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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 2,The Future of Science Is Art?,Contents,1.About the author,Background of the Text:1).2).,3.Questions,Word Distinctions,Oral Translation 1).2).,Written Translation 1).2).3).,Further questions for discussion,About the author,Jonah Lehrer,is editor at large for Seed magazine.A graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes scholar,Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and in the kitchens of Le Cirque 2000 and Le Bernardin.He has written for the Boston Globe,Nature,NPR,and NOVA ScienceNow,and writes a highly regarded blog,The Frontal Cortex.,Jonah Lehrer,1.Background of the Text,Science and art naturally overlap.Both are a means of investigation.Both involve ideas,theories,and hypotheses that are tested in places where mind and hand come togetherthe laboratory and studio.Artists,like scientists,studymaterials,people,culture,history,religion,mythology and learn to transform information into something else.In ancient Greece,the word for art was,techne,from which,technique,and,technology,are derivedterms that are aptly applied to both scientific and artistic practices.,There has long been a connection between art and science,one that can be traced back to the Egyptian pyramids.History proves that the two disciplines cannot exist without each other,enduring in constantly changing and evolving relationships.,1.Questions,1.How do you understand the classical model of art?,2.Why did Bohr think that science needed a new metaphor?,3.Why does the author say that it is hard to believe that a work of abstract art might have actually affected the history of science?,4.Why are scientists openly wondering if we are incapable of figuring out the cosmos?,5.How do you understand Eschers painting,Relativity,?What does it expose to us?,2.Questions,6.Why does the author say that the history of physics is littered with metaphorical leaps?,7.What function does metaphor in science perform?Why does the author say that relying on metaphor can also be dangerous?,8.Why does modern physics need the arts for help?,9.In what other ways can artists bring something to the cosmic conversation?,10.What can we do to bring the dialogue between science and art in order to come,Word Distinctions,1)reconcile with,reconcile to,I cant _ these figures _ the statement you prepared.,Could you _ a lifetime of unemployment?,She could never _ his violent temper _ his pacifist ideals.,We watch the character as he tries to _ the idea of his own death.,After 20 years of silence,he was finally _ his family.,The struggle to _ personal fulfillment _ familial obligation is common in this generation of immigrant daughters.,2identify,identify with,I found it hard to _ any of the characters in the film.,Could you _ your umbrella among a hundred others?,They，in turn，are loyal and _ the companys goals.,So some schools are using response to intervention as a way to_ problems much earlier.,We must then _ our dreams and establish financial goals so we can turn our dreams into reality.,Having read The Tales of Two Cities,we _ the main characters struggle.,1.Oral Translation,Put the following Chinese expressions into English,1)物质结构,2)量子物理学,3)科学想象,4)原子的内部空间,5)解释对艺术的理解,6)古典模式,7)科学隐喻,8)加速科学进程,2.Oral Translation,Put the following Chinese sentences into English,1)任何与上古神话传说有关的东西都会使我着迷。(fascinate),2)由于这些困难，有些妇女选择接受现实，而这可能会推动未来更严重的家庭暴力。reconcile,3)日本是世界上最易发生地震的国家,，每年经历数以千计的小地震。prone,4)他们的设计绝大局部符合实际需要和有关环境要求的条例。(correspond to),5)为找到一份适宜的工作,有些大学毕业生求教于就业参谋(指导).resort to,6)他退休的前一天正好将是他执教满40年的日子，这真是奇妙的巧合。(coincidence),7)亨利无意干预我所负责的领域，但他觉得他必须指出我的报告中的一两处疏漏。(trespass on),8)更重要的是要花时间给您的家人或给自己，而不是只关注整理家务。fixate on,1.Written Translation,Put the following Chinese paragraph into English:,爱波爱伯斯费尔塔(Eiblbibesfeldt)说：“艺术探索人的情感的深度，进而主要是表达信念和其他价值，而科学的目的是传达客观知识。这似乎是艺术与科学的根本差异。科学与艺术的根本出发点的不同，导致了科学与艺术对客体的根本态度和方式的不同。概括地讲，科学是以数学原理为根底，以抽象简化的方式描述对自然对象的认识，数学公式是它给予自然的最终图像；艺术是以生命情感原理为根底，以具体感性的方式表达对自然对象的感受，艺术形象是它给予自然的主要表象。,2.Written Translation,Put the following quotes into Chinese:,True science teaches,above all,to doubt and be ignorant.Miguel de Unamuno,Truth has no special time of its own.Its hour is now always.A.Schweitzer,That is the essence of science:ask an impertinent question,and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.Jacob Bronowski,Love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.W.A.Peterson,I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man.I dont know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world.Thomas Edison,3.Written Translation,Translate the following passage into Chinese.,But putting parab1es aside,I am unable to understand how any one with a knowledge of mankind can imagine that the growth of science can threaten the development of art in any of its forms.If I understand the matter at all,science and art are the obverse and reverse of Natures medal;the one expressing the eternal order of things,in 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