夏说英语新闻晨读 第161期:诺贝尔医学奖

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The Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on a process known as autophagy, which involves degrading¹ and recycling bits of cells. The prize committee said the Japanese scientist’s experiments “led to a new paradigm² in our understanding of how the cell recycles its content”.

词汇讲解：

Autophagy: 细胞自我吞噬作用
Degrade： 降解
Paradigm: 范例

1 degrading   

丢脸的，有辱人格的

参考例句：

• the inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners 犯人所受的不人道和侮辱性待遇
• inhuman and degrading treatment 不人道的羞辱性对待

2 paradigm   

n.例子，模范，词形变化表

参考例句：

• He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
• Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。