Live互動英語學習報 --六月四日



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2010 年 6 月 4 日 (No.461)


		說明：
		be in charge of + N./V-ing 是指「負責……；掌管……」，主詞多為人或機構。

		示範句：
		Susan is in charge of the sales department.
		蘇珊掌管業務部。
		take charge of 「管理；負責」

		He will take charge of the sales department after the holidays.
		假期結束後，他將管理業務部。
		put + sb + in charge of 「讓（某人）管理、負責……」

		The president put his son in charge of marketing.
		那個總裁讓自己兒子負責行銷事務。

先小試一下身手，看看用哪個單字才對？
1.	The book started with a ____________ (broad/wide) outline of its contents.
2.	The dentist told me to open ____________ (broad/wide).

關鍵說明：

broad 和 wide 有什麼不一樣？一起來看看。

broad

wide

使用情境

⊙	概括的；粗略的
⊙	選擇「廣」的

⊙	寬的；（眼睛、嘴巴等）張大的

示範句：

broad

The ideas were too broad to be useful.

這些意見太粗略，不太有幫助。

The store has a broad selection of products.

這間店有很多種產品。

wide

This room is four meters wide.

這個房間有四公尺寬。

His eyes were wide with surprise.

他的雙眼因驚訝而張大。

解答：1. broad 2. wide

Einstein─Person of the Century (1)

愛因斯坦－－世紀大人物 (1)

Albert Einstein was not always a scientist. In 1905, he was just a clerk in an office in Switzerland, but he enjoyed thinking about math and science. He wrote notes on pieces of paper and put them in a drawer. He jokingly called this drawer his "department of physics."

One day, he went for a long walk and had an idea. He wrote thirty pages and sent them to a scientific magazine. A few weeks later, he realized he had forgotten something, so he wrote three more pages. It was in these three almost-forgotten pages that Einstein first wrote the equation that changed the world forever :E=MC².

亞伯特‧愛因斯坦並非一直都是科學家。一九○五年時，他只是一位在瑞士一個小辨公室裡的職員，可是他享受思考數學與科學。他把筆記寫在紙上，然後放在抽屜裡，他戲稱這個抽屜是他的「物理部門」。

有一天，他在散步時想到了一個主意。他寫了三十頁，並寄給一本科學雜誌。幾個星期後，他意識到他漏了某些東西，所以他加寫了三頁。也就是在這險些被遺忘的三頁裡，他初次寫下了世界被永遠改變的方程式：E=MC²。


clerk	n.	職員

jokingly	adv.	開玩笑地

physics	n.	物理

realize	v.	意識到；領悟