论文摘要的阅读有助于理解(了解)科学意义和学习科技论文摘要的写作。阅读可分为粗读和精读。粗读只要求了解主要内容,精读是进一步的阅读。一种是科学意义上的精读,是为了精确而深刻地了解其科学内容,对不认识的词可借助工具,必要时可请教专家。另一种是为了学习科学论文摘要写作的精读,这就要求了解摘要写作中的人称、时态、语态和一些特殊用法(如外来语、缩写、人名、地名、专业学名、e.g.、i.e.、etc.、et al.等)。
例 2.3.1 Science 论文摘要实例
Science , Vol 276, Issue 5 321, 2037-2039, 27 June 1997.
In Vivo Endoscopic Optical Biopsy with Optical Coherence Tomography
Guillermo J. Tearney, Mark E. Brezinski, Brett E. Bouma, Stephen A. Boppart, Costas Pitris, James F. Southern, James G. Fujimoto
Current medical imaging technologies allow visualization of tissue anatomy in the human body at resolutions ranging from 100 micrometers to 1 millimeter. These technologies are generally not sensitive enough to detect early-stage tissue abnormalities associated with diseases such as cancer and atherosclerosis,which require micrometer-scale resolution.(编者注:以上是描述一般规律用一般现在时)Here,optical coherence tomography was adapted to allow high-speed visualization of tissue in a living animal with a catheter-endoscope 1 millimeter in diameter. This method,referred to as“optical biopsy”was used to obtain cross-sectional images of the rabbit gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts at a 10-micrometer resolution.(编者注:叙述自己的实验及结果用过去时态,被动语态)