這是一部有關現代科學發(fā)展史的既通俗易懂又引人入勝的書，作者用清晰明了、幽默風趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類文明發(fā)展進程中所發(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，歷歷在目的天下萬物組成了本書，益于人們了解大千世界的無窮奧妙，掌握萬事萬物的發(fā)展脈絡。
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書本的朗讀語音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好學著模仿哦~~~?。?
因為原著為美國人所寫,單詞采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后聽寫單詞或詞組(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。請邊聽寫邊理解文意，根據上下文注意各句標號，這樣有助于提高正確率。



[---1---] Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the [-2-] stuff in it—the Sun, the planets and their moons, the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt, comets, and other miscellaneous drifting detritus—fills less than a trillionth of the available space. [---3---] Most schoolroom charts show the planets coming one after the other at neighborly intervals—the outer giants actually cast shadows over each other in many illustrations—but this is a necessary deceit to get them all on the same piece of paper. Neptune in reality isn't just a little bit beyond Jupiter, it's way beyond Jupiter—five times farther from Jupiter than Jupiter is from us, so far out that it receives only 3% as much sunlight as Jupiter.

Such are the distances, in fact, that it isn't possible, in any practical terms, to draw the solar system to scale. [---4---] On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 1000 feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a [-5-], so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway). [-6-], Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost 10,000 miles away. Even if you [-7-] down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a [-8-], Pluto would still be over 35 feet away.