高中英语人教版2000年高三上01

[07:30.44]钋是用来引爆核弹的.
[07:33.17]Radium,because of its powerful radioactive rays,can go deep into the human body.
[07:37.70]镭因为它有强大的放射性线,能够穿透人们的身体.
[07:42.24]Scientists soon discovered that it could be used as a cure for cancer.
[07:45.82]科学家们很快就发现它能够用来治疗癌症.
[07:49.39]In 1904 Marie and Pierre Curie were given the Nobel Prize for Physics.
[07:53.97]1904年,玛丽和皮埃尔.居里在物理学上获得了诺贝尔奖.
[07:58.54]However,there is also a disadvantage which was not discovered for many years.
[08:02.86]然而,有一个劣势那就是很多年这都没有被发现.
[08:07.18]Radioactive matter is dangerous to work with
[08:09.76]放射性物质是一项很危险的工作.
[08:12.33]because it has a bad effect on the blood.
[08:14.51]因为它对血液有不良影响.
[08:16.69]Pierre and Marie noticed that after years of working with radioactive matter
[08:20.38]皮埃尔和玛丽注意到进行放射性物质工作几年后,
[08:24.06]their bodies ached and their hands suffered too.
[08:26.68]他们的身体以及他们的手都遭受疼痛.
[08:29.31]In fact,radium not only damaged their health
[08:32.20]事实上,镭不但损害了他们的健康,
[08:35.08]but also made the laboratory equipment with which they were working radioactive.
[08:38.91]而且还使他们工作用的实验室设备具有了放射性.
[08:42.74]Three of the Curies' notebooks wereconsidered to be too radioactive to touch
[08:46.21]居里夫妇其中三个笔记本被视为放射性过太强以至不能触摸
[08:49.68]seventy-five years after they were written.
[08:52.02]75后它们被写着.
[08:54.36]In 1906 Pierre died in a road accident.
[08:57.44]1906年皮埃尔死于交通事故.
[09:00.53]Marie was deeply shocked by Pierre's death,but was determined to go on working.
[09:04.65]玛丽对皮埃尔的死受了很大的打击,但是她决定继续工作.
[09:08.78]Soon after the accident,
[09:10.40]交通事故不久后,
[09:12.02]she was given Pierre's post at the University of Paris
[09:14.84]她担任皮埃尔在大学时的岗位,
[09:17.66]as head of the Physics Department
[09:19.74]是巴黎大学物理学部门的领导.
[09:21.82]So Marie Curie became the first woman in France to be a university professor.
[09:25.50]所以在法国玛丽.居里成为大学里面的第一位女教授.
[09:29.18]In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize for her research,
[09:32.62]1911年,在她的研究上获得了第二枚诺贝尔奖.
[09:36.05]the first person in the world to receive two Nobel Prizes.
[09:39.32]世界上第一个拿两次诺贝奖的人.
[09:42.58]After the First World War Madame Curie travelled to the USA
[09:46.15]第一次世界大战后,居里夫人到美国旅行
[09:49.71]where she was received by the President
[09:53.58]and given a gram of radium for her future work.
[09:56.21]总统接见了她并赠送她一克镭支持她将来的工作.
[09:58.83]There were soon two Radium Institutes in the world,
[10:01.35]很快世界上就有两所镭学院了.
[10:03.87]one in Paris and one in Warsaw.
[10:06.35]一所在巴黎,一所在华沙.
[10:08.84]Marie was invited to many countries to give speeches about her work.
[10:11.71]玛丽被邀请到许多国家去做演讲有关她的工作.
[10:14.58]For the last ten years of her life she was almost blind.
[10:17.76]在她生命的最后十年里,她几乎失明.
[10:20.93]The radium with which she had worked for many years
[10:23.41]她在工作中和镭接触了许多年.
[10:25.89]had caused blindness and illness and finally a disease of the blood.
[10:29.22]导致失明和疾病,最后引至血液产生病变.
[10:32.56]She died in Paris at the age of 66.
[10:35.08]她66岁时在巴黎逝世.
[10:37.60]Today she is remembered and admired as a scientist.
[10:40.26]今天人们还记着这一位科学家并钦佩她.
[10:42.93]But she is also remembered for her determination and courage,
[10:45.71]但是也因为她的决心和勇气而被人们记着.
[10:48.49]her willingness to share her knowledge,her interest in women's rights,
[10:52.02]她很乐意地与别人分享她的知识.她对妇女的权利很感兴趣,
[10:55.54]and her medical service during the war.
[10:57.42]在大战之间,她在医学服务上做出了很大的贡献.