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1、Unit 2 Robots Section Learning about Language &；Using Language原文呈现读文清障A BIOGRAPHYOF ISAAC ASIMOVIsaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. But he is bes
2、t known for his science fiction stories. Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past.Asimovs life began in Russia, where he was born on 2 January
3、, 1920. It ended in New York on 6 April, 1992, when he died as a result of an HIV infection that he had got from a blood transfusion nine years earlier.biography/baIrfI/n(由他人撰写的)传记；传记文学holy/hlI/adj.神的；上帝的；圣洁的定语从句who wrote around 480 books that included .修饰an American scientist and writer。该定语从句中又包含一个
4、定语从句that included .对books加以修饰和限制。be best known for因最负盛名imagination /ImdIneIn/n想象(力)；创造力；幻想物explore vt.探索，探险search for搜寻，寻找where he was born .是where引导的非限制性定语从句，修饰Russia。as a result of作为的结果transfusion /trnsfjun/n输血艾萨克阿西莫夫传第12段译文艾萨克阿西莫夫是美国的科学家兼作家，他写过大约480本书，包括怪诞小说、科学和历史方面的书，甚至还写过有关圣经和莎士比亚的书。但是，他最有名的作品是
5、他的科幻小说。阿西莫夫不仅有着超凡的想象力，使他能对未来世界进行探索，而且还有着惊人的智力，使他搜寻对现在的和过去的各种事物的解释。阿西莫夫的一生从俄罗斯开始，他生于1920年1月2日。其一生在纽约结束，他于1992年4月6日去世，他是因为9年前的一次输血中感染了艾滋病病毒而去世的。When Asimov was three, he moved with his parents and his oneyearold sister to New York City. There his parents bought a candy store which they ran for the nex
6、t 40 or so years. At the age of nine, when his mother was pregnant with her third child, Asimov started working parttime in the store. He helped out through his school and university years until 1942, a year after he had gained a masters degree in chemistry. In 1942 he joined the staff of the Philad
7、elphia Navy Yard as a junior chemist and worked there for three years. In 1948 he got his PhD in chemistry. The next year he became a biochemistry teacher at Boston University School of Medicine. In 1958 he gave up teaching to become a fulltime writer. or so大约(用在数字之后)which引导限制性定语从句，修饰a candy store。p
8、regnant adj.怀孕的；富有意义的parttime/ptaIm/adj.兼职的help out帮助脱离困境；解决难题masters degree硕士学位staff/stf/n全体员工；手杖navy/neIvI/n海军；海军部队junior/dunI/n年少者；晚辈；等级较低者 adj.较年幼的；资历较浅的；地位较低的PhDDoctor of Philosophy哲学博士学位；博士学位biochemistry/baIkemIstrI/n生物化学fulltime专职的，全职的第3段译文,阿西莫夫3岁的时候，就随同父母和年仅一岁的妹妹迁到纽约。在那儿，他的父母买下了一家糖果店，后来一直经营了
9、大约40年。阿西莫夫9岁的时候，母亲怀了第三个孩子，他就开始在糖果店里兼职工作了。他读中学和大学的那段时期都在糖果店里工作，一直到1942年，也就是他获得化学硕士学位一年以后他才停止糖果店的工作。1942年他成为费城海军造船厂的一名初级化学师，并在那里工作了3年。1948年他获得化学博士学位。第二年他在波士顿大学的医学院任生化教员。1958年他放弃了教学工作成为专职作家。It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. He had told a friend two chap
10、ters of a story he had written. The friend thought he was retelling a story from a book. This really surprised Asimov and from that moment, he started to take himself seriously as a writer. Asimov began having stories published in science fiction magazines in 1939. In 1950 he published his first nov
11、el and in 1953 his first science book.talent/tlnt/n天才；特殊能力；才干It was when Asimov was eleven years old that .是强调句型，强调的是时间状语when Asimov was eleven years old。chapter/tpt/n. (书中的)章；篇；回he had written是定语从句，修饰先行词a story。take .as把当作having stories published是have sth. done结构，done作sth.的宾补。第4段译文,早在阿西莫夫11岁的时候，他的写
12、作才华就已经显露出来了。他把他写的小说中的两个章节讲给一个朋友听。这个朋友还以为他是在复述某本书上的故事呢。这使阿西莫夫很惊讶，从那以后，他就开始把自己当做一名真正的作家。1939年，阿西莫夫开始在科幻杂志上发表小说，1950年出版了他的第一部小说，1953年出版了他的第一部科学书籍。Throughout his life, Asimov received many awards， both for his science fiction books and his science books. Among his most famous works of science fiction, o
13、ne for which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy (19511953), three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future. It was loosely based on the fall of the Roman Empire but was about the future. These books are famous because Asimov invented a theoreticalframewo
14、rk which was designed to show how ideas and thinking may develop in the future. He is also well known for his collection of short stories, I, Robot (1950), in which he developed a set of three “laws” for robots. For example, the first law states that a robot must not injure human beings or allow the
15、m to be injured. Some of his ideas about robots later influenced other writers and even scientists researching into artificial intelligence.Asimov was married twice. He married his first wife in 1942 and had a son and a daughter. Their marriage lasted 31 years. Soon after his divorce in 1973, Asimov married again but he had no children with his second wife.award n奖，奖品；vt.给颁奖；授予奖for which he won an award是for which引导的定语从句，for表示“因为”。the Foundation /fandeIn/ trilogy /trIldI/ 基地三部曲empire /empaI/n帝国galaxy n银河系；星系base .on以为基
