who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients,
他向自然界而不是向古人提出问题，
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 32 Galileo reborn

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

nature ['netʃɚ] 词频1 词根: 出生
n. 自然;天性;天理;类型;
💡 nat出生的+ure状态→出生状态→天性
"the adversarial nature of the two-party system"
两党制的对抗性
近义：milieu, surroundings, circumambiency, medium, ecosystem, environment
instead [ɪn'stɛd] 词频1 词根: 站立
adv. 代替，顶替;反而;反倒;
💡 在(in)三杯(s)茶(tea)里用靴子(b) 代替杯子
"Lee was ill so I went instead."
李病了，所以我去了。
近义：however, rather
questions
n. 问题（question的复数）
ancients
n. 古代的( ancient的复数形式 ); 古老的; 年老的; 老式的

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alps must have very hard indeed.
对于过惯了一顿饭吃7道菜、睡亚麻细布床单的人来说，变换一下生活环境来到阿尔卑斯山山区，那一定是很艰难的。
Civilized men like such a way of living.
文明人喜欢这样一种生活方式。
The body's tissues are self-repairing and self-restoring to a degree, and function best when more or less continuously active.
人体组织在一定程度上有自我修补和自我恢复的能力，有张有弛地连续活动时，其功能最佳。
suggested an idea on which he had been working for many years to the British Government and industrial circles.
他向英国政府和工业界提出了他研究多年的一项计划。
so that there are heavy odds in favour of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty.
我们最可能死亡的年龄在65至80岁之间，
Ice is only as safe as the water from which it is made,
冰块只有当制造冰块的水安全时才是保险的，