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
标签: sss 托福素材
学英语单词
abolitionisms
adiabatic contraction
advanced outfitting
AHZ
AIOP
arrive at sth
bass-reflex encl-osure
Billroth's mixture
Boreda
capitulum fibulae
chandny
chyna
circumflex femoral vein
class book,classbook
commensurable subgroups
crab factory ship
curcumas
decay atom
Delaine Merino
diamanti
elec trostatic accumulator
environmental impact units
explosion engineering
feed water control system
field extension
floating cargo hose
florifications
fogge
fungus cellulose
Gaming sense
genus ancyluss
Glen checked
god-worships
good and bad trade
grasslike
Group of Seven
high-colored
human physiological reaction
ice crystal theory
imitation pearl
intermedius
introductory statement
isolation parameters
Kavousi
Kean University
kicked around
lineation structure
motorhead
mouth capsule
mud jacking
New Carlisle
non aqueous
non-deferred
outbackers
outbawls
over-bright
palaearctic, Palaearctic
paths of connectivity
pedomete
pedontology
phenylmercuric acetate
pipe work diagram
polar moment of inertia of a body
postaccelerating electrode
propane
Pt-carrollite
quarterdecker
ravennas
reporting year
rock-faced
Samarcand
Sanfilippo-Goodsyndrome
self-representations
semievergreen
septic toxemia
smpe
sound proofmaterial
station-keeper
step load acceptance
student-teacher interaction
succinamate
superposed ripple mark
surface potential detector
systems-managers
tam tam
the ball is in someone's court
three-ridge
tiotropium bromide
torne-seke
triscuits
Témacine
unit investment trust
valve head
vandalizer
velocidad
Venae gluteales inferiores
Verrazano, Giovanni da
vertical limb
vexatiousness
Viola betonicifolia
voltage, blocking
water injection hole