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1、Unit 4 Force of NatureBarbara Goldsmith1.While I was a teenager growing up in New Rochelle, New York, I had up on my bulletin board a photo of Marie Curie sitting under an elm tree, her arms wrapped around her daughters, two-year-old Eve and nine-year-old Irene. I didnt know very much about Curie be
2、yond the basics: She and her husband had discovered radioactivity. She was the first person to win two Nobel prizes. She was brilliant, single-minded, a legend. I was just a girl with little direction, more drawn to words and made-up stories than to formulas and lab experiments.2.Looking back, I thi
3、nk I admired that photo so much, not because of Marie Curie and what she stood for but because she seemed so exotic or maybe because of how her arms encircled her girls. My own mother lay in the hospital, recovering from a grave injury in a car crash. I wanted her to hold me, but she couldnt. So, in
4、stead, I idolized Marie, who in my mind became the strongest and most capable woman in the world.3.Like any girls fantasy, mine contained at least a shred of truth. Marie Curies own daughters grew into accomplished women in their own right, though their mother was obsessively engaged in her research
5、 before they were born. Curie was what we might today call a super-competent multi-tasker: Her work revolutionized the study of atomic energy and radioactivity, and shes one of a pitiful few female scientists whom schoolchildren ever study. Also she was a woman driven by passions, fighting battles m
6、uch of her life with what a doctor now would probably diagnose as severe depression. In the end, her most brilliant discovery proved fatal for both her and her husband.4.When Curie was 10 years old, in 1878, her mother died of tuberculosis. The Polish girl then known as Manya Sklodowska carried on w
7、ith her schoolwork as if nothing had happened, but for months shed find places to hide so she could cry her eyes out.5.At age 18, she landed a job as governess to a wealthy family near Warsaw. She wound up falling in love with Casimir Zorawski, an accomplished student of 19 with whom she shared a lo
8、ve of nature and science. But when Casimir announced that he and Manya wanted to marry, his father threatened to disinherit him. She was beneath his station, poor, a common nursemaid. Definitely no. Four years dragged by. Finally, Manya told Casimir, If you cannot decide, I cannot decide for you. In
9、 what still seems to me a remarkable act of courage, Manya then gathered her meager savings and took a train to Paris, where she changed her name, enrolled at the Sorbonne and walked into history.6.In 1893, she became the first woman to earn a degree in physics at the Sorbonne. If you have ever seen
10、 the 1943 film Madame Curie, you know the broad brush strokes of her early experiments to find a mysterious, hidden new element. Theres a scene in which actress Greer Garson, as Marie, stirs a boiling vat, her face glistening with sweat. Late at night, Marie and her husband, Pierre, enter the lab to
11、 see a tiny luminous stain congealed in a dish. Oh, Pierre! Could it be? exclaims Marie as tears roll down her cheeks. Yes, this was it radium!7.The reality was a lot grittier and a lot less romantic. Marie and Pierre, whom she married in 1895, did indeed work side by side late into the night. But t
12、heir lab was so shabby and dank that their daughter Irene, at age three, called it that sad, sad place. And one prominent scientist said that had he not seen the worktable, he would have thought he was in a stable.8.In time, the Curies became world famous, especially after they won a Nobel Prize in
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