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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acetic thickinase
air filltration
Alarsz
anautotomic
angles of extinction
Ash Shurayf
babayan
Bacillus flavus
baring of physiological blind spot
be greedy of love
bepotastine
bigerminal
Blsuc
body odour
book-work
break of slope
busts it
Cantica
central sphere
Chinese rose
chromium tartate
cis-test
climbing shoe
collective side occupation
commission of inquiry
compare register with a
copper shark
cowboy film
culberson
Dayaoshania
DBA (design basis accident)
dispersion induced distortion
ditrichum pallidum (schrad) hamp
Eijsden
elfstone
Elzevir, Bonaventure
esemplastic
ethylene dimerization
etrumeus teres
Eureka radar beacon
exchange of instrument of ratification
extra high pressure mercury vapor lamp
fast printing direct to port
finite description
fossa ovalis
galactic light
global villiage
hemoparasite
holotrichia pubifemorata
hot brine defrost
incompressibility condition
Kafkaesque
lanks
lateral oblongatal branches
lift span
media art
meditullium
Minchinābād
NICHA
non matched data
number for matched loading
on the spur
pellet density
photointerpretive program
pierglass
pluperfection
practical viscosity measurement
program monitoring and diagnosis
refractory cast
rusacovite
sarkoplasm
semi-dominant gene
sentence stresses
sewage disposal work
Shangxi Group
sheet metal screw
slate roof
SLW
sneakier
solenoid operated with manual reset valve
spheroidal earth
spinning jet
static strain aging
striga
stuffbak
substream
tantoniobate
terminal sinus
termination reaction
thematic
thermal power plant site condition
total composition
transportable technology
unlicensed pilot
vena iliacas
venous murmur
ventilator plug
weighted majority decoding
welding stress
wheel shaped flower