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Last spring I joined an evening class about the history of science.去年春天，我参加了一个关于科学史的晚间班。 The teacher was an old philosopher who spent years on one question.老师是一位「哲学家」，他花了很多年只研究一个问题。 He said every early idea about the sky was only preliminary work.他说，早期关于天空的每个想法都只是「初步的」工作。 Later people called that work a philosophical foundation.后来的人把那种工作称为「哲学」基础。

The class was not simple, and I sat in the intermediate group.这个班并不简单，我坐在「中级」组里。 Our first task was to read a long page about lenses.我们的第一个任务是读一长页关于镜片的文字。 The teacher said a lens gives a photographic record.老师说，镜片给出的是「摄影的」记录。 In the plural, such records tell a wider story than one eye.用「复数」形式看，这类记录讲出的故事比一只眼睛更宽广。

Our small project became a slow progression of tests.我们的小项目变成了一连串缓慢的「进展」。 Every modification changed the shape of the bright spot.玻璃的每一次「改动」都改变了那个明亮圆点的形状。 The work felt progressive, and each result pointed to the next line.这份工作感觉很「进步的」，每个结果都指向下一条线。

The class lasted three months, and the last evening felt like a beginning.这个班持续了三个月，最后一个晚上像是一个开始。 The teacher told us that strict enforcement can stop a question.老师说，对一条旧规则的严格「执行」可能会挡住一个问题。 Unemployed men and women also joined, and their papers stayed underneath a cloth.「无业的」男女也来参加，他们的纸张就放在一块布「下面」。