Day1
1.→Science is an ongoing search for truth.
she's ready to resign or dissolve the parliament to end the ongoing political turmoil.
為了結(jié)束泰國(guó)持續(xù)不斷的政治動(dòng)蕩，她愿意辭職或解散議會(huì)。
-currently happening?
adj. 前進(jìn)的；不間斷的，進(jìn)行的
2.→a perpetual struggle
As the parents had five children,life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.
perpetual mobile 永動(dòng)機(jī) perpetual calendar 萬(wàn)年歷
【近】lasting，permanent,continuous
【反】temporary
3.→driven by curiosity 興趣使然 driven by interests 受利益驅(qū)使
造句：The great innovations totally driven by curiosity.
4.→he asserted that...
-to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true=asseverate,maintain
-insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized=affirm,verify,avow,aver,swan,swear
Women should assert themselves more! 女性應(yīng)該更加堅(jiān)持捍衛(wèi)自己的權(quán)利！
assert to be true 斷言某事是真實(shí)的
-take a firm stand
-put forward
5.→...a good scientist must rely on empirical evidence
-adj.based on observation or experimentation
Yet the "buffer theory" seems to be based on weak empirical foundations.
但是，"緩沖理論"似乎建立在薄弱的經(jīng)驗(yàn)主義基礎(chǔ)之上的。
empirical laws.?約定俗成的法律
【反】theoretical
6.→pick holes in the argument,and so falsify the theory.
找出理論的漏洞；聯(lián)想-雞蛋里挑骨頭，吹毛求疵find quarrel in a straw
-to prove false=disprove/ confute 證明虛假
-to make (a report, evidence, accounts, etc) false, fraudulent or inaccurate by alteration, esp in order to deceive 篡改，歪曲:falsify an income-tax report.
falsify=disprove=discredit
7.→speculative
8.→compelling evidence ?adj.引人入勝的;扣人心弦的;非常強(qiáng)烈的;不可抗拒的;有說(shuō)服力的
-tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument=persuasive
-driving or forcing=powerful
9.→progressions of idea ?思想的連續(xù)
it is a logical progression from the job before.這是以前工作的必然結(jié)果。
progressional?
procession
→...got faster and faster as it progressed
10.→an eclipse of the sun/moon ?日/月食
11.→many ingenious mechanical devices were invented
造句：he is so ingenious that come up with a ingenious solution/way.
【近】creative,originative,artful,adroit
【反】uncreative,artless,maladroit
12.→the publication of two ground-breaking books
開(kāi)拓性的；獨(dú)創(chuàng)的
13.→...discovered the role of oxygen in combustion
燃燒；燒毀 internal ?combustion engine 內(nèi)燃機(jī)
14.→?palaeontology became fashionable as the remains of extinct creatures began to turn up
古生物學(xué) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? vt. 朝上翻,來(lái)到,卷起,找到,出現(xiàn),發(fā)生
15.→...,shaking classical physics and ending the idea of an absolute time and space
16.→...which seemed like a daunting task in prospect 展望中
-discouraging through fear adj. 使人畏縮的；使人氣餒的；令人怯步的
【近】discouraging
17.→the relentless search for the truths continues
adj.殘酷的, 不留情的, 無(wú)憐憫心的
a sturdy relentless effort ?穩(wěn)定、堅(jiān)持不懈的努力
【反】relent vi. 變溫和，變寬厚；減弱；緩和vt. 使變溫和；減輕
18.→Meanwhile, in India, China, and the Mediterranean, people tried to?make sense of?the movement of the heavenly bodies.
make sense of =understand
19.move a hope into reality
20.It seems likely that there will always be more questions than answers,but future discoveries will surely continue to amaze.
Day 2 ?Annie講解+邏輯圖
1.→how the Universe works that?goes back to?the earliest civilizations.
go back to 追溯到，返回/表示認(rèn)識(shí)很久了
we have been friends for ?long time =we go back.
date back to（定日期）/start off（以...開(kāi)始）
2.→The best known of?the ancient Greek philosophers, Aristotle, wrote widely on scientific subjects
3.→...if one object had twice the weight of another, it would fall twice as fast.
4.learn off 聽(tīng)說(shuō)，了解
5.turn up 出現(xiàn) ?show up 主動(dòng)出現(xiàn)
6. sth. come with sth. 隨之出現(xiàn)
7.leap-frogging 跳躍式前進(jìn)
8.take root in=it starts to develop/grow 開(kāi)拓了市場(chǎng)
9.Don't baby me!不要把我當(dāng)小孩兒啦
10.閱讀題tips：一段里如果沒(méi)有明顯的轉(zhuǎn)折，那說(shuō)明還在敘述同一件事，遇到不認(rèn)識(shí)的詞也可以大致判斷意思。
Day 3
行文很流暢，上一句跟下一句之間不會(huì)很突兀的轉(zhuǎn)折。同時(shí)又能用很簡(jiǎn)潔的詞匯、句式敘述清楚。反思自己的寫(xiě)作，常常語(yǔ)句出現(xiàn)的很突兀，需要聯(lián)想一下，然而考試的閱卷老師誰(shuí)會(huì)幫你多想一下啊。其實(shí)真正原因是自己連續(xù)的邏輯力差，以致平時(shí)說(shuō)話(huà)習(xí)慣也是跳躍性強(qiáng)。還有一部分原因是：沒(méi)有充分的論據(jù)理清與主題的關(guān)系，因此在表達(dá)上說(shuō)起來(lái)也比較虛。
