Unit 1 Great scientists
I. Phrases
1. put forward 提出
2. draw a conclusion 得出結論
3. be/get under control 在……控制下
be/get out of control失去控制，不能操縱
4. be absorbed in 專心
5. be to blame 應該受責備（用主動形式表示被動）
blame sb. for sth. 因某事責備某人
6. in addition 也，另外，此外
7. link...to... 將…和…連接或聯(lián)系起來
8. die of 因…而死亡（內因）
die from 因…而死亡（外因）
9. lead to 導致，通向
10. make sense 有意義，說得通
11. apart from 除…之外，此外
12. contribute to 為…作貢獻或捐款，導致，有助于
13. be enthusiastic about 對…熱情
14. be curious about 對…好奇
15. cure sb. of illness 治好某人…病
16. point of view 態(tài)度，觀點，看法
17.（be）strict with sb. 對某人要求嚴格
II. Sentences
1. John Snow was a well-known doctor in London – so famous, indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria to ease the birth of her babies.
約翰·斯諾曾經是倫敦一位著名的醫(yī)生——他的確太負盛名了，所以維多利亞女皇生孩子時都是他去照料，幫助她順利分娩。
2. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera.
但當他一想到要幫助患病的普通老百姓，特別是那些得了霍亂的患者時，他就感到很振奮。
3. Neither its cause, nor its cure was understood.
人們既不知道它的病源，也不了解它的治療方法。
4. He knew it would never be controlled until its cause was found.
他知道，在找到病源之前，疫情是無法控制的。
5. He got interested in two theories explaining how cholera killed people.
霍亂之所以能致人于死，當時有兩種看法，斯諾對這兩種推測都很感興趣。
6. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals.
第二種看法是在吃飯的時候人們把這種病毒引入體內的。
7. He believed in the second theory but needed to prove he was correct.
他相信第二種說法，但是需要證明他是正確的。
8. It seemed that the water was to blame.
看來要歸罪于飲用水了。
9. Immediately John Snow told the astonished people in Broad Street to remove the handle from the water pump so it could not be used.
約翰·斯諾馬上叫寬街上驚惶失措的老百姓拆掉水泵的把手，這樣水泵就用不成了。
10. Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense.
只有當你把太陽放在中心位置上，天空中其它行星的運動才能說得清楚。
11. But only his new theory could do that.
看是只有他的新理論才能作出解釋。
12. Yet Copernicus’ theory is now the base on which all our ideas of the universe are built.
然而哥白尼的理論卻是我們宇宙賴以建立的基礎。
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