（2019 新人教版）高中英语选择性必修一课文翻译Unit1People of AchievementReading and Thinking P2TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE屠呦呦获诺贝尔奖6 October 2015This 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 formalaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health formillions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about600, 000 die from it. Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and isthought 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 December1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955. After she graduated, sheworked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinesegovernment formed a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment formalaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyouwent to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, shebecame the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts tofind traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2, 000 old medicaltexts, and evaluated 280, 000 plants for their medical properties. From thei...
