讀超自然現(xiàn)象學(xué)英語

出版時(shí)間:2009-1  出版社:華東理工大學(xué)出版社  作者:奧黑根  頁數(shù):158  譯者:羅慕謙  

前言

  這個(gè)神秘的世界  我從小就對(duì)各種奇怪神秘的現(xiàn)象很有興趣。我那時(shí)候讀了很多這方面的書,也看了一些這方面的紀(jì)錄片。不過我跟很多人一樣,都覺得除非是自己親身遇到,否則這些怪事都只是傳聞,不算真的?! ∥易约菏窃?985年碰到了這樣的事,當(dāng)時(shí)我在西班牙馬德里教英文。有一天,我跟三個(gè)朋友去郊外的樹林里散步。那地方很有意思,是個(gè)有歷史的地方,留有很多1936到1939年西班牙內(nèi)戰(zhàn)期間建造的軍事坑道。我們看了幾個(gè)坑道后,往回走準(zhǔn)備去吃午餐。就在這個(gè)時(shí)候,奇怪的事情發(fā)生了?! ∥耶?dāng)時(shí)走在一個(gè)朋友旁邊,另外兩個(gè)朋友走在我們前面。我們走在樹林里,附近沒有房屋,也沒有任何其他的建筑物。突然間,我聽到一個(gè)聲音,就像是老房子破舊的門吱吱嘎嘎被慢慢推開的聲音。當(dāng)時(shí)樹林里有風(fēng),我第一個(gè)念頭是那是風(fēng)聲造成的特殊效果。不過走在我們前面的兩個(gè)朋友馬上就回過頭來,問我們是不是也聽到剛剛那個(gè)聲音。我跟他們說,我覺得那是風(fēng)聲,但是他們說,不對(duì),原因不是風(fēng)。他們接著告訴我,傳說那片樹林里常有成群的巫婆(巫術(shù)這類神秘的東西在當(dāng)時(shí)非常流行)聚在一起進(jìn)行各種古怪的儀式。而且其他走過那片樹林的人,也有過很奇特的經(jīng)歷。后來我再也沒去過這片樹林,因?yàn)閹讉€(gè)月后我就離開西班牙了,但是這段經(jīng)歷我一直沒忘?! ∵@些年來我聽到也讀到不少各式各樣的奇聞異事:幽浮、鬼魂、奇特的動(dòng)物、球狀閃電(現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)被許多科學(xué)家承認(rèn))、電人、蹈火等等?,F(xiàn)在我把其中一些收錄在本書里,算是為讀者提供一些娛樂和知識(shí)?! 〔贿^,把一堆故事收錄在一本書里,然后藉此驚嚇震撼讀者,卻不刺激讀者去思考,實(shí)在太容易了。我在這里嘗試以更中立的方式呈現(xiàn)這些在英語世界流傳已久的故事。我不希望讀者全盤接受,想也不想就相信這些故事?,F(xiàn)代人尤其應(yīng)該在讀了什么或聽了什么之后先思考一番。廣告、政客、宗教領(lǐng)袖等諸如此類的人,都希望我們不假思索就相信他們說的話。我們?cè)S多人也只想為復(fù)雜的問題找到一個(gè)簡單的答案,所以我們很容易聽到什么就相信什么。

內(nèi)容概要

  知道球狀閃電是怎么一回事嗎?為什么對(duì)于通古斯加事件做出的解釋似乎個(gè)個(gè)合理,卻沒有一個(gè)百分之百令人信服?人死亡后為什么會(huì)有自燃現(xiàn)象?……好好享受本書搜羅的奇聞異事吧,它將讓你在享受的同時(shí),輕松學(xué)會(huì)英語知識(shí)。  《讀超自然現(xiàn)象學(xué)英語》精選出世界上十二種超自然現(xiàn)象,介紹這些神秘事件背后的起因、發(fā)生經(jīng)過、過程中令人百思不解的謎團(tuán),和它們帶給世人的震撼及影響。每個(gè)單元分三大部分,包括文章閱讀、會(huì)話模擬,和測驗(yàn)練習(xí)。書中精心設(shè)計(jì)出各種英語學(xué)習(xí)的單元,是兼具知性與趣味的絕佳英語閱讀材料!

書籍目錄

Unit 1 Spontaneous Human Combustion人體自燃現(xiàn)象PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 2 Strange Rain怪雨P(guān)assageQuestionsConversationUnit 3 Crop Circles麥田圈PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 4 Animal Mutilations動(dòng)物肢解PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 5 The Moving Coffins of Barbados巴巴多斯棺材大挪移PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 6 Human Batteries and Magnets電人與磁人PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 7 The Tunguska Incident通古斯加事件PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 8 Curses and Bad Luck詛咒與厄運(yùn)PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 9 Spring-Heeled Jack彈簧腿杰克PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 10 BaIl Lightning球狀閃電PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 11 The Aliens Are Coming—or Are They?外星人來了!是嗎?PassageQuestionsConversationUnit 12 The Loch Ness Monster尼斯湖水怪PassageQuestionsConversation附錄 文章譯文與解答

章節(jié)摘錄

  Unit1 Spontaneous Human Combustion  Passage 1  On December 5, 1966 a man named Don Gosnell went down into the basement of an apartment building to read a gas meter1. While he was there, he smelt a strange odor and noticed some blue smoke hanging in the air. He thought he should go to find Dr Bentley, a retired doctor who lived in one of the apartments.  In the bedroom Gosnell found more blue smoke and then, when he glanced into the bathroom he saw a horrific2 sight. There, beside a metal walking frame, was a hole in the floor of the bathroom. It looked as if there had been a fire that had burned through the floor. But the horrible thing was that there was a part of a burnt human leg beside the hole!  Throughout the last 400 years or so, in many parts of the world, people have reported finding the remains of people whose bodies have been almost completely burned up. How it is possible to do this without using a large amount of fuel —— such as in a cremation- is difficult to explain.  But there are other even stranger parts of the mystery. Usually, there is very little damage to anything beyond a few feet from the remains of the victim. Yet surely to burn a body requires high temperatures which should burn the entire building down.  Sometimes, as in the case of the retired physician mentioned above, it has been suggested that the victim was a careless smoker. At other times, it has been argued that the person was a drinker who got drunk, fell asleep by the fire and then the clothes caught alight7.

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