时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

It's one of the world's most exclusive clubs Peter Doherty joined in 1996, sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine. Few make it, which is why the title of his memoir 1, The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize raised a few eyebrows 2.

So how do you win the Noble Prize?

You get lucky, yeah, well you work hard for a long time, you, you look very hard of what's coming up in front of you, the data that you see, and you are instructed by what you see there. And, and you need a bit of luck, too.

The Australian scientist never thought he was on a path to the highest honor in science. Doherty first trained as a veterinarian, but found his calling in the mysterious field of infectious diseases.

My nominee 3 is Zinkernagel .

He teamed up with another young professor Rolf Zinkernagel. and made in an world-winning discovery almost by accident.

We were doing some experiments to look at a particular question and then, then we suddenly got this very unexpected result, realized that it was probably extremely significant straightaway.

The pair had cracked the code of T cells which Doherty calls the " hit man " of the immune system. How they fight infected cells and leave healthy ones alone?

Firstly, It was so, so unorthodox, and so against the accepted wisdom that people didn't really even grasp what we are saying .

Experiments by others confirmed the findings and expanded on them, leading to new vaccines 4 and advances in the fight against cancer. Nobel came calling 2 decades later and it changed Doherty's life. There were endless accolades 5, even having his face on a postage stamp.

Well, you get a fair amount of money when you win it, you get invited to very nice meetings and very nice places, but you quickly find that you can't handle all that and you tend to go on need to the things, when you think you 're gonna all learn something new, or you gonna be doing something useful.

Most of the professor's time is devoted 6 to his research labs, one in Australia and one in the US. Doherty credits his success to curiosity and a willingness to question, something he tries to impress upon his proteges and anyone asking for his advice.

From us if we are not gonna win the Nobel Prize, but, but people can be winners I think, to have a satisfactory life, you wanna look within yourself, and trying find out, well, what is it that I can contribute.

And sometimes that contribution can end up being much bigger than expected.

James McDonald, CNN, Melbourne , Australia.



1 memoir
n.[pl.]回忆录,自传;记事录
  • He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
  • In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中,她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。
2 eyebrows
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
3 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
4 vaccines
疫苗,痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。
5 accolades
n.(连结几行谱表的)连谱号( accolade的名词复数 );嘉奖;(窗、门上方的)桃尖拱形线脚;册封爵士的仪式(用剑面在肩上轻拍一下)
  • Unlike other accolades for literature which tend to value style or experimentation. 有别于其他偏重风格活实验性的文学奖项。 来自互联网
  • Build your trophy room while amassing awards and accolades. 建立您的奖杯积累奖项和荣誉。 来自互联网
6 devoted
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
学英语单词
acute transformation
antipiriculin
approach.
attente
benzoxazinoids
biased downward
Bier's hyperaemia
bilirubinstatanalyzer
bombycillidaes
Bourdon-type pressure bomb
cad-cam
chemically modified cotton
chitinous layer
chromium oxide ceramics
component element
consumer's price index
copremesis
cordylite
countermeasure sonar
cruiseliner
dropping cut slice
electrically-welded structure
Embequin
Epigonichthys
equal thickness interferometer
evernias
facists
falsification of public seal
follieri
foot pedals
four-point assay
friabilities
genus Ascophyllum
get fame
Grenville Chan.
groundfishing
half-rollings
Harold Hart Crane
Hutan Melintang
hypeman
in possession of sth
inward variation
Kp index
live hard
lt.cdr
mean gage static pressure
mean section
micropoecilic texture
moncreiffs
mould board
nan-nan
neodymium
neoxanthops quadrilobatus
ngbs
nodon valve
octal format
opposing faction
overflow handling
oxybetaine
penicillium expansum link
phanerophyta scandentia
phymatopsis tenuipes ching
play list
pogonatum perichaetiale
positively oriented curve
propagandise
prunus domesticas
quadruple bluffed
radiant exposure
recording format
reploch
research instrument
residual heat removal condenser
round piece of work
same place
scruto
Seeshaupt
semievergreen
separation of bone
Shatner commas
silk cut
single leaf spring
single tonguing
spare machine
start on sth
summoning of parliament
system of joint
taper caliper
taxest
technical identification
trypanocidal drugs
ulan bators
uneclipsed
upsetter forging press
value attributable to expectancy
viscose cord fabric
wafra
water-land transshipment
work specification
Xuyen Moc
zehabus
Zelenga