双语趣听精彩世界第35期:还在费劲儿学外语?30年后吞药丸学外语或将实现

 　　赫芬顿邮报:科学家预言,未来不久,人们将能够通过吞药丸来获取知识,一颗药丸下肚,可能就学会了一门外语.有这么简单的方法,那中国的同学们再不用担心英语学习了.

　　吃药丸学习英语?

　　Huffington Post: Will we soon learn languages by taking a PILL? Scientist predicts humans will ingest information within 30 years.

　　Slaving over textbooks and spending hours in a classroom conjugating¹ verbs could be a thing of the past if one scientist's predictions come true.

　　Nicholas Negroponte of MIT predicted the demise² of the computer mouse back in the 1980s and now thinks that it could be just 30 years until we can 'ingest' languages.

1 conjugating   

vt.使结合（conjugate的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Methods γ-Ty-Folate was synthesized by conjugating folic acid to tyrosine methyl ester through EDC and hydrolyzing. 方法　叶酸(Folate)与酪氨酸甲酯通过EDC连接 ，水解后生成叶酸酪氨酸复合物 (γ Ty Folate)。 来自互联网

2 demise   

n.死亡；v.让渡，遗赠，转让

参考例句：

• He praised the union's aims but predicted its early demise.他赞扬协会的目标，但预期这一协会很快会消亡。
• The war brought about the industry's sudden demise.战争道致这个行业就这么突然垮了。