现代大学英语（第三版）精读1教学课件B1U9.pptxVIP

;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;Text;Text;Text;Text;Text;Text;Text;Text;Text;Text;The Greatest Invention Lord Dunsany 1 “What do you think is going to happen, Jorkens?” one of us asked one day at the club. 2 “Happen?” Jorkens said. “That is hard to say. In the old days one had a rough idea of what other countries wanted to do and their ability to do it. But it is all different now.” 3 “How is it different?” asked the man. 4 “There are so many inventions,” Jorkens said, “of which we know nothing. Now that a man can carry in a bag a bomb that is more powerful than several battleships, it is hard to find out what any country can do or will do next. I will give you an example.”;5 I was on a ship in the tropics (Jorkens told us), and we put into a port. I was tired of looking at the tropical sea, so I went ashore and walked into a tavern to see if they had any decent wines in that country. As it turned out, they hadn’t. But there was a man there with a black mustache and a certain look in his eyes that made me wonder if he might not have something interesting to tell. So I asked him if I might offer him a glass of wine. Well, he was good enough to accept, and I called for a bottle of the queer local wine. When the bottle had been uncorked and the wine poured out, like liquid tropical sunlight, I watched it go down under that black mustache. And when a certain amount had gone down, he began to talk. 6 “We aimed at the mastery of the whole Caribbean,” he said, “and don’t think that because we are a little country we could not have succeeded. War is no longer a matter of armies; it depends on the intelligence of scientists. And we had a scientist who, as I have since seen proved, had no rival west of the Atlantic.”;7 “You proved it?” I could not help saying. 8 “Yes,” he said. “You shall hear.” 9 I had another bottle of wine set before him, and I did hear. 10 “You may not have thought it,” he said, “but I was in our Ministry of Warfare.” 11 And I had not thought it,