day 1 ?words and expressions
1. palaeontology 古生物學(xué)，化石學(xué)
2. interstellar? 星際的
3. stromatolite? 疊層
4. debut： n/ v.? to perform or be introduced to the public for the first time: 初次登臺(tái)
eg. The Broadway show debuted last year to great acclaim.
5. intrigue? n/v
?v.? to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious: 引起興趣
eg. Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
n. (the making of) a secret plan to do something, especially something that will harm another person:
eg. a tale of political intrigue
6. swathe 帶子
7. basalt? 玄武巖
8 outcrop? 露出地面的巖層
9. quartz? 石英
10. nodules: 結(jié)節(jié)
11. hematite? 赤鐵礦
12. filament? 細(xì)絲
13. corkscrew? 螺旋形的
14. hydrothermal 熱液的
15. crenellated? 有雉堞的
16. tectonic? 地殼構(gòu)造的
17. coiled? 盤繞的
18. pore 毛孔
19. gradient? 梯度
20. paleobiologist? 古生物學(xué)家
21. one-off? 一次性事物
22. microbe : 微生物
23. scrutiny: the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information about it: 仔細(xì)審查
eg. The government's record will be subjected to/come under (close) scrutiny in the weeks before the election.
day 2：神句練習(xí) & 思維導(dǎo)圖
神句練習(xí)
1. The team contends that these bear more than a passing resemblance to the networks of bacteria that live in hydrothermal vents--towering, crenellated structures that form in the deep ocean above the boundaries between tectonic plates, where superheated mineral-laden water spurts up from beneath the seabed.
帕皮諾教授及其團(tuán)隊(duì)認(rèn)為他們發(fā)現(xiàn)的巖石與生活在熱液噴口的細(xì)菌群落在結(jié)構(gòu)上的相似之處絕非偶然雷逆。熱液噴口本身是高聳壤追、有雉堞的結(jié)構(gòu)，這些結(jié)構(gòu)形成于地表各構(gòu)造板塊分界出上部深海示弓，是過(guò)熱的海水從海底噴射出來(lái)冷卻之后形成讳侨。滾燙的海水里還攜帶著大量礦物質(zhì)。
2. Such a find is doubly intriguing because hydrothermal vents are seen as a plausible candidate for the cradle of life.
帕皮諾教授的發(fā)現(xiàn)更是激發(fā)了人們的興趣因?yàn)闊嵋簢娍诒徽J(rèn)為是最有可能的生命起源之地奏属。
3. Although the sorts of bacteria apparently found by Dr. Papineau and his colleagues are too complicated to reveal much about the very earliest organisms, the suggestion that hydrothermal vents have played host to life for so long is a strike in the theory’s favor.
帕皮諾教授團(tuán)隊(duì)發(fā)現(xiàn)的多種細(xì)菌都太過(guò)復(fù)雜跨跨，顯然不能準(zhǔn)確反映出最早生命形式的特點(diǎn)。但是熱液噴口中一直存在著生命囱皿，這一可能性可以支持帕皮諾教授的理論勇婴。
思維導(dǎo)圖
day 3?
小結(jié)
? ? The article mainly talks about when does life begin, which scientists are less surer about, compared with the time that the Earth came into being. The evidence for stromatolites last year suggests life began with photosynthesising bacteria 3.7 bilion years ago. But accordign to the evidence from the rocks found by Dr. Papineau and his team, which resembles the networks of bacteria living in hydrothermal vent, a plausible candidate for the cradle of life, life might begin even earlier, between 3.8 and 4.3 bilion years ago. Although the evidence is not conclusive, the finding is rather intruging. If confirmed, it can bring about other important implications. The earlist life was sustained not by photosynthesis but by the energy from? the reactions between the dissolved chemicals that well up from the crust since sunlight could not penetrate so deep in the oceans. Alongside that, if the Earth began host life within its early stage of formation is firmed, it wll futher cause the argumentation about whether life is an inevitable and common consequence of the law of the chemistry or a lucky one-off only on Earth.
最開(kāi)始只發(fā)現(xiàn)全文生詞太多了，讀不懂铆帽，有點(diǎn)蒙咆耿。后來(lái)經(jīng)過(guò)一個(gè)一個(gè)環(huán)節(jié)的練習(xí)，逐漸掌握了文章主要脈絡(luò)爹橱。聽(tīng)完篤師的講解之后萨螺，疑惑基本疏通。然后做了一個(gè)英文的小結(jié)愧驱，加深一下印象慰技，順便檢驗(yàn)一下自己是否確實(shí)已明白文章的要點(diǎn)。感覺(jué)收獲頗豐组砚。每天領(lǐng)取任務(wù)會(huì)有一絲期待吻商，打卡的時(shí)候滿滿的成就感。再接再厲嗷嗷糟红。
