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。
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2-iodopyridine
AAFA
Adam7
american-flag
Antarctic hair grass
antiprothrombin
anxiety complex
artificial fertilization
Asdic
azacyclobutadiene
be at an idle end
beat-box
black majority rule
boffola
c-s-p
cabinet ministers
calor internus
cardialgic
carissa macrocarpas
chilophagia
chlorfenidim
circumerration
cleared condition
close buyer
conchoidal curve
die socket
diet high-carbohydrate
dietetically
digestants
edge in with
epoxides
error of perpendidicularity
erythroblastosis fetalis
external auditory passage (or external acoustic meatus)
filtering factor
finish in
fossil power plant
Goritsy
Guadalbullón, R.
head-final
high-head power station
hinged manhole
hyalorhyolite
hyes
in spite of sb.'s beard
infrared autonavigator
isolu
itch lotion
jellabas
Jewson
Karpuzlu
leathery jacket
low volume
major histocompatibility complex(mhc)
mateship
mathematical philosophy
mislocutions
N-Act
near-gravity material
needle shank
off-take main
operating supervisor
parade pattern
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pellet stove
pervestigations
pimeloyl-
plan generation
providing
pultusks
rack car
ranking number
research methods
resident program storage
retrocurvature
ridgeons
rr. musculares (n. iliohypogastrici)
sarus crane
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septic splenomegaly
Service of Arresting Ship Document
short-exposure
signs and symptoms
Skydance
slauen
sodium isoniazide methane sulfonate
stomoblastula
supercow
supra-personal
suspension geometry
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throttle stop
trekschuits
trichloropyrimidine dyes
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Valeramidase
william hogarths
Yanbetsu-gawa
zamponi