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演讲简介：
1812年，四位学者在在剑桥大学一起吃了一顿早餐。一次影响至今的科学革命就这样开始了。这四个人——在“科学家”一词出现之前自称“自然哲学家”——将四个基本原则引入科学领域。哲学家、历史学家劳拉·斯奈德（Laura Snyder）讲述了他们这段奇妙的故事。
n. 识字，读写能力
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- 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 "What proportion of the Earth is covered in water?"
- “地球表面有多少部分覆盖着水？”
- Once scientists became members of a professional group,
- 一旦科学家变成一个专业的团体，
- they were slowly walled off from the rest of us.
- 他们就开始慢慢的跟大众脱离了。
- This is the unintended consequence of the revolution that started with our four friends.
- 这是我们这四位朋友开启革命时没有想到的。
- Charles Darwin said, "I sometimes think that general and popular treatises
- 达尔文说过：“我时常想到，通俗和大众的科普文章的重要性
- are almost as important for the progress of science as original work."
- 跟科学领域的原创工作应该是同等重要的。”
- In fact, "Origin of Species" was written for a general and popular audience,
- 事实上，《物种起源》面向的就是通俗和普通的读者，
- and was widely read when it first appeared.
- 并且在初次发表之后得到了广泛传阅。
- Darwin knew what we seem to have forgotten, that science is not only for scientists. Thank you.
- 达尔文知道我们似乎忘记了一点：科学不仅仅是科学家的事情。谢谢。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| literacy | ['litərəsi] | 联想记忆 | ||
| proportion | [prə'pɔ:ʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| professional | [prə'feʃənl] | |||
| original | [ə'ridʒənl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| species | ['spi:ʃiz] | |||
| consequence | ['kɔnsikwəns] | 联想记忆 | ||
| revolution | [.revə'lu:ʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| inhabit | [in'hæbit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| popular | ['pɔpjulə] | 联想记忆 |
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