李观仪新编英语教程第五册unit 8 why nothing works
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• 1. savant (l.1)--- a man of learning, especially a person with detailed knowledge in some specialized field专家
• synonym: initiate, learned person, pundit
• 2. corolቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱary (l.2)---an immediate inference from a proved proposition推论
• Neither of them know about it, and the corollary of that is that someone else revealed the secret.
• Additional forms of Murphy’s Law include: • To know yourself is the ultimate aggression • Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. • If you’re feeling good, don’t worry, you’ll soon
Unit 8
Why Nothing Works
by Marvin Harris
Maggie Yuan
About the title
The title: Why--- causes
•
Nothing works----effects （functions)
• The meaning of the title: What causes things to go
• Most scientists regard it as silly nonsense. But one who doesn't is Robert Matthews. Since the mid1990s, he has discovered that many cases of Murphy's Law really can be explained by serious scientific principles.
• From 1980 until 2000, he held a graduate research professorship at the University of Florida.
Murphy’s Law
• Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture, which roughly states that things will go wrong in a technical system. It is often roughly stated as "if anything can go wrong, it will", though this is in fact Finagle's law.
• 他们两人并不知道这回事，因此一定是另外有 人泄露了秘密
• 3. forestall (l.7)
• 词形变化:名词:forestaller 动词过去式:forestalled 过去分 词:forestalled 现在分词:forestalling 第三人称单数:forestalls 例句与用法:
wrong so quickly and easily?
Marvin Harris (1927 - 2001)
• Dr. Harris, who called his approach "cultural materialism," was an anthropology professor at Columbia University from 1953 until 1980, including three years as department chairman.
Murphy’s Law
• Murphy's Law has been blamed for a host of everyday annoyances, from why our queue in the supermarket is so often the slowest-moving, to why it usually rains when we decide to leave our umbrella at home.
• The original Murphy's law reads: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
• Some possible causes of an object's failure to work: mishandling, overuse, faulty parts, faulty workmanship, fake product, inferior quality
Dictionary work
get over it. • A short cut is the longest distance between two
points. • The other line always moves faster. • All warranties expire up on payment of invoice. • You will always find something in the last place
you look.
Pre-reading questions
• Have you got anything, say, a fountain pen, a MP3, or a cellphone, which goes out of order or fails to work? Do you ever ask why it doesn’t work? What are the possible causes?
• synonym: initiate, learned person, pundit
• 2. corolቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱary (l.2)---an immediate inference from a proved proposition推论
• Neither of them know about it, and the corollary of that is that someone else revealed the secret.
• Additional forms of Murphy’s Law include: • To know yourself is the ultimate aggression • Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. • If you’re feeling good, don’t worry, you’ll soon
Unit 8
Why Nothing Works
by Marvin Harris
Maggie Yuan
About the title
The title: Why--- causes
•
Nothing works----effects （functions)
• The meaning of the title: What causes things to go
• Most scientists regard it as silly nonsense. But one who doesn't is Robert Matthews. Since the mid1990s, he has discovered that many cases of Murphy's Law really can be explained by serious scientific principles.
• From 1980 until 2000, he held a graduate research professorship at the University of Florida.
Murphy’s Law
• Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture, which roughly states that things will go wrong in a technical system. It is often roughly stated as "if anything can go wrong, it will", though this is in fact Finagle's law.
• 他们两人并不知道这回事，因此一定是另外有 人泄露了秘密
• 3. forestall (l.7)
• 词形变化:名词:forestaller 动词过去式:forestalled 过去分 词:forestalled 现在分词:forestalling 第三人称单数:forestalls 例句与用法:
wrong so quickly and easily?
Marvin Harris (1927 - 2001)
• Dr. Harris, who called his approach "cultural materialism," was an anthropology professor at Columbia University from 1953 until 1980, including three years as department chairman.
Murphy’s Law
• Murphy's Law has been blamed for a host of everyday annoyances, from why our queue in the supermarket is so often the slowest-moving, to why it usually rains when we decide to leave our umbrella at home.
• The original Murphy's law reads: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
• Some possible causes of an object's failure to work: mishandling, overuse, faulty parts, faulty workmanship, fake product, inferior quality
Dictionary work
get over it. • A short cut is the longest distance between two
points. • The other line always moves faster. • All warranties expire up on payment of invoice. • You will always find something in the last place
you look.
Pre-reading questions
• Have you got anything, say, a fountain pen, a MP3, or a cellphone, which goes out of order or fails to work? Do you ever ask why it doesn’t work? What are the possible causes?