2015年CRI Tu Youyou Receives Nobel Prize in Stockholm
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：2015CRI中国国际广播电台
It was a grand ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
Professor Hans Forssberg explained the work of chief professor Tu Youyou.
"During the 1960s and 70s, Tu Youyou took part in a major Chinese project to develop anti-malarial drugs. When Tu studied ancient literature, she found that the plant Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, recurred 2 in various recipes against fever."
She tested an extract from the plant on infected mice. Some of the malaria 1 parasites 4 died, but the effect varied 5.
So Tu returned to the literature, and in a 1700 year old book she found a method for obtaining the extract without heating up the plant.
The resulting extract was extremely potent 6 and killed all the parasites. The active component 7 was identified and given the name Artemisinin. It turned out that Arteminsinin attacks the malaria parasite 3 in a unique way.
"The discovery of Artemisinin has led to development of a new drug that has saved the lives of millions of people, halving 8 the mortality rate of malaria during the past 15 years. Your discoveries represent a paradigm 9 shift in medicine, which has not only provided revolutionary therapies for patients suffering from devastating 10 parasitic 11 diseases, but also promoted well-being 12 and prosperity for individuals and society."
When asked about how she felt upon hearing the news she had won the prize, Tu Youyou said what she really cared about is how to prevent resistance to this kind of medicine, not the prize itself.
"Because now there is a resistance problem, there is still a lot of work needing to be done. I care about this, I don't care about other things. What to do with the prize, how will that affect me, I haven't thought about it yet. Neither am I really interested in it."
Tu Youyou is the first Chinese woman scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
All the other laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economy also got their diploma during the ceremony.
And late in the evening Tu Youyou and all the other laureates attended a grand Nobel banquet with the Swedish King and more than 1000 guests.
For CRI, this is Chen Xuefei reporting from Stockholm.
- He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
- Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
- Old memories constantly recurred to him. 往事经常浮现在他的脑海里。
- She always winced when he recurred to the subject of his poems. 每逢他一提到他的诗作的时候，她总是有点畏缩。
- The lazy man was a parasite on his family.那懒汉是家里的寄生虫。
- I don't want to be a parasite.I must earn my own way in life.我不想做寄生虫，我要自己养活自己。
- These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的，而与寄生虫无关。
- Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各种各样的寄生虫。
- The forms of art are many and varied.艺术的形式是多种多样的。
- The hotel has a varied programme of nightly entertainment.宾馆有各种晚间娱乐活动。
- The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。
- We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。
- Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
- Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。
- You searched those halving your salary cut your enthusiasm. 你呈现，薪水减半降低了你的任务热情。 来自互联网
- Halving the repeater spacing made it possible to quadruple the bandwidth. 把增音机间隔缩小一半，就能使带宽增加三倍。 来自互联网
- He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
- Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- 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。
- He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
- My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。