Science&Technology Flashcards
Breakthrough
Sudden success پیشرفت غیرمنتظره
Life expectancy
the number of years that a person is likely to live
~ There have been many remarkable advances in medicine that have helped to increase our average life expectancy way beyond that of our ancestors
Examined closely and scientifically
Analyzed
Planning and production
Development
Scientific study
Research
Modern invention
Innovation
Terrified of modern technology
Technophobe
Interested in modern tech
Technophile
Safeguard
The union safeguards the interests of all its members.
Extensive background checks on staff are carried out to safeguard children in schools.
The best safeguard against someone stealing your car is to lock it.
A scientific test
An experiment
Scientists conducted a scientific test to see how ppl react to different smells.
Leap
- A big change, increase, or improvement:
~a leap in profits
~It takes quite a leap of the imagination to believe that it’s the same person. - To make a large jump or sudden movement
~He leaped out of his car and ran towards the house. - To achieve something suddenly, usually fame, power
~He leapt to fame after his appearance in a Broadway play.
Invention
Creating a new device
Innovation
Upgrading and developing the already existed technology
Nuclear Engineering
Studying the different ways of extracting and controlling energy from atomic particles
Cybernetics
The development of cybernetics led to mass automation in factories, which in turn led to millions losing their jobs
Genetic engineering
The relatively new science of genetic eng has been seen as a major step forward
Properly analyzed
Putting modified foods onto the market before scientists had properly analyzed them was perhaps one of the most irresponsible decisions
Experiments on animal
Many consider to be cruel and unnecessary
We all rely on modern science and tech to improve our lives.
We need to make sure we can control it
Latest exciting development
man’s newest achievement
Conquer space
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Infinitely
Earth has sights which are infinitely exciting and spectacular
Space race
is just an extention of the race for power on earth
Pure scientific research
The wealthiest nation compete on space race in the name of pure scientific research
spectator
they want to impress us, their spectators, with a MAGNICIFANT SHOW OF STRENGTH
we are often told that technological know-how, aquired in attempting to get us into orbit, will be utilized to make life better on earth
What has the space race done to releive the suffering of the aerth’s starving millions
Negligible
Very few
The practical results of all this expenditure of money and effort are negligible
Utterly absurd
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Men’s greatest enemy
Poverty, hunger, disease and if nations devoted half as much money and effort to those problems as they do to space rate they could eradicate all these.
Man has an overwhelming technological resource to combat human suffering
Yet he squnders(talaf kardan) them on meaninless pursuits
Limited budgets
Individuals with limited budgets usually get their priorities right: they provide themselves with necessities before trying to obtain luxuries.
Download books ONTO devices
E books
Overtook
This year e books overtake sales of paperback books
Publishing
The book industry
The nuts and bolts
The basic and essential parts
Characters, plot, and setting are the basic nuts and bolts of fiction
