The Preface

When I became a freshman student of the Department of Electrical Engineering, I was deeply troubled by having to read English textbooks. The calculus textbook was not too troublesome because every page was filled with formulas. I tried to ignore the proofs and was successful in passing the examinations. There was a Chinese translation version of the physics textbook and the University Library had a large number of these Chinese version books. We all stormed to the library to borrow them. Yet chemistry was a great headache to me. There were so many English words which I had never seen before. I clearly remember that, to me, there were totally around twenty new English words in the first page. After I spent a lot of time searching through the dictionary, I had no energy to understand what this page was talking about.

I was supposed to be very good in English in high school. Yet I had trouble in reading college English textbooks. If we read our high school English textbooks, we will notice these books do not involve science. No wonder, for those students who want to major in science and technology, it is hard to read college science textbooks.

This book offers sixty short English articles on biology, chemistry and physics. Each article is coupled with a Chinese translation. This book is by no means a science textbook. High school students may casually read this book. By the time to get into college, they will find out that they are not totally unfamiliar with scientific terms. We deliberately chose the subjects in science which are of high school level. You cannot find subjects related to quantum physics, for instance, in this book.

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當我成為電機工程學系的大一新生時，我對於讀原文教科書這件事極其困擾。微積分的教科書不是很難，因為每頁都充滿了演算公式。我試著忽略證明的部分，並成功地通過考試。物理學的教科書有中文譯本，而大學的圖書館也有這些中文譯本的大量藏書。我們都衝到圖書館借閱這些中譯本。然而，化學對我來說才是最頭痛的，其中有好多我不曾看過的英語詞彙。我清晰地記得，光是第一頁，就有約20個我不懂的英語生字。在我花費大量時間查字典之後，我根本沒剩餘的精力去搞懂這頁在講什麼。

我在高中時期英語算是不錯的，但閱讀大學的英語教科書對我來說卻困難重重。如果我們閱讀高中的英語教科書，會發現這些書基本上是不談科學的。怪不得對於想要主修理工相關科系的學生，閱讀大學的科學教科書是如此困難。

本書精編了60篇有關生物、化學與物理的英語篇章。每篇文章都附有中文翻譯。這本書絕不是一本科學教科書。高中生可以隨興地閱讀本書。在上大學之前，他們會發現自己熟悉了一些科學術語。我們刻意選用高中程度的科學詞彙，所以舉例來說，本書不會提到像是量子物理學的詞彙。

The Preface

When I became a freshman student of the Department of Electrical Engineering, I was deeply troubled by having to read English textbooks. The calculus textbook was not too troublesome because every page was filled with formulas. I tried to ignore the proofs and was successful in passing the examinations. There was a Chinese translation version of the physics textbook and the University Library had a large number of these Chinese version books. We all stormed to the library to borrow ...

The Preface 作者序
How to Use This Book 使用導覽
Part 1 Biology 生物學
L1 　Living Organism 生物
L2 　Microscope 顯微鏡
L3 　Hooke and Leeuwenhoek 虎克與雷文霍克
L4 　Cell Structure 細胞結構
L5 　Carbohydrate 碳水化合物
L6 　The Willow Experiment 柳樹實驗
L7 　Smallpox 天花
L8 　Cancer Cell 癌細胞
L9 　Bacteria 細菌
L10　Penicillin 盤尼西林
L11　Virus 病毒
L12　Ulcer 胃潰瘍
L13　Heart 心臟
L14　Metabolism 新陳代謝
L15　Neuron 神經細胞
L16　Reflection 反射動作
L17　Blood Vessel 血管
L18　Food Digestion 食物消化
L19　Keeping Warm 保持溫暖
L20　Lung 肺
Part 2 Chemistry 化學
L1 　Mixture 混合物
L2 　Element 元素
L3 　Photosynthesis 光合作用
L4 　Dalton’s Atom Theory 道耳吞的原子說
L5 　More on Dalton’s Atom Theory 更多關於道耳吞的原子說
L6 　Dalton 道耳吞
L7 　Avogadro 亞佛加厥
L8 　Thomson 湯姆森
L9 　Rutherford’s Atomic Model 拉塞福的原子模型
L10　Moseley 莫色勒
L11　Avogadro Constant 亞佛加厥常數
L12　States of Material 物質的狀態
L13　Periodic Table 元素週期表
L14　Madame Curie 居禮夫人
L15　Plato and Boyle 柏拉圖與波以耳
L16　Lavoisier and Element 拉瓦節與元素
L17　Air 空氣
L18　Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide 二氧化碳與一氧化碳
L19　Global Warming 地球暖化
L20　Oxidation and Reduction 氧化反應與還原反應
Part 3 Physics 物理學
L1 　Time 時間
L2 　The Significance of Time to Ancient People 時間對古代人的意義
L3 　Calendars 曆法
L4 　Galileo—I 伽利略（I）
L5 　Galileo—II 伽利略（II）
L6 　Length—I 長度（I）
L7 　Length—II 長度（II）
L8 　Length—III 長度（III）
L9 　The Imperial System 英制
L10　Weight 重量
L11　Mass 質量
L12　Gravitational Force 引力
L13　Deformation 形變
L14　Mechanics 力學
L15　Energy 能量
L16　Kinetic Energy 動能
L17　The Transfer of Kinetic Energy 動能轉移
L18　Potential Energy 位能
L19　Wave 波
L20　Hertz 赫茲
Index 索引

The Preface 作者序
How to Use This Book 使用導覽
Part 1 Biology 生物學
L1 　Living Organism 生物
L2 　Microscope 顯微鏡
L3 　Hooke and Leeuwenhoek 虎克與雷文霍克
L4 　Cell Structure 細胞結構
L5 　Carbohydrate 碳水化合物
L6 　The Willow Experiment 柳樹實驗
L7 　Smallpox 天花
L8 　Cancer Cell 癌細胞
L9 　Bacteria 細菌
L10　Penicillin 盤尼西林
L11　Virus 病毒
L12　Ulcer 胃潰瘍
L13　Heart 心臟
L14　Metabolism 新陳代謝
L15　Neuron 神經細胞
L16　Reflection 反射動作
L17　Blood Vesse...