BBC 英语学习 News Review 新冠肺炎疫苗科学家获诺贝尔奖

A Nobel Prize for

the Covied vaccine scientists. This is news review from BBC, learning English.

I'm Beth, and I'm Phil. Make sure you watch to the end to land the

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Now the story The scientists whose research made some of the covied vaccines possible have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Kathleen Caraco and Drew whiteman's research means that something called m RNA can be used to make vaccines.

Carrico had previously been criticized by fellow academics who felt that her approach would not work.

You've been looking at the headlines.

What's the vocabulary? We have laid foundation Maverick and spurred This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have a look now at our 1st headline.

This is from the Washington Post.

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to scientists who laid foundation for Messenger RNA vaccines.

As this headline says, the Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to the scientists whose research led to the development of certain covied vaccines.

Let's look at laid foundations, though.

Isn't foundations something to do with building?

Yes, a foundation is the bit that's at the bottom of the building, often under the ground, and it's the bit that you build or lay 1st, and then everything else is built on top of it.

Okay, but this headline isn't about buildings.

So are there other things that we can use the word foundation for?

Well, we use this idea that a foundation supports other things, So, e.g., when you're learning a language, if you know grammar very well, then that's a good foundation to learn the rest of the language.

It supports learning the rest of the language.

Okay, so the research that these scientists carried out supported the development of the m RNA vaccines.

It laid the foundation for them.

Now, beth, could you say that visiting the BBC Learning English website every day lays a great foundation for learning English?

Do you know what? I think you could and you should.

Okay, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from RIFI.

Cataline Caraco, scientific Maverick, who paved way for M-R and a vaccine.

This headline is about one of the scientists, cataline Caraco, who paved the way.

That means she made this vaccine possible.

Uh, we are going to look at maverick.

That's how she is described in the headline.

Can you tell us about it?

PHIL Yes. We use the word maverick to describe people who think and do things that no one else would even think of doing.

Um, beth, you a bit of a maverick?

Well, phil, you right. These scripts, it takes you a long time.

You come in, you learn your lines.

So does Neil. I just come in and say What I want.

I don't need your scripts. You are a maverick, beth.

Now, kathleen Carrico is being described as a maverick here because originally, lots of other scientists didn't believe that her approach would work.

That's right. Okay, let's look at that again.

Work. Next headline, please. This is from CBC, scientists who spurred development of m RNA coded 19 vaccines win Nobel Medicine Prize.

Now we're going to land the word spurred.

Isn't there something to do with horses?

Yes, it is. Um, we've all seen cowboy films, right?

Think about what the cowboys wear.

Particularly. Think about their boots. Now, on the back of their boots, they have these spiky things called spurs.

And cowboys used to use these to make their horses go faster by hurting them.

That doesn't sound very nice. I don't think it is.

But nowadays we use this word spurs to mean encourage or make something happen.

We can also say that something spurs something on, and that's afraid.

Now, that reminds me. I've just been to India, and I had the most incredible food, and it's really spurred me to try some new recipes, or spurred me on to try some new recipes.

Beth, you're gonna have to bring some of that in for us to try, I think.

Um? In the original story, the research that the scientists did spurred on the development of new vaccines.

They made it or encouraged it happen.

That's right, OK, let's look at that again.

We've had late foundations, made something possible.

Maverick, not like anyone else spared, encouraged to happen.

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