2024考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day80

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:诺贝尔奖得主谈论当今的病毒学

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I’m Steve Mirsky.“I guess we're in the middle of a sort of a major virology education.”Charles Rice of the Rockefeller University in New York City.“I think that, you know, the field has definitely changed, you know, since the days when I was a graduate student.And I think one of the things that is very reassuring now is really the global response to this pandemic in the sort of academic and clinical and, you know, sort of pharma communities. The rate of progress.”Earlier today, October 5, 2020, Rice was informed that he had won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis C.The identification of the virus has led to tests and treatments for the condition.Rice shared the prize with Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health and Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta.“It took us months and months of toil to sequence a single viral genome.

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这里是科学美国人——60秒科学系列，我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。“我想我们正处于一种主流的病毒学教育之中。”纽约洛克菲勒大学的查尔斯·赖斯。“我认为，你知道，从我还是研究生的日子开始, 这个领域肯定发生了变化。”“我认为现在非常令人欣慰的事情之一是全球对这种流行病的学术和临床以及制药社区的反应。这是进步的速度。”今天早些时候，也就是 2020 年 10 月 5 日，赖斯被告知他因发现导致丙型肝炎的病毒而获得诺贝尔生理学奖或医学奖。病毒的识别导致了可以对这种疾病进行检测和治疗。赖斯与美国国家卫生研究院的哈维·奥尔特和阿尔伯塔大学的迈克尔·霍顿共同获奖。“我们花了好几个月的时间来测序单个病毒基因组。

Now people can do that in a matter of hours.And the rate at which people have been able to make progress on understanding SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 is just spectacular.”Rice spoke this morning on a Web press conference from Rockefeller University.“So I think it’s taught us a lot of things about science in general.If there’s really a pressing problem, we mobilize people all around the world to sort of work on these problems.Really great progress can be made.You know, people would love to have a cure in a week or a vaccine in a week.I mean, that's not feasible, but the speed with which good therapeutics and vaccines will be developed for SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 is going to be spectacular.“And it's, it has a way of, I think it's really sort of changing the way that science is done to really make it more of a community effort rather than something that, many years ago, might have been pursued by a few labs in isolation.So I think the sort of young virologists today just tell this amazing collection of tools and capabilities to understand what’s going on in virus biology and the host response at a level that was just never before possible.

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现在人们可以在几小时内做到这一点。人们在了解SARS-CoV-2和COVID-19方面取得进展的速度非常惊人。”赖斯今早在洛克菲勒大学的网络新闻发布会上发表了讲话。“所以我认为它教会了我们很多关于科学的东西。如果真的有紧迫的问题，我们会动员世界各地的人们来解决这些问题。真的可以取得很大的进步。你知道，人们希望在一周内治愈或在一周内获得疫苗。我的意思是，这是不可行的，但为预防COVID-19，针对SARS-CoV-2开发好的治疗方法和疫苗速度将是惊人的。“它以一种方式，我认为这在某种程度上确实改变了科学研究的方式，使它真正成为一个社区努力的事情，而不是许多年前可能只有几个实验室单独从事的事情。所以我认为今天的年轻病毒学家可以识别这些惊人的工具，以及拥有可以在前所未有的水平上了解病毒生物学和宿主反应如何发生的能力。

“I’m very optimistic on the future of this, and I do hope that maybe the success with hepatitis C and, what I would predict,the sort of eventual success and getting a handle on the current coronavirus pandemic that we face will sort of encourage us to not only recruit more virologists but also just encourage people to study these little troublemakers,because you never know when they're gonna pop up and cause trouble.So it’s worth a small investment.”For Scientific American's 60-second Science. I’m Steve Mirsky.

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“我对这件事的未来非常乐观，我确实希望丙型肝炎取得成功，并且，我的预测是，最终的成功和应对当前我们面临的冠状病毒大流行，将在某种程度上鼓励我们不仅招募更多的病毒学家，而且还鼓励人们研究这些小麻烦制造者，因为你永远不知道它们什么时候会突然出现并造成麻烦。所以这值得一笔小投资。”谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。