英语听力:自然百科 诺贝尔奖的历史
时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年
英语课
Al Gore 1 accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with Rajendra Pachauri accepting on behalf of the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change for their work to sound the alarm over global warming.
The Six Nobel Prizes are traditionally awarded on December 10th each year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896. He was a Swedish industrialist 2 to invent dynamite 3 and establish five of the current six prizes in his will.
In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman laureate when she shared half of the physics prize with her husband Pierre. The following year Russian Ivan Pavlov was recognized for his experiment of conditioning a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American recipient 4. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in mediating 5 the end to the Russo-Japanese war. Rudyard Kipling, the author of "the Jungle Book", won the 1907 Nobel Prize in literature. Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions, especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric 6 effect.
In 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming was one of the three men awarded the prize in medicine for the discovery of penicillin 7. Sir Francis Crick won in 1962 with his colleagues for their description of the DNA 8 helix, helping 9 advance our understanding of life. Mother Teresa received the peace prize in 1979 for her work among India’s poor. The Dalai Lama was awarded the peace prize in 1989. He is seen here at a gathering 10 of peace prize winners to mark the 100 anniversary of the award in 2001. In 1990, Soviet 11 leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the peace prize for his aggressive international policies. The following year, Myanmar opposition 12 leader Aung San Suu Kyi was recognized...
n.凝血,血污;v.(动物)用角撞伤,用牙刺破;缝以补裆;顶
- The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
- Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
n.工业家,实业家
- The industrialist's son was kidnapped.这名实业家的儿子被绑架了。
- Mr.Smith was a wealthy industrialist,but he was not satisfied with life.史密斯先生是位富有的企业家,可他对生活感到不满意。
n./vt.(用)炸药(爆破)
- The workmen detonated the dynamite.工人们把炸药引爆了。
- The philosopher was still political dynamite.那位哲学家仍旧是政治上的爆炸性人物。
a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器
- Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
- Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。
调停,调解,斡旋( mediate的现在分词 ); 居间促成; 影响…的发生; 使…可能发生
- So many factors are mediating. 如此众多的因素在起作用。
- The contrast in mediating noted in the sitting room. 客厅中注重了调和中的对比。
adj.光电的,光电效应的
- Photoelectric spectrophotometers give better result.用光电分光光度计能得到较佳结果。
- Einstein also explained a baffling feature of the photoelectric effect.爱因斯坦也解释了光电效应里一个令人困扰的现象。
n.青霉素,盘尼西林
- I should have asked him for a shot of penicillin.我应当让他给我打一针青霉素的。
- Penicillin was an extremely significant medical discovery.青霉素是极其重要的医学发现。
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸
- 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。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.集会,聚会,聚集
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
- 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。
n.反对,敌对
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。