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2015考研英语复习正是强化复习阶段,考研英语阅读在考研英语中占了40分,所以考研英语阅读是英语科目中重要的一项。新东方名师范猛老师曾建议过考研生需要坚持每天泛读10-15分钟的英文原刊。强烈推荐了杂志《经济学人》.杂志中的文章也是考研英语的主要材料来源.希望考研考生认真阅读,快速提高考研英语阅读水平。
A fishy tale
小小鱼尾,几掀狂澜
This engraving, of a flying fish, almost changed the course of history. It is one of a set fromJohn Ray's and Francis Willughby's book "Historia Piscium", published in 1686 by the RoyalSociety and recently put online by them for the edification of scholars everywhere. Thesociety, which today proudly describes itself as the world's oldest scientific academy (it wasfounded in 1660), was almost bankrupted by the expense of the high-quality illustrations inwhat was regarded at the time as a leading natural-history text, but which unfortunatelyfailed to sell as well as its publishers had hoped. As a result, no money was left over foranother publication, "Principia Mathematica", by Isaac Newton. That the most importantvolume in the history of physics, which described the laws of motion and of gravity, saw thelight of day the next year was, in the end, due to the deep pockets of Edmund Halley, ofcomet fame. Halley was the son of a wealthy soapmaker and he stumped up much of thecost himself.
这幅飞鱼雕版画几乎转变了历史进程。它是约翰·雷(John Ray)和弗朗西斯·维鲁格比(FrancisWillughby)的著述《鱼类溯源》中的组图之一,该书于1686年由英国皇家学会出版,并于近日上传到互联网,以飨五州学者。英国皇家学会始创于1660年,如今自豪地称自己为世界上最古老的科学学会。然而当时,它却几乎面临破产,就是原因上述高质量的插图(当时被认定为顶尖的自然历史文本)耗资甚巨,学会认为插图文本会畅销,而不幸地是,事实证明并非如此。结果,对于另一鸿篇巨著—牛顿的《自然哲学的数学原理》,学会只能爱莫能助了。《自然哲学的数学原理》是一本物理学史上首屈一指的鸿篇巨制,一部描述运动规律和万有引力的鸿篇巨著。为此,艾德蒙德·哈雷(Edmund Halley)给予了鼎力资助,次年这一巨著终于呈现在世人面前。艾德蒙德·哈雷本人因发现哈雷彗星而名垂青史。他是富有的肥皂生产商的儿子,捐助了大部分出版费用。
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