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去百度文库,查看完整内容>内容来自用户:木灬奎2019年西南大学考博英语真题回忆Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form andfunction, their dimensions and appearance, were determined by technologists, artisans, designers,inventors, and engineers – using nonscientific modes of thought. Many features and qualities ofthe object that a technologist thinks about cannot be reced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. In the development of Westerntechnology, it has been nonverbal thinking, by the large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in thedetails of our material surroundings. Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because ofgeometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who builtthem.The creative shaping process of a technologist’s mind can be seen in nearly every artifact thatexists. For example, in designing a diesel engine, a technologist might impress indivial ways ofnonverbal thinking on the machine by continually using an intuitive sense of rightness and fitness.What would be the shape of the combustion chamber? Where should be valves be replaced?Should it have a long