[094]of men and galaxies(3)

[Day 714 2016-09-09] Lesson 45-3 Of men and galaxies

Indeed, the concept of free speech only exists in our modern society because when you are inside a community, you are conditioned by the conventions of the community to such a degree that it is very difficult to conceive of anything really destructive. It is only someone looking on from outside that can inject the dangerous thoughts. I do not doubt that it would be possible to inject ideas into the modern world that would utterly destroy us. I would like to give you an example, but fortunately I cannot do so. Perhaps it will suffice to mention the nuclear bomb. Imagine the effect on a reasonably advanced technological society, one that still does not possess the bomb, of making it aware of the possibility, of supplying sufficient details to enable the thing to be constructed.

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生詞：

1.conceive(v)持有、懷孕

ex.Five month ago Wendy conceived.

2.someone looking on from outside 局外人

3.suffice(v.)有能力滿足

Two examples can suffice to prove the contention

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問題回答

a.課文涉及哪些訊息？

思想傳播的限制、核彈的例子

b.表達啥意思？

在局內者，往往會被環境所約束;但局外人可比較不被束縛，能灌輸不一樣的思想

c.哪些詞讓我印象深刻？

someone looking on from outside 局外人

it’s difficult to conceive of anything really constructive

d.我可以積累啥半成品？

to such a degree that ….

suffice to support your oversea study