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实验experiment[英][ɪk'sperɪmənt] [美][ɪkˈspɛrəmənt] 中英文小故事：一次不同寻常的实验 一个人没有目标，就像一艘轮船没有舵一样，只能随波逐流，无法掌握，最终搁浅在绝望、失败、消沉的海滩上。法国著名的自然学家约翰•亨利•费伯勒， 用一些列队毛虫做了一次不同寻常的实验。这些毛虫喜欢盲目追随前边的一个,所以得了这么个名字。费伯勒很仔细地将它们放在一个花盆外的框架上排成一圈，这样，领头的毛虫实际上就碰到了最后一只毛虫,完全形成了一个圆圈。 在花盆中间，他放上松针，这是这种毛虫爱吃的食物,这些毛虫开始围绕着花盆转圈,，它们转了一圈又一圈，一小时又一小时,一天又一天，一晚又一晚。它们围绕着花盆转了整整七天七夜。最后，它们全都因饥饿劳累而死。一大堆食物就在离它们不到6英寸远的地方，它们却一个个地饿死了。原因无它，只是因为它们按照以往习惯的方式去盲目地行动。 许多人也犯了同样的错误,对生活提供的巨大财富,只能收获到一点点。尽管未知的财富就近在眼前，他们却得之甚少，因为他们肓目地、毫不怀疑地跟着圆圈里的人群漫无目的地走着。他们随波逐流，只是因为“事情一直就是这样做的”。 没有目标的一生，就像轮船没有舵，注定碌碌无为。 A Most Unusual Experiment A man or a woman without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. Each will drift and not drive. Each will end up on the beaches of despair，defeat and despondency. John Henry Fabre，the great French naturalist，conducted a most unusual experiment with some Processionary Caterpillars. These caterpillars blindly follow the one in front of them. Hence,the name. Fabre carefully arranged them in a circle around the rim of a flower pot，so that the lead caterpillar actually touched the last one，making a complete circle. In the center of the flower pot he put pine needles, which is food for the Processionary Caterpillar. The caterpillars started around this circular flower pot. A- round and around they 'vent，hour after hour,day after day,night after night. For seven full days and seven full nights they went around the flower pot. Finally, they dropped dead of starvation and exhaustion. With an abundance of food less than six inches away，they literally starved to death，because they confused activity with accomplishment. Many people make the same mistake and as a result reap only a small fraction of the harvest life has to offer. Despite the fact that untold wealth lies within reach，they acquire very little of it because they blindly，without question，follow the crowd in a circle to nowhere. They follow methods and procedures for no other reason than “It’s 中英文例句 1. I started this experiment 3 years ago. 我开始这个实验有3年了。 2. About 50 people participated in each experiment. 大约五十人参加了各项试验。 3. Experiment with new ways to complete a task. 尝试用新的方法来完成任务。 4. Oxborrow admits that he was skittish about the experiment. 奥克斯波洛承认，他对是否进行实验犹豫不决。 5. Let us do a thought experiment. 让我们做一个思想实验吧。 |
