2017年托福写作热门素材运用讲解二十二

2017年托福写作热门素材运用讲解二十二

　　托福写作素材模板：玛丽·居里

　　素材段落

　　Marie Curie was so passionate about her love of science that she was able to overcome numerous adverse conditions which hindered her work and studies. She believed in the pursuit of science, for science’s sake, and retained this enthusiasm throughout her life. As a scientist, she never patented her work, leaving the door open for other scientists to build on her work during her life and after her death. During World War I, she was so passionate about the therapeutic benefits of her discoveries that, with the help of her daughter Irene, she helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to identify fractures and locate shrapnel and bullets. In honor of her unparalleled contribution to the scientific world, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She was also the first person ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

　　单词和词组

　　adverse 不利的、敌对的

　　=unfavorable, hostile, malicious

　　✎ under adverse conditions

　　✎ exert an adverse effect/impact on …

　　for one’s sake 为了…的利益

　　✎ for the country’s sake

　　✎ for the sake of safety

　　retain 保持=keep, withhold

　　✎ retain the right to …

　　✎ retain an effective control over …

　　unparalleled 无比的、前所未有的

　　=incomparable, unmatched, unrivaled

　　✎ an unparalleled success