数到的。 There is a huge wave of interes...
But now, because the reflective self is in charge, 不过，既然现实由思考自我主导， you may end up — some people may end up moving to California. 一些人可能会得到这样一种结论，那就是搬到加州。 And it's sort of interesting to trace what is going to happen 他们搬去加州是为了过上更快乐的生活， to people who move to California in the hope of getting happier. 而追踪观看他...
The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self 近年来，经验自我的快乐 and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, 和记忆自我的满足的差异性已能分清， and there are now efforts to measure the two separately. 目前正努力来分别测度两者， The Gallup Organization has a world poll where more than half a million people 盖洛普公司...
We know something about what controls satisfaction of the happiness self. 我们知道什么能够让人的快乐得到满足。 We know that money is very important, goals are very important. 我们知道钱是很重要的，目标也非常重要。 We know that happiness is mainly being satisfied with people that we like, 我们知道要快乐是需要通过我们所喜爱的人来满足， spending time with people that we like. ...
Richard Jones became an important economist who later influenced Karl Marx. 理查德·琼斯成为了一名重要的经济学家，日后他影响到了卡尔·马克思。 And Whewell not only coined the term scientist, as well as the words anode, cathode and ion, 胡威立不仅创造了“科学家”这个词，还创造了“阳极”、“阴极”和“离子”， but spearheaded international big science with his global research on the tide...
I mean, most of the moments of our life — 我们生活中的大多片刻– and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; 我算了算–从心理学角度来说仅仅只是三秒长。 that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; 这意味着人一生中大约有六亿个片刻。 in a month, there are about 600,000 — most o...
I mean, how much do we consume our memories? 我们使用了多少的记忆？ That is one of the explanations that is given for the dominance of the remembering self. 这可以解释记忆自我为何能成为主导的自我。 And when I think about that, I think about a vacation we had in Antarctica a few years ago, 这让我想起一次假期，几年前在南极度过的假期， which was clearly the best vacation I'...
And in this way, time is actually the critical variable 因此时间是区分 that distinguishes a remembering self from an experiencing self; 记忆自我和经验自我的关键因素。 time has very little impact on the story. 时间对这个故事的影响不大。 Now, the remembering self does more than remember and tell stories. 记忆自我所做的不仅是记忆和讲述故事。 It is actually the one that makes de...
What this is telling us, really, 这告诉我们， is that we might be thinking of ourselves and of other people in terms of two selves. 我们在思考自己和别人时，用了两种自我。 There is an experiencing self, 第一种则为经验自我， who lives in the present and knows the present, is capable of re-living the past, 这种自我活在当下，洞察当下，同时也能回味过往， but basically it has only...