出版時間:2001-8 出版社:科學出版社 作者:張文芝 編 頁數(shù):227
內(nèi)容概要
本書屬于教育部立項的“普通高等教育‘九五’國家級重點教材”,同時還被列為“中國科學院研究生教學叢書”?!恫┦垦芯可⒄Z精讀(修訂版)》由中國科學院研究生院外語教學部的資深教授根據(jù)多年的教學經(jīng)驗編寫而成,是幾代教師辛勤努力的結(jié)晶。書中所選文章的內(nèi)容具有一定的思想和理論深度,突出了科學與社會這一主題,旨在激發(fā)學生對一些深層次問題的思考,從而全面提高英語的語言和文化修養(yǎng)?!恫┦垦芯可⒄Z精讀(修訂版)》適合于非英語專業(yè)博士研究生學位英語教學,也可作為高等院校各專業(yè)研究生及科研人員提高英語技能的參考用書。
書籍目錄
THE PARADOX OF KNOWLEDGE
MODULAR MAN
THE WEST UNIQUE, NOT UNIVERSAL
SCIENTIFIC FACTS: COMPATIBLE WITH CHRISTIAN FAITH?
SCIENCE, LIES AND THE ULTIMATE TRUTH
HOW CAN I TELL IF I AM CUT OUT TO BE A RESEARCH WORKER?
DRINKING HEMLOCK AND OTHER NUTRITIONAL MATTERS
THE VIRTUES OF AMBITION
THE LONG HABIT
THE TWO CULTURES
LIFE IN THE TUBE
THE ENEMIES YOU DESERVE
GLOSSARY INDEX
章節(jié)摘錄
We may be about to rediscover that dying is not such a badthing to do after all. Sir William Osier took this view; hedisapproved of people who spoke of the agony of death,maintaining that there was no such thing. In a 19th-century memoir about an expedition in Africa, there isa story about an explorer who was caught by a lion, crushed acrossthe chest in the animal's great jaws, and saved in the instant by alucky shot from a friend. Later, he remembered the episode in cleardetail. He was so amazed by the extraordinary sense of peace andcalm, and total painlessness, associated with his partial experienceof being killed, that he constructed a theory that all creatures areprovided with a protective physiologic mechanism, switched on atthe verge of death, carrying them through in a haze of tranquility. I have seen agony in death only once, in a patient with rabies,who remained acutely aware of every state in the process of hisown disintegration over a 24-hour period, right up to his finalmoment. It was as though, in the special neuropathology of rabies,the switch had been prevented from turning. We will be having new opportunities to learn more about thephysiology of death at first hand, from the increasing numbers ofcardiac patients who have been through the whole process and thenback again. ……
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