(
2019
新人教版)高中英语选择性必修一课文翻译
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Unit1
People of Achievement
Reading and Thinking
P2
TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
屠呦呦获诺贝尔奖
6 October 2015
This year
’
s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu
Youyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucial
new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives,
and has led to improved health
for millions of people. Over 200 million people
around
the
world
get
malaria
each
year,
and
about
600,
000
die
from
it.
Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to
save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone.
今年的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予了屠呦呦
(
共同获奖者
)
,她的研究促使了青蒿素的
发现。这是一种至关重要的治疗疟疾的新疗法。青蒿素挽救了数十万人的生命,并改善了
数百万人的健康状况。全世界每年有超过
2
亿人罹患疟疾,约
60
万人死于疟疾。青蒿素
已成为治疗疟疾的重要组成部分,据认为仅在非洲一年就能挽救
10
万人的生命。
Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on
30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955.