人们一直试图在科学界消除语言的隔阂,但却始终没有成功。创造一门通用科研用语的努力,最终被英语在学术表述中所取代。如果你是一位科研工作者,却发现自己读不懂用英文写的书评,那你的职业生涯恐怕会有麻烦。尽管英语不是现代科学界的通用语言,但无疑是一门非常重要的语言。迈克尔·戈尔汀在新著《科学的巴别塔》中坦诚地提到,英 People have been trying to eliminate the language barrier in science, but have never succeeded. The effort to create a common scientific term was eventually replaced by English in academic expressions. If you are a research scientist and find yourself reading a book review written in English, your career may be troublesome. Although English is not a common language in modern science, it is undoubtedly a very important language. Michael Goldin candidly mentioned in the new book Science in Babel