第5章 敲石头的人 The Stone-Breakers · 第3讲

课程:《万物简史》慕课教程(WANWUJS001)主讲:余俊英副教授(数字人)词汇 33 条句型 1 条要点 1 条
一、本课要点
二、核心词汇(33)
词条释义 / 讲解
provocativeadj. 挑衅的,煽动性的。指意图引起愤怒或激烈讨论。
pamphletsn. 小册子。薄而小的书籍,常用于宣传或科普。
be implicated inphr. 卷入,牵扯进(坏事)。指被牵连进某事件。
conspiracyn. 阴谋。指少数人秘密策划做有害或非法之事。
Privy Counciln. 枢密院。英国君主的最高咨询机构,处理国家大事。
within an ace ofphr. 差点,几乎。源自纸牌中的A,指极其接近某种结果。
in ironsphr. 戴镣铐。指被锁上手铐脚镣,常指囚犯被押送。
landmark studyn. 里程碑式的研究。指具有划时代意义、开创性的研究。
natural wonders自然界的奇珍异宝。指自然界中罕见、美丽的物体或现象。
unrestrained不加节制的,无约束的。un-(否定)+ restrained(受限制的)。
bankrupt破产的。drive oneself bankrupt 意为导致自己破产。
influential有影响力的。influence(影响)+ -ial(形容词后缀)。
feckless无用的,碌碌无为的。指缺乏效率或决心。
vigor活力,精力。intellectual vigor 指智力上的活跃与充沛。
distinction杰出,卓越。a man of distinction 指杰出人物。
oddity怪人,古怪的事物。指行为或性格奇特的人。
eccentricities古怪行为,怪癖。形容词为 eccentric(古怪的)。
menagerie私人动物园,豢养野生动物的场所。区别于公共 zoo。
whimn. 一时冲动,心血来潮。指突然产生的、无理性或不可预测的念头。
battern. 蛋面糊。将面粉、蛋、液体混合成的糊状物,常用于油炸食物。
meritn. 价值,优点。此处指Buckland认为这些动物作为食物各有可取之处。
coproliten. 粪化石。化石化的粪便,是古生物学研究的重要线索。
pasten. 糊状物。此处指面粉加水制成的面糊,用于拓印脚印。
plunkv. 砰地放下。拟声词作动词,形容重物落下发出沉闷声音的动作。
buffoonn. 小丑,滑稽者。达尔文用来形容Buckland行为荒诞可笑。
improbableadj. 不太可能的,难以想象的。语境:形容姿势怪异,让人觉得很难想象有人会做出。
all butadv. 几乎,差点儿。语境:all but touch the floor(差点碰到地板),强调滑得极低。
consolidatev. 巩固,强化。语境:consolidated the thoughts(巩固并强化了之前的观点)。
elaborate uponphr. 详细阐述,详尽解释。语境:elaborated upon the thoughts(对观点进行了详细论述)。
student ofphr. ……的研究者/爱好者。语境:a student of history(历史研究者),指专注学习某领域的人,非仅指在校生。
catastrophismn. 灾变论。词根:catastrophe(大灾难)。语境:与均变论对立的地质学理论。
uniformitarianismn. 均变论。词根:uniform(均匀的)。语境:认为地质变化是缓慢、均匀过程的理论。
incorporatev. 包含,吸收。语境:incorporate the biblical flood(将圣经洪水故事纳入科学讨论)。
三、句型与语法点(1)
要点说明
which 非限制性定语从句which指代garden mole,在从句中作declared的宾语,补足语为disgusting。
四、课堂讨论题
1. 老师,讲稿里说 Parkinson 差点被发配到澳大利亚,这里的 'came within an ace of' 具体是啥意思呀?为什么用 'ace'(一点/王牌)来表示‘差点’呢?
2. 为什么 Parkinson 写的那本关于化石的书叫 'Organic Remains of a Former World'?这里的 'Remains' 是指尸体残骸还是别的什么?
3. 讲稿里提到 Parkinson 和 Murchison 都很出名,但说 Lyle 'more influential than all the others combined',这俩人的影响力到底有啥区别?是贡献大小不同还是别的啥原因?
4. Lyle 的妈妈为啥非要把他带到英格兰南部养,说苏格兰人是 'feckless drunks'?这反映了当时英国人对苏格兰人有啥刻板印象?
5. Lyle 的父亲既是研究但丁的文学权威,又是研究苔藓的植物学专家,这两样东西看起来风马牛不相及,为啥他会同时是这两个领域的权威呢?
五、Discussion Questions (English)
1. What exactly does 'came within an ace of' mean in the context of Parkinson being sent to Australia? Why use 'ace' to express 'almost'?
2. Why is Parkinson's book on fossils titled 'Organic Remains of a Former World'? Does 'Remains' here refer to corpses or something else?
3. The transcript says Lyle was 'more influential than all the others combined.' What's the actual difference in influence between Lyle and the others like Parkinson or Murchison?
4. Why did Lyle's mother move him to southern England, calling Scots 'feckless drunks'? What stereotype about Scots does this reveal?
5. Lyle's father was an authority on both Dante and mosses. These two fields seem completely unrelated; why was he an expert in both?
六、听力 / 讲稿全文
1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,800 大白星阿尔伦托尔丰 2 00:00:07,540 --> 00:00:10,040 前段 3 00:00:11,930 --> 00:00:19,750 时间我们学到大众超大的图像波尔林墨齿森和其他人 4 00:00:19,750 --> 00:00:22,750 包括杜特杨克林森、 5 00:00:24,190 --> 00:00:29,290 查尔斯莱奥我们已经学到几个人与 6 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:33,400 威廉伯克伦我们今天也将学到他们 7 00:00:35,220 --> 00:00:38,020 Then there was Dr.James Parkinson, 8 00:00:38,460 --> 00:00:41,940 who was also an early socialist and author of many 9 00:00:41,940 --> 00:00:45,200 provocative pamphlets with titles like Revolution 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,600 Without Bloodshed. 11 00:00:47,060 --> 00:00:49,600 Socialist 是社会主义者, 12 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,700 Socialism 社会主义。 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,760 社会主义主张整个社会应该作为一个整体, 14 00:00:55,820 --> 00:01:01,760 拥有生产资料,管理和分配都应该是基于公众利益。 15 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:02,880 在 18、 16 00:01:02,980 --> 00:01:08,560 19 世纪社会主义的概念在西欧广为流传目前中国就是 17 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:14,590 实施这种制度的国家 Provocative If something is 18 00:01:14,590 --> 00:01:19,190 provocative it is intended to make people angry or to 19 00:01:19,190 --> 00:01:23,770 cause a lot of discussion P amphlets are small thin 20 00:01:23,770 --> 00:01:26,410 books like these 小册子 21 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,580 除了 Murchison 还有 Dr.James Parkinson 22 00:01:33,180 --> 00:01:40,200 他也是早期的社会主义者写了一些充满挑衅性质的充 23 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:45,080 满煽动性的小册子题目往往就是 Revolution without 24 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,940 bloodshed 不流血的革命这样的 25 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,820 with a poisoned dart as he sat in his box at the theater to 26 00:02:07,370 --> 00:02:11,610 be implicated in something means to be involved in 27 00:02:11,610 --> 00:02:15,950 something 卷入到一件事情中牵扯到了一件事情 28 00:02:16,530 --> 00:02:21,830 lunatic 大家应该要记得第一课就提到这个词当 29 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,060 时说到这个 lunatic 跟 luna 跟月亮是有点关系的就是 30 00:02:27,060 --> 00:02:31,520 疯疯癫癫的听起来疯狂的 conspiracyconspiracy 31 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,060 means a plot, 32 00:02:33,340 --> 00:02:37,260 a secret plan made by a few people to do something 33 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:42,520 harmful or illegalconspiracy 跟 plot 意思是相似的, 34 00:02:42,580 --> 00:02:45,660 都是指阴谋它的这个阴谋呢, 35 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,300 叫做 pop gun plotpop gun is like this, 36 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,180 是玩具手枪, 37 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:57,320 玩具气枪叫 pop gun 所以才说它是 lunatic sounding, 38 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:03,100 就有点疯狂怎么会用一把气枪去实施一个阴谋呢那 39 00:03:03,490 --> 00:03:07,970 这个阴谋的具体内容是 in which it was planned to shoot 40 00:03:07,970 --> 00:03:13,810 King George III in the neckwith a poisoned dartdart is 41 00:03:13,810 --> 00:03:17,650 like this,this is a dartpoisoned dart 就是毒标, 42 00:03:17,710 --> 00:03:23,030 上面涂了毒药的他们的计划就是用这把玩具手枪把一 43 00:03:23,030 --> 00:03:25,610 支毒标射向像 44 00:03:25,930 --> 00:03:32,670 这个 King George 英王乔治三世的脖子 As he sat in his 45 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:37,910 box at the theater 这个 he 还是指的是这个国王趁国王 46 00:03:37,910 --> 00:03:41,050 坐在剧场的包厢里面看表演的时候 47 00:03:41,690 --> 00:03:45,230 把他杀死这个 box 就是 48 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:50,600 这样的包厢剧场里的包厢叫 box 如果是酒店里面吃饭 49 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,200 的一间一间的包厢那个不叫 box 那个只是 room 或者 ch 50 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,680 amber Parkinson was hauled before the Privy Council 51 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,000 for questioning and came within an ace of being 52 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,480 dispatched in irons to Australiabefore the charges 53 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,570 against him were quietly dropped Privy Council Privy 54 00:04:11,570 --> 00:04:12,390 是机密 55 00:04:12,470 --> 00:04:15,430 秘密的意思而 Council 是指委员会 56 00:04:15,510 --> 00:04:17,850 理事会比如说 a student council 57 00:04:18,050 --> 00:04:19,870 学生会 the state council 58 00:04:20,110 --> 00:04:25,750 国务院而 Privy Council 我们把它翻译成书密院书密院 59 00:04:25,750 --> 00:04:31,170 是英国君主的咨询机构英国的女王或者国王经常要跟 60 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:36,610 书密院商讨一些国家大事这个书密院这个称呼呢本来 61 00:04:36,610 --> 00:04:42,800 其实是中国的唐朝到元朝期间的最高的军事机构那我 62 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,950 们就用这个词来翻译这个 Private Council 63 00:04:47,150 --> 00:04:48,790 Hold means to be 64 00:04:49,430 --> 00:04:54,390 Hold means pulled with great force 用力的托就是这个 65 00:04:54,390 --> 00:04:59,450 Parkinson 后来就被拖到书密院进行审问 and 66 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,520 came within an ace of being dispatched in irons to 67 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:09,300 Australia 差点就要被发配到澳大利亚去 with 68 00:05:09,910 --> 00:05:12,110 in an ace of means almost, 69 00:05:12,410 --> 00:05:17,560 nearlyace 这个词的本意是指纸牌游戏中的一点也就 70 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,550 是 a 或者这个骰子的一个点的那个就叫 ace 71 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:28,600 Dispatched means sent 就被送往那个地方那在这里因 72 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,250 为他是一个罪犯所以我们就翻译成发配被发配到澳大 73 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:37,270 利亚为什么会发配到这么远的地方呢为什么会到澳大 74 00:05:37,270 --> 00:05:42,290 利亚当时澳大利亚还不是一个独立的国家只是英国人 75 00:05:42,290 --> 00:05:45,210 发现了一块比较荒芜的新大陆而已 76 00:05:45,850 --> 00:05:50,590 所以英国人常常把自己的囚犯就发配到澳大利亚去流 77 00:05:50,590 --> 00:05:51,450 放到那儿去 78 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:56,630 现在澳大利亚的很多人他们的祖先其实就是当时的那 79 00:05:56,630 --> 00:05:58,390 些囚犯 in 80 00:05:59,090 --> 00:06:01,770 irons 指的是戴着手铐脚镣 81 00:06:02,330 --> 00:06:05,960 before the charges against him were quietly dropped 但 82 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,070 是他并没有被发配到澳大利亚因为很幸运 the charges 83 00:06:11,070 --> 00:06:17,850 是指控对他的指控后来就悄悄地被撤销了 adopting a 84 00:06:17,850 --> 00:06:19,990 more conservative approach to life 85 00:06:36,690 --> 00:06:37,130 出 86 00:06:37,770 --> 00:06:43,430 了这个事情以后呢他就采取了一种比较保险的人生态 87 00:06:43,430 --> 00:06:44,570 度人生的方式 88 00:06:45,050 --> 00:06:49,010 conservative 是保守的意思 A conservative person 89 00:06:49,010 --> 00:06:53,050 does not like changes or new ideas 不像原来那么激进了 90 00:06:53,050 --> 00:06:56,960 Approach 指的是态度方式他 91 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:04,200 对地质也开始感兴趣成了地质学会的早期的创始会员 92 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,700 之一 Founding, 93 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,760 found 就是建立创立也 94 00:07:08,980 --> 00:07:12,740 就是早期的那 13 个人之一 And the author of an 95 00:07:12,740 --> 00:07:16,720 important geological text 他还写了一本重要的地质 96 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,540 学著作 text 不要都翻译成课文这个就是指一本书 97 00:07:22,790 --> 00 ……(后略,完整文稿见视频页字幕)
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七、课堂练习(AI 生成)
1. 在课堂练习中,如果你想表达“他差点就错过了最后一班火车”,根据材料,应该使用以下哪个短语?
A. within an ace of
B. in irons
C. be implicated in
D. all but
答案:A · 根据板书,within an ace of 意为“差点,几乎”,符合语境。
2. 材料中提到某位历史人物行为举止异乎常人,经常做出一些令人费解的举动。若要描述他的这些“古怪行为,怪癖”,应选用哪个词汇?
A. eccentricities
B. oddity
C. buffoon
D. menagerie
答案:A · 板书明确标注 eccentricities 意为“古怪行为,怪癖”,与题干描述完全对应。
3. 在地质学理论对比练习中,均变论认为地质变化是一个缓慢且均匀的过程。根据板书要点,该理论的英文术语是?
A. catastrophism
B. uniformitarianism
C. landmark study
D. natural wonders
答案:B · 板书指出 uniformitarianism 为均变论,词根 uniform 意为均匀的,符合题干描述。
4. 课堂讨论环节,老师要求学生对之前的观点进行“详细阐述,详尽解释”。根据材料,应使用以下哪个短语?
A. consolidate
B. elaborate upon
C. incorporate
D. be implicated in
答案:B · 板书明确说明 elaborate upon 意为“详细阐述,详尽解释”,直接对应题干要求。
5. 语法专项练习中,句子“The garden mole, which he declared disgusting, was found in the soil.” 划线部分 which 引导的是非限制性定语从句。根据板书解析,which 在从句中充当什么成分?
A. 主语
B. 宾语
C. 表语
D. 状语
答案:B · 板书语法笔记明确指出,which 指代 garden mole,在从句中作 declared 的宾语。