Unit 1 Great scientists
I. Phrases
1. put forward 提出
2. draw a conclusion 得出结论
3. be/get under control 在……控制下
be/get out of control失去控制，不能操纵
4. be absorbed in 专心
5. be to blame 应该受责备（用主动形式表示被动）
blame sb. for sth. 因某事责备某人
6. in addition 也，另外，此外
7. link...to... 将…和…连接或联系起来
8. die of 因…而死亡（内因）
die from 因…而死亡（外因）
9. lead to 导致，通向
10. make sense 有意义，说得通
11. apart from 除…之外，此外
12. contribute to 为…作贡献或捐款，导致，有助于
13. be enthusiastic about 对…热情
14. be curious about 对…好奇
15. cure sb. of illness 治好某人…病
16. point of view 态度，观点，看法
17.（be）strict with sb. 对某人要求严格
II. Sentences
1. John Snow was a well-known doctor in London – so famous, indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria to ease the birth of her babies.
约翰·斯诺曾经是伦敦一位著名的医生——他的确太负盛名了，所以维多利亚女皇生孩子时都是他去照料，帮助她顺利分娩。
2. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera.
但当他一想到要帮助患病的普通老百姓，特别是那些得了霍乱的患者时，他就感到很振奋。
3. Neither its cause, nor its cure was understood.
人们既不知道它的病源，也不了解它的治疗方法。
4. He knew it would never be controlled until its cause was found.
他知道，在找到病源之前，疫情是无法控制的。
5. He got interested in two theories explaining how cholera killed people.
霍乱之所以能致人于死，当时有两种看法，斯诺对这两种推测都很感兴趣。
6. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals.
第二种看法是在吃饭的时候人们把这种病毒引入体内的。
7. He believed in the second theory but needed to prove he was correct.
他相信第二种说法，但是需要证明他是正确的。
8. It seemed that the water was to blame.
看来要归罪于饮用水了。
9. Immediately John Snow told the astonished people in Broad Street to remove the handle from the water pump so it could not be used.
约翰·斯诺马上叫宽街上惊惶失措的老百姓拆掉水泵的把手，这样水泵就用不成了。
10. Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense.
只有当你把太阳放在中心位置上，天空中其它行星的运动才能说得清楚。
11. But only his new theory could do that.
看是只有他的新理论才能作出解释。
12. Yet Copernicus’ theory is now the base on which all our ideas of the universe are built.
然而哥白尼的理论却是我们宇宙赖以建立的基础。
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