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发表于2024-05-06
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Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What If?, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the Internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they’re getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
作者用最常用的简单单词解释各种复杂的结构和事物,很有意思,只是这样也显得有点唠叨。看的是电子版,字太小看得挺累的。
评分应该完全是给小学三年级以下的人看的,任何稍微懂得相关术语的人再看这本书时都不得不费力思考这些simple words所指涉的概念,这大约就是沃格林说的语言的分殊化是个不可逆的过程——没有人愿意在知道更准确表达方式的前提下仍然忍受一般化和弱智化的表达。
评分书的理念非常有意思:以最常用的一千个词汇描述解释一些复杂的概念和东西。排版、装帧、颜色和插图都很合我的口味,但是认真读解释的时候,会不由自主地去想他所描述的到底是哪一个概念。对成年人来说,这本书有点像猜谜语,比如“tiny bags of water you’ve made of”,这是什么呢?”stuff in earth we can burn”? 只有tree可以直接说tree, 因为它在一千基本词范围之内。这本有趣的书从反面证明各种精确词汇的必要性,但我绝对理解赞赏它严格使用一千单词来解释万物的努力。这就像给小一小二的学生出考卷,单词量就那么多,每份卷子必须不一样,必须考出学生的水平,对于出题者,是有意义的挑战。对于《What If》的作者来说,创作这书一定巨好玩。
评分三四年前读的,觉得真是太酷了!有好多处惊呼从没想过可以这样看世界~
评分三四年前读的,觉得真是太酷了!有好多处惊呼从没想过可以这样看世界~
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Thing Explainer pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024