DAY 1：

1.perpetual：continuing all the time

Eg:Many people live in perpetual fear of losing their jobs.

形近词：

perpetuate：to make something such as a situation or process continue,especially one that is wrong,unfair,or dangerous

Eg:Current policy only serves to perpetuate the old class divisons.

短语：

in perpetutiy:for all time in the future

Eg:This property is to be held by the trust in perpetuity.

2.empirical:based on real experience or scientific experiments rather than on theory

短语：

empirical evidence/knowledge/research

3.test:to try using something to find out whether it works correctly or is satisfacotry

Eg:The theory will be tested by computer simulat.

短语：

test something on something

Eg:a skin-care system that isn't tested on anmials.

4.speculative:1.based on guesses or on a little information,not on facts

Eg:Scientists dismiss suggestions that the substance is toxic as highly speculative.

2.done in order to make a big profit, but with a high risk that money will be lost

Eg:speculative currency trading

5.particle:an extremely small piece or amount of somehing

Eg:There's not a particle of evidence to support his story.

6.foil   n.:very light thin sheets of metal used for wrapping things,especially food

Eg:Wrap the cheese in foil to keep it moist

V:to prevent someone from doing something that they are trying to do

Eg:The escape attempt was foiled by wardens firing in the air.

形近词：

toil:to work very hard doing something difficult and tiring,especially physical work.

Eg:Farm labourers have to toil in the fields all day.

短语：

toil and moil=work hard

wax and wane=change

7.artillery:large powerful guns that are used by an army and are moved on wheels or fixed in one place

Eg:All of artilleries points to the southern.

8.compel:to force someon to do something,or to get something from someone using force

Eg:The order compelled him to appear as a winess.

9.progression:gradual change or development

Eg:The drug can slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease

10.apparatus:the machines,tools,and equipment needed for doing something,especially something technical or scientific

Eg:They were setting up the apparatus for the experiment.

11.eclipse:1.to make the sun or moon become partly or completely dark because of the position of the sun,moon,and earth in relation to each other.

2.to make someone or something seem less successful or important,by becoming more successful or important than they are.

Eg:This tragic accident has eclipsed the two disasters on the railways last year.

12.volcanic:1.coming from or connected with a volcano

Eg:volcanic activity

2.a volcanic feeling is very strong,sudden,and uncontrolled

Eg:He had a volcanic temper.

13.alchemy:a typeof science that people used to try to change ordinary metals into gold,especially in the Middle Ages.

Eg:In the Middle Ages,alchemy was very popluar.

14.distil:to produce a summary that contains only the most important ideas or pieces of informantion

Eg:The notes I made on my travels were distilled in to a book.

同义词：

extract,condense,purify,refine

15.monopoly:complete control over something by one organization or person.

Eg:The company has a virtual monopoly on tea sales.

16.dissect:to study sth closely and/or discuss it in great detail

Eg:Your enjoyment of a novel can suffer from too much analysis and dissection.

17.corpse:a dead body,especially of a human

Eg:There is a corpse on the floor.

18exquisite:delicate and sensitive

Eg:The room was decorated in exquisite taste.

19.inheritance:the money;property;ect that you receive from sb when they die

Eg:She spent all her inheritance in year.

20.mammal:any animals that gives birth to live babies,not eggs,and feeds its young on milk.

Eg:Cows,humans and whales are all mammals

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DAY 2:

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DAY 3:

  这三天都是针对《The science book-big ideas》中首章节选部分来进行分析，由于这一本科普读物，文章通俗易懂，并没有出现一些佶屈聱牙的专业名词如：脱氧核糖核酸之类的。文科生表示看到这些名词简直是如临大敌。

  以前上自然课之类理科性的课程，当老师讲到一些比较有趣的历史或者是历史中的新发现：牛顿在苹果树下被苹果砸到发现了万有引力；阿基米德在洗澡的时候发现水往外溢出从而确立了浮力定理；达尔文在随船队来到加拉帕戈斯群岛进行考察时，发现了不同岛屿上的加拉帕戈斯象龟在外型上的不同，从而大胆猜测物种会随着环境的变化而产生变化等等时，我都会很认真地去听老师讲的每一个字。但当我真正去面对那些枯燥乏味的公式的时候，我真的是提不起半分的兴趣。可我对于自然的探索并不会止步在可怕的公式面前，因为我认为科学就在我们的周围，我尤其喜欢的是自然科学以及天文。

  我的第一本自然科学启蒙书就是《昆虫记》，我还记得其中有许多昆虫的配图，为了验证书中的图片的真实性，我去捉蚱蜢，掏蚂蚁窝，粘知了。每当夜幕降临的时候，我也会试着在春季夜空中寻找北斗七星，并尝试着拼出大熊星座的样子。那一段童年时光我过得很充实，也很开心。

  现在我依然也会像小时候那样保持着对自然的热爱，我会到网上观看和自然有关的纪录片，试着去记住一些生物方面的知识。我正在尝试着克服内心对于理科学科的恐惧，不仅因为理科知识能够让我更加系统地了解周围的一切，而且它还能够培养的我的逻辑思维。至少不会因为一些谣言而失去对事物本身的判断。

   感谢自己一直以来保持着对自然的初心以及对生命的敬畏。