高中英语人教版2000年高三上01

[03:51.16]She gave these rays a new name "radioactive".
[03:53.98]她给了这些光线一个新的名字叫"放射性光线"
[03:56.80]One day she made an important discovery.
[03:58.84]一天,她发现了一项很重要的事项.
[04:00.88]There was a certain mineral which was even more radioactive than uranium.
[04:03.96]有一样矿物放射性肯定比铀更强.
[04:07.04]Therefore,she decided,it must contain some other matter
[04:11.90]that no one had yet discovered
[04:13.73]因此,她确定必定有些事物其他人还没有发现.
[04:15.56]In 1898 she discovered the first of these new radioactive minerals,
[04:19.28]1898年她发现了这批新放射性矿物中的第一种物质.
[04:23.00]which she named "polonium" in honour of her motherland Poland
[04:26.19]为了向她的祖国-波兰表示敬意,她指导它命名为"钋",
[04:29.37]and on which she wrote a research paper.
[04:31.56]并写了一篇关于钋的研究论文.
[04:33.74]From then on,Marie and Pierre worked together on their research.
[04:36.56]从那以后,玛丽和皮埃尔在一起工作做他们的研究.
[04:39.38]They devoted all their hours to working in their laboratory.
[04:41.86]他们把所有的时间都放在工作上.
[04:44.34]As months went by,the work seemed endless.
[04:46.86]数月过后,研究看起来好像完成了.
[04:49.38]Marie described her thoughts in words much like this:
[04:51.81]玛丽在描述她的想法大体是这样的:
[04:54.24]"Life is not easy for any of us."
[04:56.22]生活对我们任何一个人都是不容易的.
[04:58.19]We must work,and above all we must believe in ourselves.
[05:01.17]我们必须工作.首先我们必须相信自己.
[05:04.14]We must believe that each one of us is able to do something well,
[05:07.03]我们必须相信我们每一个人都能够把事情做好,
[05:09.92]and that,when we discover what this something is,
[05:12.54]而且,当我们发现这些东西是什么的时候,
[05:15.17]we must work hard at it until we succeed.
[05:17.60]"我们就必须努力干下去直到成功为止."
[05:20.03]One evening in 1902 as she was sitting with Pierre at home,she said to him,
[05:23.76]1902年的一个晚上,她和皮埃尔坐在家里,她对他说,
[05:27.50]"Let's go down to the laboratory again."
[05:29.47]"让我们再去一次实验室."
[05:31.44]It was nine o'clock and they had been there only two hours before.
[05:34.42]那是九点钟了,而且他们仅仅两个小时前还在那.
[05:37.40]They put on their overcoats and went down to the laboratory
[05:39.88]他们穿上他们的外套就向实验室走去.
[05:42.36]As they opened the door on the ground floor,Marie said,
[05:45.25]在他们打开第一层楼门时,玛丽说,
[05:48.13]"Don't light the lamps.Look!"
[05:50.01]"不要开灯.看!"
[05:51.90]On the laboratory bench was a glass container
[05:57.36]from which came a tiny soft light
[05:59.48]在实验室的长椅上有一束微小的光从玻璃容器里面发出来.
[06:01.61]It was what they had been working so hard to find:pure radium.
[06:05.15]那就是他们努力工作的发现:纯净的镭.
[06:08.69]The matter that the Curies had discovered was radium.
[06:11.36]要紧的是居里夫妇已经发现的镭.
[06:14.02]It looked like ordinary salt,
[06:15.99]它看起来好像很普通,
[06:17.97]but was one million times more radioactive than uranium.
[06:21.09]但是它比铀的放射性多一百万倍.
[06:24.21]Its rays could go through every mineral except lead.
[06:26.94]它的光线除了铅之外,能穿过其他每一种矿物.
[06:29.67]In 1903 Marie received her doctor's degree for her study on radioactive matter.
[06:33.50]1903年,玛丽在她的放射性物质学习上取得了博士学位.
[06:37.32]Altogether,between 1899 and 1904 she and Pierre wrote 34 articles about their work
[06:42.40]总而言之,在1899年和1904年之间,她和皮埃尔写了34篇有关他们研究的文章.
[06:47.48]Marie Curie never made money out of her research.
[06:49.97]玛丽.居里从来不在她的研究上赚钱.
[06:52.45]She refused to treat these new discoveries as though they belonged to her,
[06:55.39]所以她不同意把这些新的发现看作是属于自己的东西,
[06:58.32]and instead shared all her knowledge with the whole scientific world.
[07:01.75]而是献出自己的全部知识,供整个科学界共享.
[07:05.17]Lesson 3
[07:09.40]第三课
[07:13.63]1 Reading comprehension
[07:16.01]1 阅读理解
[07:18.39]Madame Curie(2)
[07:20.27]居里夫人
[07:22.15]Polonium and radium were important discoveries.
[07:24.93]钋和镭是重要的发现.
[07:27.71]Polonium is used to set off a nuclear bomb.