【英语时差8,16】冰激凌融化：热传导 -上

Live a single day on planet Earth, or anywhere else in the universe for that matter, and you will experience the natural phenomenon of heat conduction, which is the term used to describe the natural flow of heat from warmer objects to cooler ones. Your favorite scoop¹ of ice cream melting on a hot summer day is a perfect example of heat conduction where heat from the air is naturally drawn² to the much colder ice cream scoop. Because it is so commonly experienced in our daily lives, humankind has certainly had some understanding of heat conduction for a very long time. But not until the 19th century was this understanding sharpened by a French politician and scientist named Joseph Fourier who made a single equation, now known as "Fourier’s law" or the "Law of Heat Conduction," that models heat conduction so well it has been little altered since its creation.

1 scoop   

n.铲子，舀取，独家新闻；v.汲取，舀取，抢先登出

参考例句：

• In the morning he must get his boy to scoop it out.早上一定得叫佣人把它剜出来。
• Uh,one scoop of coffee and one scoop of chocolate for me.我要一勺咖啡的和一勺巧克力的。

2 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。