Lan的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

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[Day 1783 2019-08-14]

Lesson 32-3 Galileo reborn 伽利略的复生

But can we blame those who looked and failed to see what Galileo saw, if we

remember that to use a telescope at the limit of its powers calls for long experience and

intimate familiarity with one's instrument? Was the philosopher who refused to look

through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae

observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left

by the grinder? We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were

produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before,

curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

and if a single curved glass would distort nature, how much more would a pair of them?

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知识笔记：

at the limit of its powers    在其权力范围内

calls for    网络 需要; 要求;

intimate    adj. 亲密的; 密切的; 个人隐私的(常指性方面的); 宜于密切关系的; 温馨的; 便于有性关系的;

v. 透露; (间接) 表示; 暗示;

n. 密友; 至交; 知己;

familiarity    n. 熟悉; 通晓; 认识; 友好随和; 亲近;

culpable    adj. 应受责备的; 难辞其咎的;

alleged    adj. 宣称的; 据传闻的; 涉嫌的;    v. (未提出证据) 断言，指称，声称;

spiral    adj. 宣称的; 据传闻的; 涉嫌的;    v. (未提出证据) 断言，指称，声称;

nebulae    n. 星云; 外观似星云的星系;

scratches    n. (皮肤或物体表面上的) 划痕，划伤; 刮(或擦、抓)的刺耳声; 挠痒; 搔痒;

v. 挠，搔(痒处); 划破，抓破，划伤，抓伤(皮肤); (尤指意外地) 擦破，划损，刮坏;

grinder    n. 碾磨器械; 磨刀匠; 磨工; 磨床;

spyglass    n. 小型望远镜;

contrivance    n. 非自然之物; 人工产物; 矫揉造作; 精巧(或复杂)的装置; 专用工具; 计谋; 圈套; 计谋的(或圈套的)采用;

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