Day 1:
第一天的单词总结作业
1. perpetual
adj: to describe something that never ends or changes
If you're a perpetual procrastinator, your dilly-dallying ways are never going to improve.
synonyms: everlasting, eternal, permanent
similar word: perpetuate 使持续,使长存 the aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design; perpetrate: 犯罪,施暴,干坏事 Federal soldiers have been accused of perpetrating atrocities against innocent people.
2. speculative
adj: not based on fact or iinvestigation
Anything speculative is based on prediction: whatever it hasn't happened yet.
synonyms: notional, questioning, high-rish
词性变化:
动词:推测speculate
名词:speculator投机商
名词:speculation猜测,推测,推断
3. compelling
adj: really really convincing; attractive; irresistible
令人信服的,很有说服力的,引人入胜的,激动人心的
You know your argument for backpacking across Europe is compelling when your parents not only let you go but also pay for all your expenses
It's a fairly compelling argument for going.
synonyms: persuasive
词性变化:
动词:compel强迫 逼迫
形容词:被迫的,不得不地compelled
形近词:
compendium: 概要、概略
4. apparatus
noun: 1)a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose
a piece of apparatus; the divers checked their breathing apparatus
2) an organization or system, especially a political one(尤指政治)机构,组织,机制
the whole apparatus of communism was already falling apart.
同义词synonyms: setup
形近词:apparel: 衣服,服装apparent:显而易见的,表面上的,貌似的;
5. alchemy
noun:炼金术,炼丹术;事物的神秘变化
6. combustion
noun: the act of burning
the combustion of fallen leaves that, if not extinguished immediately, can result in a forest fire.
同义词synonyms: burning
词性变化;
adj:可燃的,易燃的 combustible
7. open up
verb: bring sth new to an environment
open up new fields of science
同义词synonyms: pioneer
除此之外还有:敞开心扉,倾吐心声I‘ve never opened up to anyone like i do to you’
8. contemporary
adj: either happening at the same time or happening now 当代的;现代的
almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
几乎所有关于这一事件的同时期的记载都遗失了。
noun:someone living during the same period as somenone else 同时代的人, 同龄人,同辈
she didn't mix with her contemporaries, preferning the company of older people
她不和同龄人混在一起,而是喜欢喝年长的人相处。
synonyms: contemporaneous; present-day; modern-day;
形近词:contempt noun(no respect)蔑视,鄙视
9. electromagnetism
noun: the science of magnetism and electrical currents电磁学
词性变化:
adj:电磁的 eletromagnetic
noun:电磁铁,电磁体 eletromagnet
10. magnetism
noun:a quality that makes someone very attractive to other peopel吸引力 魅力
the power of being able to attract iron and steel objects and also push them away 磁力
词性变化:
verb:magnetize使磁化
adj:magnetic 磁的,有磁性的,磁化的;有吸引力的,有魅力的
11. infinity
noun: time or space that has no end 时空无限,无穷大,无数,无穷远
the mountain range stretched away into infinity 山脉延绵不绝
an infinity of stars in the galaxy
词性变化:
adv:infinitely非常,无限地
形近词:infinitive动词原形,不定式;infinitesimal: extremely small极微小的
12. take root
verb: if a idea, belief, or system taks root somewhere, it starts to be accepted there.
Communism has never really taken root in English.
synonyms: root; settle; settle down; steady down
13. daunting
adj: making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve sth 令人气馁的
the country was faced with the dauting prospect of overcoming four decades of division
synonyms: intimidating, discouraging
词性变化:
动词:daunt使发憷,吓到,使气馁 she was not at all daunted by the size of the problem.
adj: dauntless决然的,无畏的with dauntless optimism
14. decode
verb: 破译 to discover the meaning of information given in a secret or comlicated way
synonyms:decipher, decrypt
反义词:encode编码
词性变化:
名词:decoder解码器
15. immortal
adj: living or lasting for ever永生的,永存的,不朽的,流芳百世的
In the immortal words of Samuel Goldwyn, 'include me out'
noun: 不朽的人物 someone who is so famous that they are remembered for a long time after they are dead
she is one of the immortals of classical opera.
synonyms: infinite, heavenly, deathless
词性变化:
动词:immortalize使不朽
反义词:mortal终有一死的,致命的
形近词:immoral:道德败坏的;immolate:将...作为祭品杀死;immodest自负的,不谦虚的;immovable:不可移动的
16. supernova
noun: a star that has exploded, strongly increasing its brightness for a few months超新星
17. quash
verb: declare invalid; refuse; stop 撤销,废止,宣布无效
the revolt was swiftly quashed by the government troops.
synonyms: annual,avoid,invalidate,void
18. monopoly
noun: complete control of something 垄断,独占
the govenment is determined to protect its tobacco monopoly
词性变化:verb:monopolize垄断,实行...专卖
形近词:monoplane单翼机
19. exquisite
adj: 精致的 精美的 very beautiful and delicate
she has exquisite taste她品味高雅
synonyms:dainty, delicate, beautiful
20. corpse
noun: a dead body, usually of a person 通常指人的尸体
synonyms:cadaver,clay, remains, stiff
21. dissection
noun: 解剖 the action of cutting something open, especiallly a dead body or plant, in order to study its structure
synonyms: cutting
Day 2:
第二天的逻辑图
Day 3:
第三天的总结作业
This article gave me a brief introduction of the history of science. Thanks to the middle school education, I understood most of the information the author was talking about. What is the science? Science is to discover how the Universe works that goes back to the earliest civilizations. If you want to do science as better as possible, these three steps must be included. First, I should make observations, which means it really exists, it is nothing fancy. Then you should form a theory to explain why it exists like that. The last and also most important step is that you shold do some experiments to convince people that this theory is valid. Doing science is sometimes boring, because you may achieve nothing new for several years or decades. But if you keep doing, you can gain something, at least set the foundation for the successors. Facts proved that many of the findings are based on previous work. Today, science focuses more on black hole and human genome project, etc.