VOA慢速英語: 進行大腦研究的三位科學家獲得諾貝爾獎（雙語）

Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Brain Research
進行腦部研究的三位科學家獲得諾貝爾獎
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News.
這里是美國之音慢速英語科學報道。
American-born British Scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in medicine. They discovered how the brain knows the body’s location.
出生在美國的英國科學家約翰·奧基夫、挪威的梅·布里特·莫澤和愛德華·莫澤贏得了諾貝爾醫(yī)學獎，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了大腦是如何知道身體的位置的。
The Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced the prize on Monday. According to the assembly, the prize winners answered an important question about the brain: how does it draw a kind of map of the space we are in? This map helps us move through our environment.
周一，在瑞典的卡羅林斯卡研究所進行的諾貝爾大會上，宣布了該獎項。根據(jù)大會內(nèi)容，該諾貝爾獎獲得者們回答了一個關于我們大腦的重要問題：大腦是如何繪制一個關于我們所處空間的地圖的？該地圖幫助我們在我們的周圍環(huán)境中移動。
Professor John O'Keefe is the director of the Sainsbury Well come Center in Neural Circuits and Behavior at University College London. He discovered the mapping ability in 1971. He noticed that certain nerve cells started working in a rat's brain when it was in one part of a room. When the rat was in a different part of the room, other nerve cells were activated in another part of the brain.
教授約翰·奧基夫是英國倫敦大學學院以神經(jīng)環(huán)路和行為為研究對象的塞恩斯伯里研究中心的主任。他在1971年發(fā)現(xiàn)了映射能力。他注意到到一只老鼠處于一個房間的某個部位時，該老鼠的某些神經(jīng)細胞就開始工作。當該老鼠在該房間的其他不同部位時，該老鼠大腦另一部分的神經(jīng)細胞則被激活。
The other winners, Edvard and May-Britt Moser, are married to each other. They have worked together since they were college students. They found another nerve cell in a rat's brain that creates a grid system. This grid connects with the mapping cells to make up the brain's positioning system.
另外的兩名獲獎者，愛德華和梅·布里特·莫澤是一對夫妻。自他們還是大學生時，他們就在一起工作研究。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)一只老鼠大腦中的另一個神經(jīng)細胞創(chuàng)建了一個網(wǎng)格系統(tǒng)。該網(wǎng)格和映射細胞聯(lián)系在一起，構成大腦的定位系統(tǒng)。
Other research suggests that humans have the same kinds of brain cells.
其他研究表明，人類有相同類型的大腦細胞。
The Nobel panel says the discoveries have opened new ways to understand other mental activities. The work of the award winners helps us to understand more about memory, thinking and planning.
諾貝爾委員會稱，這些發(fā)現(xiàn)開創(chuàng)了理解其他精神活動的新方法。獲獎者們的研究成果可以幫助我們更好更多的理解大腦中關于記憶、思考和計劃的知識。
The award comes with a $1.1 million prize. Half goes to Professor O’Keefe. May-Britt and Edvard Moser will divide the other half.
該獎項獲得者們可以獲得110萬美元的獎金，奧基夫教授獲得其中一半，愛德華夫婦將會獲得另一半。
On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize in physics will be awarded, followed by the chemistry prize on Wednesday, literature on Thursday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. I’m Mario Ritter.
周二，將會頒布諾貝爾物理學獎，周三是諾貝爾化學獎，周四是諾貝爾文學獎，周五是諾貝爾和平獎。我是馬里奧·里特。