VOA慢速英語：谷歌紀念美國首位原住民女工程師

Google Honors First Native American Woman Engineer

谷歌紀念美國首位原住民女工程師

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The search engine Google celebrated on Thursday what would have been the 110th birthday of the first Native American woman engineer. Google honored Mary Ross with a special Google Doodle on its homepage.

谷歌搜索引擎周四紀念了美國第一位原住民女工程師誕辰110周年。谷歌在其主頁上為瑪麗·羅斯(Mary Ross)做了一個特殊的谷歌徽標涂鴉。

Ross was born on August 9, 1908, in the state of Oklahoma. She was the great-granddaughter of John Ross, the longest-serving chief of the Cherokee Nation.

羅斯于1908年8月9日出生在俄克拉荷馬州。她是切諾基部落在任時間最長的酋長約翰·羅斯(John Ross)的曾孫女。

Her work is considered critical to the early stages of the age of space travel.

她的成就被認為對太空旅行時代的早期階段至關重要。

Ross showed special abilities in math and science from an early age. As a student, she developed an interest in aviation, or the practice of flying aircraft. She went on to earn a master's degree in mathematics from Colorado State Teachers College -- now called the University of Northern Colorado.

羅斯從小就在數(shù)學和科學方面展現(xiàn)出特殊能力。作為一名學生，她對航空產(chǎn)生了興趣。她在科羅拉多州立師范學院，也就是現(xiàn)在的北科羅拉多大學獲得了數(shù)學碩士學位。

During World War II, Ross began working for the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as a mathematician. There, she was urged to complete work in aeronautical engineering. She earned a special certification in the field from the University of California - Los Angeles in 1949.

在二戰(zhàn)期間，羅斯作為數(shù)學家開始為洛克希德飛機公司工作。在那里，她被要求完成航空工程的工作。她于1949年在該領域獲得了加州大學洛杉磯分校的特別證書。

Ross was later chosen to join Lockheed's top-secret Skunk Works team that worked on aircraft designs. The name refers to a group that is permitted to work independently on advanced projects. She was the only female engineer among the team's 40 members.

羅斯后來被選中加入洛克希德公司最秘密的臭鼬工作團隊，該團隊致力于飛行器設計。該名稱是指被允許獨立從事高級項目的團隊。她是該團隊40名成員中唯一的女工程師。

Early on, she researched defense systems. By the late 1950s, her work centered on satellites and a series of space rockets called Agenda. The rockets were extremely important in the 1960s during the Apollo moon program.

早期她研究了防御系統(tǒng)。到20世紀50年代后期，她的工作集中于衛(wèi)星以及一系列被稱為Agenda項目的太空火箭上。這些火箭在上世紀60年代阿波羅登月計劃期間非常重要。

Ross also helped develop early design ideas for space travel between planets, including flyby space flights to study Venus and Mars.

羅斯還幫助開發(fā)了行星間太空旅行的早期設計理念，包括研究金星和火星的飛越航天任務。

Ross retired from Lockheed in 1973. But she continued to give talks at high schools and colleges to encourage more women and Native Americans to study engineering.

羅斯于1973年從洛克希德公司退休。但她繼續(xù)在高中和大學進行演講，以激勵更多女性和美國原住民學習工程學。

Mary Ross died in 2008, a few months before her 100th birthday.

羅斯于2008年在她百歲生日前的幾個月去世。

Many celebrated Ross' life on social media. The National Science Foundation wrote on Twitter Thursday, "engineers like Mary Ross are an inspiration to women everywhere. Women and minorities continue to face challenges and break through barriers in engineering."

很多人在社交媒體上紀念了羅斯的一生。美國國家科學基金會周四在推特上表示：“羅斯這樣的工程師激勵了世界各地的女性。女性和少數(shù)民族仍然面臨挑戰(zhàn)并且需要突破工程學的障礙。”

Scientists on Twitter wrote that Thursday's Doodle introduced them to Mary Ross for the first time.

推特上的科學家們周四寫道，周四的谷歌徽標涂鴉首次向他們介紹了羅斯。

Twitter user Aaron Perez, for example, wrote: "Mary Ross was an engineer who pioneered in the field of satellites. I never would [have] known if it wasn't for the doodle. Women engineers deserve more recognition."

例如，推特用戶Aaron Perez寫道：“羅斯是一位在衛(wèi)星領域處于領先地位的工程師。如果不是谷歌徽標涂鴉，我永遠不會知道這些。女性工程師應該得到更大認可。”

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I'm Lucija Millonig.

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