Scientific American 60 Second Science听抄（有音频文件）

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我还是静不下心边听边写

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fill the void
to replace or provide something necessary. It is impossible to fill the void left by my sister's death.
go deep behind the scenes
What (do you think) is Humanity's Greatest Challenge?
Field Day

美国副总统Dick Cheney开枪误伤一位律师朋友的事想必大家都已经知道。我原来以为它热闹个两三天就会淡下去的，没想到过了十多天，世界各地（尤其是美国本土）的媒体还在津津乐道，热情似乎丝毫没有减退的迹象，真是应了那句老话：好事不出门，坏事传千里。不过说起来这位副总统也真够倒霉的，上一次媒体对他表现出如此高的热情，是因为他在不恰当的场合说了一句“Go fuck yourself!”。惹来一身臊不止，他还成了茶余饭后的笑料。

这次的误伤事件，我的感受可以用一句话来概括：The media is (are) having a field day with this! *Media是medium的复数，严格按语法规则的话，后面应该接are；不过在非学术的场合，几乎所有人都把media当成单数来使用（类似于 data），所以后面接is不算错。

来看看field day的定义：Informal A time of great pleasure, activity, or opportunity.

也就是说，如果某人对某事表现出极大的热情、将其逮住大作文章，那就是someone is having a field day with something。Someone绝大多数情况下是媒体，而something十有八九是糗事。词典里给的例句也清楚地证明了这一点：

Merriam Webster: The newspaper had a field day with the scandal. （报纸对丑闻大作文章。）
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: The media had a field day with the sensational story. （媒体对这桩轰动性的事件进行了大肆报道。）
Encarta World English Dictionary： If the slightest hint of this gets out, the press will have a field day. （如果这个消息走漏一丁点风声的话，传媒界可要热闹了。）

De facto is a Latin expression that means "in fact" or "in practice" but not spelled out by law. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure (which means "by law") when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or against a regulation. When discussing a legal situation, de jure designates lawfully what the law says, while de facto designates action of what happens in practice.

The term de facto may also be used when there is no relevant law or standard, but a common practice is well established, although perhaps not quite universal.

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听力要从段   句   上来理解
要多做阅读啊    有什么好的练习材料和方法吗？:confused: :confused:

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June 26


What would happen on earth if human beings just suddenly disappeared? It is an interesting (thought) experiment to do, and journalist Allan Wiseman has done it, and written up the result in a new book called “The world without us”. Part of the ideas for the book came from site that Wiseman visited, and that human beings have been indeed abandoned.  
“Chernobyl, I went there 7 years after the explosion. And among other things I reported how in the absence of human (being )  the villages around , the reactor that has been abandoned, how (the rest of)  nature was rushing in to fill the void. It was rather remarkable to go to (see the) one of the humanity’s greatest devastations, and see that the nature was kind of having a field day.
The Demilitarized Zone between two Koreas avoid of humans has also become de facto see the nature (preserve).  We will have an extensive (interview) with “the world without us” author on June 27th edition of science talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American.

field day
n.
-days
野外演习日
特别愉快的时刻
The newspapers will have a field day with this story!
报纸会因为这件新闻而获得意外成功

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zhenzhen_163 太强了，佩服。我也准备加入

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June 25, 2007:Pro Boxer's Punch Carries Heavy Weight

Back on our May Second episode, we talked about the brain damage suffered even by amateur boxers who wear headgears. Now imagine going into

the ring bare headed, against professional boxer, or a world champion in no less. Researchers at University of Manchester, England were curious just

about how much force a top boxer can generate with a punch. So they enlisted local boxer Ricky Hatton, an undefeated 28-year-old light welterweight

and welterweight world champ, and they had a 30-kilogram punch bag with sensors attached. (The) results should make any spectators who figure they

can last a while (on the ring with a ) pro think again, because Ricky Hatton, whose nickname is “the Hit man”, generated the force about 400 kilograms, while

average person with no boxing training can generate only about 1/10 that much force (with a) punch. Slow motion video found that Hatton can

typically generate punch speeds of 25 mile per hour, with one blow reaching 32 miles per hour. With that punch speed, you have about one tenth of

second to react.

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June 25, 2007: 60-Second Science


Back on our May Second episode, we talked about the brain damage suffered even by amateur boxers who wear headgears. Now imagine going into the ring bare headed, against professional boxer, or a world champion in no less. Researchers at University of Manchester, England were curious just about how much force a top boxer can generate with a punch. So they enlisted local boxer Ricky Hatton, an undefeated 28-year-old light welterweight and welterweight world champion, and they had a 30-kilogram punch bag with sensors attached. Results should make any spectators who figure they can last a while with a ring pro think again, because Ricky Hatton, whose nickname is “the Hit man”, generated force about 400 kilograms, while average person with no boxing training can generate only about 1/10 that much force per one punch. Slow motion video found that Hatton can typically generate punch speeds of 25 mile per hour, with one blow reaching 32 miles per hour. With that punch speed, you have about one tenth of second to react.

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原帖由 forerunner 于 2007-6-27 10:22 发表
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Great job! Thanks.   :)

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不知道自己有没有持久力啊

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June 27, 2007: 60-Second Science
Warm Crust Makes For Good Toast and Dry Land

Top down思维知识提示：

toasty warm
the coldest crustal rock in the continent
all blub blub blub
the Emerald City

我只说明一个："blub blub blub" 是个onomatopoeia，是物体下沉时冒泡的声音，指的是这些城市都要沉到海里了。看过卡通片里人物掉水里的滑稽情景吗？知道onomatopoeia这个词吗？这个词挺可爱的，多数美国人都懂，咱们也要会。

[ 本帖最后由 zhenzhen_163 于 2007-6-28 01:27 编辑 ]

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原帖由 forerunner 于 2007-6-27 10:28 发表
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听力要从段   句   上来理解
要多做阅读啊    有什么好的练习材料和方法吗？:confused: :confused:

You raised a very good question about reading. When I have time, I will share with you some helpful reading techniques...

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June 27, 2007: 60-Second Science
Warm Crust Makes For Good Toast and Dry Land
This week Scientists in University of Utah announced that if the earth's crust were not  so

toasty warm, most North America would be under sea.  Most people think that mountains

were made by the movement of the  tectonic plates. Those massive slaps at the land and

strikes the crust onto  the Earth's surface. True tectonic forces do build mountains. but

they do so in part by changing the temprature of the rocks they move. Hot rocks are less

dense and more buoyant. And the more buoyant as you are, the higher you float. The Utah

scientists used computer program to chill the Northern American crust to about 700 degrees

Fahrenheit. That's the temperature of the coldest crustal rock of the continent which covers

half of Cannada.Without the heat, North America sank. New York city drops ...

(?), Chicago, Los Vegas ... all blub blub blub. Interestingly, the adjustment cause Seatle to soar to

an elevation of nearly 2000 feet. That's because the Emerald  City has been a city of

crust colder than average. So tweaking the temprature makes that area warmer and

higher.Just something to keep in mind if you are looking to seek the high ground.

听到头晕，还是有好多问号，zhenzhen_163真强劲你说的几个我都没有听出来。

[ 本帖最后由 sureman 于 2007-6-27 16:08 编辑 ]

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Please read my post #724.

Your points 2 and 3 are plain wrong. Even if the announcer had read what you wrote, the competent listener would still know he meant what I wrote (a case of natural speech mistakes). The point is that if you do not have the necessary knowledge or the schemata, you can never be sure of what you have heard.

Your point 1 is grammatically correct; but is it worth discussing? Probably not! Interestingly, if you look up the definition of inflammation in a dictionary, it does include all those symptoms in the definition.

So hit the books if you want to polish your top down listening skills.  :)

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You're getting there, jiayou!  :)