A short history of nearly everything(万物简史),作者Bill Bryson 。

总词数15001,首万词不重复词数2204,蓝思值1190L,属于生词和行文都比较难的原著。伍教练读的第100本长篇英文原著,第10本在手机上阅读的电子英文原著。透析十载,DI冲到100,有群友老问我有多少单词的阅读量,有没有一千万,我只好查查有记录的数据,发现53本数有记录的书已经达到848万总单词量,而余下47本则多为更厚的专业书,只会是更多的单词,再加上几乎天天在编译英文网页,总共读了两千万估计是有的。
《万物简史》按照每一屏幕查一个词,不连续两屏查词,第一屏不查词的手机透析规则,伍教练查了335个生词,查词率每万词查20个,高于纸张版的《苏菲的世界》8个、《基地》16个、电子版《幸福之路》10个。
abeyance, ad hoc, adduce, adenosine, aeronautical, afield, albedo, algae, ambergris, amphipod, angstrom, apatite, Appalachians, arcane, archaea, Archaean, archeopteryx, arthropod, assuredness, asthenospher, at all events, at length, at one's elbow, athlete's foot, atoll, australopithecine, B.O., backwater, barnacle, basalt, bathysphere, baton, belated, belemnite, bend, bend double, Bern, Betelgeuse, bide one's time, biped, blackball, body plan, boggy, boom box, breccia, brick over, bryology, burp, burrow, by all accounts, cache, caisson, caldera, Cambrian, caper, casuarina, Cepheid variable, cerium, Chagas' disease, chitin, chlorophyll, chondrite, chordate, cirrus, cladistics, class, clinopyroxene, clobber, Clostridium perfringens, coccolith, codon, come round, complement, conflagration, conga, contrail, contrarian, convection, convivial, coprolite, Coriolis effect, crake, Cretaceous, Cro-Magnon, crystallography, cumbrous, curate, Cyanobacteria, dapper, defile, Deimos, detritus, Devonian, diatom, dimetrodon, diorama, disgorge, disingenuous, divest, diving bell, dodo, dogfight, draper, dugong, echidna, Ediacaran fauna, émigré, endocast, entropy, ethyl, farm out, fathometer, faulty, femur, finicky, floe, fluke, fluky, flummox, foraminiferan, frostbite, Galapagos Islands, geyser, gibbon, glen, globule, Goldilocks, Gondwana, gooey, gossamer, guano, gullet, haddock, hadron, hadrosaur, hagfish, halibut, halophilic, hang glider, hanky-panky, hatter, Hilo, hirsute, hobnail, hominid, hydrothermal, iguanodon, inchoate, inebriation, interferometer, intoxicant, Inverness, isoquant, isostasy, isthmian, jimmy, Joule, jounce, jovian, judder, keel, kimberlite, koa, lamely, largish, Lassa, Laurasia, lepton, lint, lithe, liverwort, ludicrous, lug, lunette, magma, mamo, marsh gas, marsupial, mastodon, megalosaurus, meiotic, menagerie, meridional, meson, mesosphere, micron, mirabilis, molybdenum, Monera, monogram, monograph, moose, moraine, mote, mycologist, myxomycete, Neandertal, nematode, New England, newt, nimbus, ninny, nitroglycerin, not least, observe, on a par with, oomph, Ordovician, origami, ornithology, osseous, osteodystrophy, outback, outcrop,