BBC初级口语:诺贝尔奖得主高锟Chinese Nobel Winner
Background: 2009年的诺贝尔物理学奖授予了华人科学家高锟,以及两名美国科学家韦拉德-博伊尔 (Willard Boyle) 和乔治-史密斯 (George Smith)。瑞典科学院说这三位科学家对光导纤维在通讯上应用的基本原理和半导体成像器件的研究奠定了发展当代网络社会的基础。
【文本】
The Nobel Foundation said the work of all three of this year's physics laureates was groundbreaking. Without their research, modern communications technology including digital cameras and the internet might not exist.
Charles Kao was born in Shanghai but worked in Britain where in 1966 he developed the idea of transmitting light over long distances using optical glass fibres. Today these fibre cables carry much of the world's data and telephony traffic.
The other half of the prize has been shared between Willard Boyle and George Smith, who invented a device to capture images called a charge-coupled device or CCD. This has become the electronic eye of digital cameras and is used in many medical applications as well.
Willard Boyle explained how his invention had impacted him personally:
"I guess the most important part of our invention that affected me personally was when the Mars probe was on the surface of Mars and it used a camera like ours, and it would not have been possible without our invention. And we saw for the first time the surface of Mars.
I was sitting in my own little house and here I could move around on the surface of Mars and see the little stones there, and what it was all about. Very exciting."
The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
【口语突破】
physics laureates
物理奖得主
groundbreaking
突破性的
communications technology
通讯科技
transmitting
传
optical glass fibres
光纤
data
数据
telephony traffic
电话流量
device
仪器
charge-coupled device
电荷耦合器件
applications
应用
impacted
影响
probe
探测器
ceremony
仪式
anniversary
周年纪念
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n. 装置,设计,策略,设备
probe[prəub]想一想再看
n. 探针,探测器,调查,查究
v. 用探针测
因为有problem所以probe。 affected[ə'fektid]
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adj. 受影响的,受感动的,受疾病侵袭的 adj. 做
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n. 发明,发明物,虚构,虚构物
ceremony['seriməni]想一想再看
n. 典礼,仪式,礼节,礼仪
foundation[faun'deiʃən]想一想再看
n. 基础,根据,建立
n. 粉底霜,基
found(v 建立;使有根据)作为词根表示:底部 capture['kæptʃə]
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vt. 捕获,俘获,夺取,占领,迷住,(用照片等)留存<
联想记忆X单词capture联想记忆:cap抓-逮捕
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