时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(十)月


英语课

 name a famous female scientist. If you said "Marie Curie," you’re not alone. In fact, a lot of people can’t think of a single other example. Well, England's Royal Society is fixin’ to rectify 1 that. On Friday, October 19th, it’s sponsoring a Wiki-editing marathon for articles about women in science.


 
Wikipedia is the go-to source for information on pretty much everything. But its coverage 2 is a little light when it comes to the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and math. So the Royal Society is looking for volunteers with wi-fi and a bit of Wiki knowhow to create or enhance entries on female scientists.
 
Suggestions include Lilian Bland 3, the first woman to build and fly her own aircraft; Martha Ludwig, who helped solve the first protein crystal structure done in the US; and Barbara Crawford Johnson, the only woman to serve on the NASA team that engineered the moon landing.
 
You can take part in the effort using Twitter. The hashtag is #WomenSciWP. That’s women-S-C-I-W-P. So give Marie Curie a well-earned rest and help other women in science get the wiki-recognition they deserve.

1 rectify
v.订正,矫正,改正
  • The matter will rectify itself in a few days.那件事过几天就会变好。
  • You can rectify this fault if you insert a slash.插人一条斜线便可以纠正此错误。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 bland
adj.淡而无味的,温和的,无刺激性的
  • He eats bland food because of his stomach trouble.他因胃病而吃清淡的食物。
  • This soup is too bland for me.这汤我喝起来偏淡。
学英语单词
accumulational relief
action sequence diagram
announce booth
ANZUS,Anzus
arm corp.
Ascarididae
automatic pilot control unit
bave
bespawled
Bjorkelangen
blastoporal canal
boat rowlock
bomb-ketch
bound off
brent knoll
business location
business result
buzz-bomb
centre hole lap
chronological timescale
ciest
clout-shoe
cold mould
confarreated
conjured up
coordinate vector
Cornhill-on-Tweed
data tape program
deprisure
drag rudder
DW method
emergency signalling
equilibrates
evaporated cooling system
expend in
family house
Faux Bubba
Flatey
fluctuable
gateway discovery protocol
genus Sundacarpus
get a hold of oneself
goose neck bracket
Green Swamp
hardles
hartite
here's to
hirschhom
humorings
just perceptible noise
Kitaraka
ladytron
legena
lippmanns
liquid salt bath nitriding
LRASM
metal powder magnet
middlebreaker sweep bottom
mortgage middleman
Muhammadābād
national measurement standard
neighbouring region
norsolorinic
obligation arbitration
osteogenic action
osterbrock
ovulability
payback reciprocal method
permeablility magnetic material
Phendextro
phosphowolframic acid
pizzaboy
planetary exploration
points of resistance force
polioencephalitis
puppy dog eyes
put an opera on the stage
reaffect
rigid cylinder
ring twisting
second steel sheet
selected track
self-discoveries
South Andaman
sportivest
stat padding
steatornithidaes
studded
sugarloaf sea
sulfur ours
summonest
sure-fire current
technical approach
thyreoglandular adenoma
transposable
turn round and round
under-fringe
vertebral arteries
vilakkus
well borer
you are my sunshine
zoaria