1.Ongoing: adj,current happening .
E.g. If something is ongoing, it is currently in action.
Synonyms: on-going , current
2. Perpetual: adj, continuing forever or indefinitely
E.g. If you're a perpetual proscrastingator, your dilly-dallying ways are never going to improve . 如果你是一贯拖拉的人，你磨蹭的方式永远无法被改进。
3.Curiosity: n, a state in which you want to learn more about thinking something
Synonyms: wondering.
E.g. If you find a diary in a coffee shop, curiosity will make you want to look inside.
4.Asserted:V, declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
The verbassertcan be used for both opinions and for oneself. When asked, you can politely assert your desire to go to the amusement park for your birthday.
5.Disprove:V. prove to be false. When youdisprovesomething, you argue against it or give evidence that it's not true. E.g.The physicistdisprovedhis colleagues' theories.
Synonyms: confute
6. peer review :V. evaluate professionally a colleague's work 同行评审
E.g. This is done by the brutal system of peer review,which has its flaws.这一切要由残酷的同业互查系统来做，而它有自己的缺陷
Synonyms: referee
7. comet: N. A comet is a small, icy object that orbits the sun and has a long "tail" of gas.
Comets are made of ice, dust, and tiny pieces of rock, but to people on Earth, they look like streaks or smudges across the night sky.
8. speculative: Adj.not based on fact or investigation . 推测性的。
Anything speculative is based on prediction: whatever it is hasn't happened yet.
9.Astonishment: N. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprisingis what you feel when you're extremely surprised.
Astonishmentis what you feel when you're extremely surprised.令人惊讶的事物
Synonyms :amazement .
10.artillery : I: large but transportable armament II: a means of persuading or arguing . In the artical be mentioned "It was an as though an artillery shell has bounced back off the tissure paper" 炮弹
11. compelling: adj. 1.driving or forcing 2. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument .Compellingmeans attractive, or irresistible, or really, really convincing.
E.g.We have compelling reasons for doing so.
12: apparatus : n.equipment designed to serve a specific function; a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function .
Your apparatus is the collective equipment you use for specific purposes.
E.g.We require the agency in our market for your precision apparatus.
13.eclipse :n. one celestial body obscures another v.cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; E.g.The sun eclipse the moon today. v.be greater in significance than
14. crater : n. a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano
Acrateris a roundish dent left in the surface of something by the impact of something else.
E.g. Look at your divot hole, too—you want long and shallow, not a bomb crater.
15. astrolabe: n.Anastrolabeis an ancient instrument used for estimating the altitude and predicting the position of celestial objects, such as the moon, other planets, and stars.
16.rediscover: v.discover again E.g. I rediscoverd the books that I enjoyed as a child.
17.monopoly :n.exclusive control or possession of something Amonopolyis the exclusive ownership or control of something.
18. groundbreaking ：adj.being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before E.g.Officials will hold agroundbreakingceremony at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
19.illustration.n. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand. E.g.During the 1950s, Warhol used this blotting technique to draw, among other things, whimsicalillustrationsof shoes.
20.flea :A flea is a tiny biting insect that's especially common on dogs. E.g. Oddly, human vectors are never implicated, only the rats and fleas.
After reading this article through more than 1hours, I feel like to review and recall all the common science knowledge from my middle school . Fortunately, I didn't choose to be a science student when I was facing such choice as everyone met in 11th grade. Or else, I must be much failure than now . Even though I once get two A during the unified examination for the subjects of physical and Chemistry , I can't wake up the self interesting for them. On the contrary, I prefer to liberary and history, such subjects. However, I have to admit, it's a great subject for science, we gained the present development as today's, which certainly is the result of science achievement. I admire those science gaint through out history, either respect those scientists working today.
It's hard for me to understand this article totally, not only the obsure theme but also plenty of strange words. You must can't imagine, there're over 100 strange words for me. LOL.
Besides to check their meaning with english explanation instead of chinese translation, I specially thanks for the mind mapping be asked ,unexpectedly I start to know what it's talking about for each paragraph after finishing it. At least, I think I understand it nearly 90% .
This article listed all the memoreable events during history of science progress. From the early ancient to the modern science, from Aristotle to Einstein. I recognized he is a scientist but not only a philosophers for Aristotle today. You can see every giant who promoted human progress be mentioned here. I believe that, people like a child in the ancient, they earned to know the world they live around. Curiosity is the basis for each behavior be driven to achive or not.
Standing the points of today, we of course have to say lots of thanks to them, even it's not enough or too slight words . As a human, we relied on the science so much that we can't live without it. Appearently, every progress of science always help people to know the world and how to use the resource around us, finally help us to get a much better life.
I recommend this article to anyone who are interest in science and how the human get such progress today . There're so much flashy sentences in it. Please allow me to quote here:
"Driven by curiosity, it has relied on reasoning,observation, and experiment.(it means science）”
"While it may seem obvious today that a good scientist must rely on empirical evidence, this was not always apparent"
"If the experiment produces the predicted result, the scientist then has supporting evidence for the theory. Even so, science can never prove that a theory is correct, at......Karl Popper pointed out, it can only disprove things."
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered ; the point is to discover them "--which is out of Galileo Galilei. I love it so much !
Finally, after this article,which reminds me of a popular video found on line, it puts forward a hypothesis: "what will be the earth if there's no human " . This vedio show a series of scenes with the changes of earth once the human disappeared , from several month to thousands of years, even more longer. We can tell that the earth will turn to be much more beautiful and spectacular , if human don't exsit anymore. So that's mean, we're nothing for the earth to some extent. But the truth is that we need earth to live , we need sicence to get better. For earth itself, it can stay well even though there're no science. So I would rather they say "save ourselves" instead of "save earth" for some slogan of environment.