2024年4月26日发(作者：)

新概念第四册课文翻译及学习笔记【Lesson4、5、6】

Lesson4

【课文】

First listen and then answer the following question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

How did Vera discover she had this gift of second sight?

Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and

detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case

concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who

can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This

ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened

to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he

kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they

were done up in bundles.

Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in

the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests

by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic.

During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and,

stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to

describe the figures and colours printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing

stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture

hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a

similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when

blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that

although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her

hands were wet.

ERIC DE MAUNY Seeing hands from The Listener

【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

solid adj. 坚实的

safe n. 保险柜

ulyanovsk n. 乌里扬诺夫斯克

commission n. 委员会

opaque adj. 不透明的