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1、China wins first Nobel in medicine Reprinted from China DailyTu Youyou became Chinas first Nobel laureate in medicinelrt; 荣誉的 China has its first Nobel Prize in Medicine. And 84-year-old TuYouyou said she was not surprised to get it. I learned about it from the TV news,” she told Qianjiang Evening N

2、ews on Monday evening. A little unexpected, but also not quite surprised. This is not my personal achievement, but an award to all Chinese scientists. We worked on this together for decades, so the prize shouldnt be a surprise. Half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Tu for de

3、veloping a drug that fights malaria, and the other half was awarded to to William Campbell, an Irish-born researcher who did his work in the U.S.,and Satoshi Omura of Japan for discovering therapies against infections caused by roundworm parasites. The winners will share an award of $960,000.malaria

4、mlern. 内科 疟疾；瘴气roundworm 蛔虫parasitespr,sat寄生虫 Tu discovered Artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced the death rate of malaria patients, and saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel Priz

5、e in physiology or medicine, said on Monday.The Assembly said that discoveries that help fight parasitic diseases are crucial because those diseases affect the worlds poorest populations and represent a huge barrier to improving human health”.artemisinin ,tmisnnn. 青蒿素（抗疟药）Assemblysembln. 装配；集会，集合Kar

6、olinska Institute卡罗林斯卡医学院 In the 1960s, the main treatments for malaria were chloroquine and quinine, but they were proving increasingly ineffective. In 1969, Tu started to chair a government project aimed at eradicating malaria. She and her colleagues experimented with 38 extracts in 2,000 candidat

7、e recipes before they finally succeeded in obtaining the pure substance Qinghaosu, later known as Artemisinin, which became the standard regimen for malaria in the World Health Organizations catalog of essential chloroquineklr()kwin; kl-n. 药 氯喹（疟疾特效药的一种） quinine n. 奎宁，金鸡纳碱（疟疾特效药的一种 eradicaterdketvt.

8、 根除，根绝；消灭 extractsekstrktvt. 提取；摘录；榨取 pure adj. 纯的；纯粹的 regimenredmnn. 医 养生法；生活规则；政体；支配 catalogktln. 目录；登记vt. 登记； More than 40 years after her findings the prize finally came,said Cao Hongxin, the head of the science and technology department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a former director of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Its an overdue honor for Tu and the worlds recognition of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Now we have Tu winning the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; We should