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這是一部有關(guān)現(xiàn)代科學(xué)發(fā)展史的既通俗易懂又引人入勝的書(shū)，作者用清晰明了、幽默風(fēng)趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類(lèi)文明發(fā)展進(jìn)程中所發(fā)生的繁多妙趣橫生的故事一一收入筆下。驚奇和感嘆組成了本書(shū)，歷歷在目的天下萬(wàn)物組成了本書(shū)，益于人們了解大千世界的無(wú)窮奧妙，掌握萬(wàn)事萬(wàn)物的發(fā)展脈絡(luò)。
收獲英語(yǔ) 收獲一本好書(shū)~！

書(shū)本的朗讀語(yǔ)音很charming的磁性英音~(yú)~~大家可以好好學(xué)著模仿哦~~~！！
因?yàn)樵鵀槊绹?guó)人所寫(xiě),單詞采用美式拼法,不抄全文,不寫(xiě)各句標(biāo)號(hào)。

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And here's the thing. It wasn't exciting at all. It wasn't actually altogether comprehensible. Above all, it didn't answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? [---2---] And why isn't the rest of the interior melting-or is it? And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface? And how do you know this? How did you figure it out?

[---3---] It was as if he wanted to keep the good stuff secret by making all of it soberly unfathomable. [---4---] There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a longdistance phone call from the frankly interesting.

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Excited, I took the book home that night and opened it before dinner, an action that I expect prompted my mother to feel my forehead and ask if I was all right-and, starting with the first page, I read. And if it is burning away down there, why isn't the ground under our feet hot to the touch? But the author was strangely silent on such details-indeed, silent on everything but anticlines, synclines, axial faults, and the like. As the years passed, I began to suspect that this was not altogether a private impulse.
那天晚上，我很興奮，把這本書(shū)抱回了家，晚飯之前就把書(shū)打開(kāi)--我想，正是由于這個(gè)舉動(dòng)，我的母親摸了摸我的額頭，看看我是不是病了--翻到第一頁(yè)，讀了起來(lái)。 　　結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)，這本書(shū)毫不激動(dòng)人心。實(shí)際上，它不是包羅萬(wàn)象的。首先，它沒(méi)有回答插圖在正常人好奇的腦子里產(chǎn)生的任何問(wèn)題：我們行星的中央怎么會(huì)冒出來(lái)一個(gè)太陽(yáng)，他們?cè)趺粗浪臏囟?？要是它在下面熊熊燃燒，我們腳下的地面怎么摸上去不是燙的？為什么內(nèi)部的其余部分不在熔化，或者正在熔化？要是地心最終燒盡以后，地球的某個(gè)部分是不是會(huì)塌進(jìn)那個(gè)空間，在地面上留下一個(gè)大坑？而你是怎么知道這個(gè)的？你是怎么測(cè)算出來(lái)的？ 　　但是，說(shuō)來(lái)也怪，作者對(duì)這些具體疑問(wèn)只字不提--實(shí)際上對(duì)任何疑問(wèn)都只字不提，只是說(shuō)些什么背斜呀，向斜呀，地軸偏差呀，等等。他似乎有意把一切都弄得深不可測(cè)，以便守住好東西的秘密。隨著歲月流逝，我開(kāi)始認(rèn)為這不完全是個(gè)個(gè)人動(dòng)機(jī)。教科書(shū)的作者似乎有個(gè)普遍的陰謀，他們要極力確保他們寫(xiě)的材料絕不過(guò)于接近稍有意思的東西，起碼總是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)回避明顯有意思的東西。