时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(六)月


英语课

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau Germany.This will just take a little more time than our usual minute.


Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize in Physiology 1 or Medicine in 2007. On June 27th, he spoke 2 to students about what he learned from his thesis research, which involved developing a new method to measure the osmotic pressures of mixes of proteins:


"Here's my osmotic pressure measurement. And I was rather proud of this method. And I published it with great delight. This paper has a record, you know: nobody ever quoted it. And nobody ever used the method again. And I didn't use the method again. So I have to ask you, what was the point of it all? Well, the answer is really a very serious answer. The answer is I learned to do good science. But it didn't matter what I did when I was learning to do good science. So it doesn't matter what you do when you're doing a thesis, you see. But it's very important that you enjoy it. Because if you don't enjoy it, you won't do a good job and you won't learn science. So all of this comes around to the fact that if you don't enjoy what you're doing, ask your advisors 4 to let you do something else. And if your advisor 3 won't do that, there's another solution: change your advisor."


Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60-Second Science, from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting I'm Steve Mirsky.



1 physiology
n.生理学,生理机能
  • He bought a book about physiology.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in physiology.他因生理学方面的建树而被授予诺贝尔奖。
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
4 advisors
n.顾问,劝告者( advisor的名词复数 );(指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
  • The governors felt that they were being strung along by their advisors. 地方长官感到他们一直在受顾问们的愚弄。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • We will consult together with advisors about her education. 我们将一起和专家商议她的教育事宜。 来自互联网
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acid bottle inclinometer
advertise a reward
aerobic retting
allowable soil pressure
antmire
artificial oviduct
asymptotic characteristic
audited volume of transactions
bangweulu swp.
beta-amyloid
blast protection
bus boy
calorimeter of openflow system
click pitch
copper tape
cosmetologists
councillings
Covenant of the League of Nations
crankcases
daily cash balance book
damage control bills
data filtering
delivery seal
development fog
doba
downdraught strand cooling
easy processing channel
electron cyclotron oscillation
Europort
fix-point induction method
fluxions
frazy
fritigern
generic drug
go the way of the dodo
grip-and-grin
Habenaria reniformis
Half ahead!
high performance communication system
honey bell
honeybaked
imprisonment of resonance radiation
international trade multiplier
ISCAD
Lepturus
liquid-vapo(u)r interface
Lysi
Maroboduus
Mary Leontyne Price
meat floss
mechanical stop motion
medialising
metrical operation
moon glow
myburgh
neonatal enucleation
non-forfeiture option
non-spillable
nonadiabatic change
over slept
overall thermal efficiency
overutilized
parietal crest
past expression
paste brushes
permeability-reducing agent
pick up trucks
plated through hole
pole bacteria
polyglanduar
pre-value claims
propyl cinnamate
psittacinum
rationalisms
reef drive
Sans-Serif font
Selukos
shelf-type relay
Silverdalen
single-vane actuator
ski-gear
snap brim
Sněžné
stenner
stonking
styloconic sensilla
tallant
Temirlanovka
thermojunction type
Thermopsis alpina
tive
tube conveyor
turn-over form
two leading shoe brake
vectorial double product
Vimianzo
Wabigoon L.
white-light holography
WMED
woolage
woollen fleece
z marker