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Unit 1 People of Achievement
Reading and Thinking
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Tu Youyou Awarded Nobel Prize
6 October 2015
屠呦呦获贝尔奖
Try to become not a man of success,but try rather to become a man of value.
----Albert Einstein
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucial new treatment for malaria.
本年度的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖已授予屠呦呦(得主之一),她的研究使青蒿素这种至关重要的新型抗疟疾药物得以发现。
诺贝尔生理学或医学奖
被授予…
共同获奖者
whose引导非限制性定语从句
一种治疗…的重要新型疗法
同位语
促使,导致
adj. 至关重要的,关键性的
Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health for millions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600,000 die from it.
青蒿素挽救了成千上万人的生命,改善了很多人的健康状况。全世界每年有2亿多人感染疟疾,其中约60万人死于该种疾病。
成千上万的
adj.改善了的
数百万的
患疟疾
死于
Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100,000 lives a year in Africa alone.
青蒿素成了抗疟疾药物的关键成分,据估计每年仅在非洲就挽救了10万人的性命。
...的重要组成部分
be thought to do 被认为
Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955.
屠呦呦,这位尽职尽责、锲而不舍的科学家1930年12月30日出生于中国宁波,1955年毕业于北京大学医学部(原北京医学院)。
同位语
一名坚定而耐心的科学家
出生于
毕业于
北京大学医学院
After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen.
毕业后,她就职于北京的中国中医研究院。1967年,中国政府成立了一支科学家团队,旨在发现新型抗疟疾疗法,屠呦呦入选首批研究人员。
after引导时间状语从句
中国中医学院
以......为目的
V-ed作后置定语
v. 组织,建立
In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease.
起初,屠呦呦奔赴疟疾更为常见的海南研究疟疾患者。1969年,她在北京成了该项目的负责人,并决定从中医药古方中寻找应对疟疾的传统植物疗法。
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