It is not easy for Fabres to achieve such great achievements. He was born in a peasant family and lived in poverty since childhood. He obtained several degrees through self-study. He was penniless in the first half of his life and barely had enough food and clothing in the second half, but Fabres didn't give in to all kinds of difficulties. He was diligent in self-study, carefully selected his research direction, made unremitting observation and research on insects and plants, and constantly made new achievements. Fabres's greatest interest in his life is to explore the true face of the life world and discover the scientific truth contained in nature. He wrote entomology because he loves truth.
How I long to swim in the ocean of knowledge like Fabres, explore the world of science, uncover the mysteries of nature one after another, and benefit mankind! However, compared with Fabres, I am really ashamed. Fabres can study insects in a difficult environment. Usually, I don't even take math problems seriously or work hard. If I can't, I don't want to think about it, and sometimes I lose my temper.
2 Reading Notes "Insects"
Reading notes
"Insect" Fabers
The author introduces:
Fabres, commonly known as Jean-henri fabre, was born on February 22nd in a peasant family in Saint-Leon village, Averon province in southern France.
Fabres loved insects all his life, tirelessly engaged in unique entomological research, and wrote volumes of entomological works from his own labor. The French literary world once recommended Virgil as a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature with the title of "Virgil in the Insect World". Unfortunately, before the final decision was made, news came that Fabres had passed away.
Fables was once called an "insect observer", but he was recognized as an "entomologist" in his later years. After his death, people called him "entomologist and writer" for a period of time, and later called him "writer and entomologist". These titles are well-deserved for Fabres.
Content introduction:
Entomology is a masterpiece written with a lot of scientific report materials and literary temperament. Its style is basically prose, and its main content is entomology. At the same time, it includes some biographical articles about experiences and memories, some expositions about solving theoretical problems, and a small amount of words with popular science knowledge. The advantages of an entomological explorer who has gone through many vicissitudes and pursued many things have been fully exerted in this masterpiece. There are more than 220 articles in ten volumes, which are rich in content and have their own opinions; But I'm afraid only the author knows the difficulty of the project best. Fabres said: "Prose writing" is more cruel than solving the roots of equations.
Excerpts from good words:
Miscommunicating the truth, being smart, following the trend, robbing, fabricating and exaggerating.
Excerpts from good sentences:
Children are beautiful memories.
What we want to talk about is this looting, which is a historical unsolved case that no one knows so far.
Excerpts from excellent paragraphs:
In July, when our insects, thirsty and disappointed, ran around looking for drinks on withered flowers, cicadas were still very comfortable and did not feel pain. Pierce the inexhaustible bucket with its protruding mouth-a slender straw, sharp as an awl, stored in the chest. It sits on the branch and sings all the time. As long as it drills through the smooth bark and there is a lot of juice in it, insert the straw into the hole of the bucket and it will be full.
Four years of hard work in the dark and enjoyment in January sunshine are cicada's life, and we should not hate the noise and exaggeration in its songs. Because it dug for four years, now it suddenly put on beautiful clothes, grew wings comparable to birds, and bathed in warm sunshine. The sound of the cymbal can be high enough to praise its happiness, so rare and so short.
That seemingly sincere attitude is deceptive. The seemingly praying arm is actually the most terrible sword. No matter what passes by it, it will immediately reveal its true colors and kill it with its weapons. Really fierce as a hungry tiger, cruel as a demon. It only eats live animals. It seems that under its gentle veil, there is a terrible murderous look hidden.
My feelings:
Fables is both an entomologist and a writer. In this book, many explanatory methods and rhetorical devices are used to make insect stories authoritative, vivid and easy to understand, instead of being as boring, boring and difficult to remember as ordinary explanatory texts. It is really valuable. Of course, this is inseparable from Fabres's efforts. He studies insects day and night because he is brave in exploration and eager for knowledge. His spirit should also be worth learning.
Elegant killer, among peaceful insect residents, it is a tiger, a huge demon, lurking for its prey, its carnivorous appetite and perfect and terrible weapons, and it is the overlord on the battlefield. There is a strong hook at the end of the calf, and the sharpness of the hook tip is comparable to that of the best steel needle. There is also a slot under the hook, and there are two blades on the slot. The forelimb is a terrible and powerful weapon of mantis. At the same time, it has a light posture, elegant fur, light green body color and wings as long as gauze. It always appears in front of its prey in an evil way, eating the prey paralyzed by fear. The scrawny male mantis jumped on the fat girl's back and declared his love. The prelude to the wedding lasted a long time before mating. After mating, the male mantis is useless, and after marriage, it becomes a delicious meal for the fertilized female mantis. Usually, a female mantis will eat no less than seven grooms for the health of the next generation.
Mantis seems to be the pinnacle of the food chain in the insect world. The prolific mantis itself also makes organic matter. /kloc-only a small part of more than 0/000 eggs are used for reproduction, and most of them are doing their best to contribute to the picnic of all life. This reminds us of an ancient symbol: a snake biting its tail. The world is a circle from beginning to end: the end is for the beginning, and the death is for survival.
Cicada, which sings hard during the day, is attacked and slaughtered by green grasshoppers at night. Cicada's butcher cut open his stomach with powerful jaws and sharp pliers, and he also ate some grass to balance his diet.
On a summer night, the main choirs of the concert were all here: horn horn (Hu) performed a sad solo, bell toad played a sonata with a bell, Italian cricket plucked the strings of the violin, and green cricket seemed to tap a small triangle. Today, we celebrate the new era with more noise than faith, with complacent fireworks blooming in the night sky, just because people who were hated yesterday have become idols today; However, these little creatures left the world to celebrate the Sun Festival. They sang the joy of life and cheered for the scorching summer sun.
Wedding feat, a newly hatched female butterfly, even if locked in a room, or even hidden in a box, far away from the fields, in a noisy city, the news will still spread to the insects in the Woods and grasslands. Guided by an incredible compass, male butterflies came from far away. They went straight to the box, pricked up their ears and circled back and forth. This little striped butterfly is a rare species, which attracted more than 60 courtiers who didn't appear on weekdays on the day it hatched. However, due to negligence, the female striped butterfly became the dish of the little mantis, and the experiment was interrupted for three years. The author is regaining the cocoons of two small striped butterflies, the suffocating smell of lavender and the pungent stench of sulfide, and the mixed smell of gas, tobacco, perfume, oil and unpleasant chemicals still hasn't made them flock. The sense of smell is guiding the small striped butterfly and transmitting information to them from a distance. Male butterflies are controlled by their sense of smell and no longer consider the information provided by vision.
Where slugs are alive and kicking, where butterflies hover lightly, where mosquitoes fly freely and where dragonflies dance, they will camp there. The only condition is that as long as there is a fulcrum for netting. Several equidistant straight lines radiate from a center. On the basis of this frame, a spider silk keeps circling around from the center and intersects with radiation to form a cross. At the lower part of the spider's web, an opaque broad band hangs down from the central point, which is the mark of the web woven by the ribbon-shaped circular spider. Bending the strong broadband is to make the spider web stronger.
Spiders are more talented in giving birth to children. The silk bag, or spider's nest, used by spiders to hold spider eggs is far superior to birds. It is shaped like an inverted balloon and the size of a pigeon eggs. The upper end of the silk bag is gradually closed into a pear shape, and the opening is even, and it is inlaid with crescent edges. The silk extends from the corner of each crescent and is fixed on the surrounding twigs. The rest of the silk bag is elegant and oval, hanging vertically between several stable silk threads. The top of the silk bag is sunken like a crater and covered with spider silk felt. The other part is a complete shell made of satin.
Another kind of silver spider will use silk to build an exquisite diving cover for itself in the water to store air. It's like an underwater cool restaurant.