Day 58:
Prosanta Chakrabarty: Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
六分钟了解四十亿年的地球进化史 | TED演讲_腾讯视频
今天主要关注三个维度中的第一个维度,语言提高,我以和线的形式highlight语言提高部分。
点(词汇)
收集了一些自己不认识/不常用的词汇,在以后的表达中可以有意识的去应用。
hardwired [ˌhɑːdˈwaɪəd] adj.
1. (Electronics & Computer Science/Computer Science) (of a circuit or instruction) permanently wired into a computer, replacing separate software
2. (Psychology) (of human behaviour) innate; not learned humans have a hard-wired ability for acquiring language
convoluted ['kɒnvəluːtɪd] adj.
1 rolled longitudinally upon itself;
2 highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
hubris ['hjuːbrɪs] n.
overbearing pride or presumption
线(句子)
收集了一些自己很喜欢或者很受启发的句子,在以后表达中可以有意识的应用,增加表达的色彩和亮点。
- Evolution is a fact as much as the "theory of gravity."
- Misunderstanding it has led to many convoluted and corrupted views of how we should treat other life on earth, and how we should treat each other in terms of race and gender.
- As life evolves, it also goes extinct
- Think of us all as young leaves on this ancient and gigantic tree of life, all of us connected by invisible branches not just to each other, but to our extinct relatives and our evolutionary ancestors
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