【万物简史】PART II CH 4事物的测定（2）_英语听力练习mp3下载-科学-沪江听力酷

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【万物简史】PART II CH 4事物的测定（2）

听力简介：

法兰西民族富有浪漫的艺术感，科学造诣也很深，但是这个民族经历总是很波折纠结。英国天文学家哈雷也太多才多艺了啊，有木有啊~~~

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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据上下文注意各句标号，这样有助于提高正确率。

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La Condamine
Lima
Andean

[---1---] Eventually he and Bouguer stopped speaking and refused to work together. Everywhere the dwindling party went it was met with the deepest [-2-]from officials who found it difficult to believe that a group of French scientists would travel halfway around the world to measure the world. That made no sense at all. Two and a half centuries later it still seems a reasonable question. [---3---]

The answer lies partly with the fact that 18th-century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an [-4-]demanding alternative was available, and partly with a practical problem that had first [-5-] the English astronomer Edmond Halley many years before—long before Bouguer and La Condamine dreamed of going to South America, much less had a reason for doing so.

Halley was an exceptional figure. In the course of a long and productive career, he was a sea captain, a cartographer, a professor of geometry at the University of Oxford, [-6-]controller of the Royal Mint, astronomer royal, and inventor of the deep-sea diving bell. He wrote authoritatively on magnetism, tides, and the motions of the planets, and [-7-]on the effects of opium. He invented the weather map and actuarial table, proposed methods for working out the age of the Earth and its distance from the Sun, even devised a practical method for keeping fish fresh out of season. [---8---] He merely recognized that the comet he saw in 1682 was the same one that had been seen by others in 1456, 1531, and 1607. It didn't become Halley's comet until 1758, some 16 years after his death.