白俄罗斯作家获得诺贝尔文学奖
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2015年VOA慢速英语(十)月
AS IT IS 2015-10-09 Belarus Writer Gets Nobel Literature Prize 白俄罗斯作家获得诺贝尔文学奖
Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Nobel Prize committee in Stockholm, Sweden, called her writings “a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Ms. Alexievich has written books on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, the war in Afghanistan and Soviet 1 history.
On Thursday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists for their work on human DNA 2 repair.
On Tuesday, the Nobel Physics prize was awarded to two scientists for their discoveries related to subatomic particles.
The Nobel committee announced the prize winners for medicine to scientists from Ireland, Japan and China on Monday. Their work centered on therapy for parasitic 3 infections and a new drug for the treatment of malaria 4.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday.
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courage – n. the ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous
parasitic – adj. caused by a parasite, an animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant and gets food or protection from it
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
- Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
- Will global warming mean the spread of tropical parasitic diseases?全球变暖是否意味着热带寄生虫病会蔓延呢？
- By definition,this way of life is parasitic.从其含义来说，这是种寄生虫的生活方式。