The flood fell from the sky and lasted for 40 days and nights.
Noah's Ark is a fascinating legend in Genesis. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden for stealing forbidden fruit. From then on, Cain killed his younger brother, which opened the curtain for human beings to kill each other. The world is full of violence, hatred and jealousy, and only Noah is an upright man. God saw all kinds of human sins and was furious. He decided to destroy the ruined world with floods, leaving only limited creatures for Noah.
God asked Noah to build an ark out of gopher wood and taught Noah the specifications and structure of the ship. After that, Noah urged the world to repent while rushing to build the ark. It took Noah 120 years to build a huge ark. He listened to God and moved a family of eight, and all kinds of birds and animals entered the ark in pairs in an orderly way. Seven days later, the flood fell from the sky and lasted for 40 days and nights. All people, animals and plants fell into a bottomless disaster. Except for the Noah family, the descendants of Adam and Eve were swallowed up by the flood, and even the highest mountain in the world was 7 meters below the water surface.
God looked after Noah and the birds and animals in the ark, so he ordered the rain to stop, and the wind made waves, and the wind blew up the water, and the water gradually receded. Noah's ark docked at the edge of Mount Ararat. A few days later, Noah opened the window of the ark and released a crow to listen for news, but the crow never came back. Noah released another pigeon to see if the water on the ground had receded. Because there was water everywhere, the pigeons couldn't find a place to stay and flew back to the ark. Seven days later, Noah released the pigeon again. At dusk, Ye Fei came back with an olive in her mouth, apparently pecked from a tree. Noah judged from this that the water on the ground had receded. Later generations used pigeons and olive branches to symbolize peace.
2. Domino effect
Successfully knocked down more than 3.4 million dominoes, breaking the previous world record of 2.97 million set by the Dutch. As can be seen from the TV screen, the scene of dominoes falling down in turn in an instant is very spectacular, during which the patterns displayed are rich and amazing, which contains certain scientific truth.
This is the domino effect. The energy generated by this effect is enormous.
The physical reason for this effect is that when the domino stands upright, its center of gravity is higher, but when it falls down, its gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. When it falls on the second card, the kinetic energy is transferred to the second card, and the second card transfers the sum of the kinetic energy transferred from the first card and the kinetic energy converted from its own gravitational potential energy in the falling process to the third card. ...
A Whitehead, a physicist at the University of British Columbia, once made a set of dominoes, *** 13, and the first one was the smallest. It is 9.53mm long, 7.6mm wide and 1. 19mm thick, which is not as big as a small nail. In the future, each block will be expanded by 1.5 times. This data is based on the fact that a domino can knock down a domino whose volume is 1.5 times when it falls. The largest is 13, which is 665444. The size of the deck is close to that of playing cards, and its thickness is 20 times that of playing cards. If you arrange this set of dominoes at an appropriate interval and gently press the first card, it will inevitably affect 13. 13 The energy released when dominoes fall is more than 2 billion times larger than that when the first card falls, because the energy of domino effect increases exponentially. If you knock down the first domino, you need 0.024 microjoules. It can be seen that the energy generated by the domino effect is really eye-catching.
However, A. Whitehead didn't make the 32nd domino after all, because it would be as high as 4 15m, twice as high as the Empire State Building in New York. If someone really made such a set of dominoes, skyscrapers could be knocked down with one finger!
3. Pandora
1. Prometheus stole fire from the sky and gave it to mankind. Man learned to use fire, and Zeus, the Lord God, was very angry. In order to offset the great benefits brought by fire to mankind, Zeus decided to let disaster befall mankind. Zeus first ordered hephaestus, the god of fire, to mix water and earth into a lovely woman according to the image of the goddess. Then he ordered Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, to be poured with hormones that make men crazy; Goddess Athena teaches women to weave and make beautiful clothes in various colors, which makes women look more colorful and charming. After completing all the formalities, Zeus sent the messenger Hermes to say, "Put your cunning, cunning, cheating and stealing personality in!" "
A complete woman is finally finished. The gods dressed her in clothes, rabbit hats and pearls, as beautiful as a bride. Hamish suggested, "Call this woman Pandora. This is a gift from God to mankind. " All the gods agreed with his suggestion. In ancient Greek, Pan meant everything and Dora was a gift. "Pandora" means "the person who is given all the advantages".
Zeus ordered Hermes to take this woman to Prometheus' younger brother, Epimetheus, as his wife. Unlike Prometheus, flounder is born stupid. Prometheus advised him, "If Zeus gives you anything, you must not accept it." However, Jeb Mysius was stupid. Under the temptation of Pandora, he was immediately fascinated by beauty, forgot Prometheus' account and accepted Zeus' gift happily.
So Pandora and Jebusius lived together. Soon after, Prometheus brought a big box to Epimetheus and told him not to open it, but Pandora was a curious woman. She thought, "Why is an ordinary box hidden so deep?" And things are so complicated, why on earth? Pandora knocked on the box while Jeb Mysius was away. As a result, nothing Pandora expected, but countless disasters and pests. Before Pandora opened the box, human beings lived a quiet life without any disaster, because all viruses and diseases were kept in the box, so that human beings could not be tortured. Because of Pandora's curiosity and ignorance, all disasters escaped happily. Since then, disasters have harmed human beings day and night, making them suffer everywhere.
In a panic, Pandora covered the big box in time, leaving only hope in it. Therefore, even if human beings are constantly tortured and tortured by life, there is always precious hope in their hearts to motivate themselves. Before death, hope always exists, and life is absolutely full of beautiful hope.
There is also a saying that Zeus gave Pandora a sealed box full of evil, disaster and plague, and asked her to give it to the man she married. Prometheus was convinced that Zeus was hostile to mankind and warned his brother Epitos not to accept Zeus' gift. But he didn't listen to advice and married the beautiful Pandora. Driven by curiosity, Pandora opened the box and all the disasters, plagues and plagues in it flew out at once. Since then, mankind has suffered disasters, plagues and disasters. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, quietly put the beautiful thing "hope" at the bottom of the box to save human destiny. Before it could fly out of the box, the cunning Pandora closed the box. Later, the metaphor of "Pandora's box" brought unfortunate gifts; The cave of disaster.
4. ivory tower
According to the fourth quarter of Chapter 7 of the Song of Songs in the Old Testament, Solomon, the wise and rich king of Israel, wrote 65,438+0,005 poems, among which Song of Songs is a love song. In the fifth song, the groom praised the bride like this: "... your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are near the gate of Bartrabbi in Heshbon, like a pool ... (... your neck is like an ivory tower; Your eyes are like a pool near the sliding door of Heshbon Patna; ……)。 Obviously, the ivory tower here is only used to describe the bride's beautiful neck. Later, the word was gradually applied to all aspects of social life, mainly referring to "an isolated fantasy, a paradise to escape from real life, and an isolated place". In Chinese, the extended meaning of ivory tower mainly refers to "the metaphor of the small world of writers and artists who are divorced from real life". Universities and research institutes are such places.
Compare the ivory tower to a school because:
1. Ivory Tower, French translation of C? te d 'Ivoire, latour.
At first, Charles Augustin1804-1869, a literary critic in France19th century, criticized the contemporary negativity. Poems by the poet Winnie the Pooh (Alfred Victor 1797- 1863).
The original intention is to ignore the ugly and miserable life of the real society and avoid it? Think of a happy situation to engage in creation.
Later, it was used to describe the small world of writers and artists who were divorced from real life (real scholar society, university research room, etc.). )
2. Zhou Zuoren used the metaphor of a scholar who lives in a high tower. It may be influenced by Chuchuan Baicun's Out of the Ivory Tower.
3. The Ivory Tower According to the fourth quarter of the seventh chapter of the Old Testament, Solomon, the wise and rich king of Israel, wrote 65,438+0,005 poems, of which Song of Songs is a song of love. In the fifth song, the groom praised the bride like this: "... your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are near the gate of Bartrabbi in Heshbon, like a pool ... (... your neck is like an ivory tower; Your eyes are like a pool near the sliding door of Heshbon Patna; ……)。 Obviously, the ivory tower here is only used to describe the bride's beautiful neck. Later, the word was gradually applied to all aspects of social life, mainly referring to "an isolated fantasy, a paradise to escape from real life, and an isolated place". In Chinese, the extended meaning of ivory tower mainly refers to "the metaphor of the small world of writers and artists who are divorced from real life". Universities and research institutes are such places.
IvoryTower According to Songofsons in Chapter 7, Section 4 of the Old Testament, Solomon, the wise and rich king of Israel, wrote 65,438+0,005 poems, among which songofsongs is a love song. In the fifth song, the groom praised the bride like this: "... your neck is like a lighthouse. Your eyes are at the gate of Bartrabbi in Heshbon ... (... your neck is like an ivory tower; Your eyes are like a pool near the sliding door of Heshbon Patna; ……)。 Obviously, the ivory tower here is only used to describe the bride's beautiful neck. Later, the word was gradually applied to all aspects of social life, mainly referring to "an isolated fantasy, a paradise to escape from real life, and an isolated place". In Chinese, the extended meaning of ivory tower mainly refers to "the metaphor of the small world of writers and artists who are divorced from real life". Universities and research institutes are such places.
The ivory tower is a criticism of Ni Wei, a contemporary negative romantic poet in this century, by Saint Pevey, a French literary critic in the19th century.
It means getting away from the real society, life, hiding in a lonely and comfortable personal world, and engaging in writing activities with subjective fantasies.
Lu Xun once called on revolutionary literary and art workers to walk out of the ivory tower, into the society and into the whirlpool center to create good works reflecting real life.