Perhaps the rarest of all cases is that of the famed Curie family of France.

Before broaching the subject of this lecture, I should like to recall that the discoveries of radium and of polonium were made by Pierre Curie in collaboration with me.

在开始讨论这次演讲的话题之前, 我还想回忆一下,镭和钋发现是皮埃尔·居里与我合作完成的.

Curie was knitting a jersey for her little daughter.

居里夫人正为她的小女儿爱兰妮编织毛衣.

This scenario has recently been visualised by researchers at the Institut Curie.

Curie研究所的研究员最近目睹了这一过程.

Madame Curie often said: " We must work hard, and above all we must believe in ourselves. "

居里夫人常说: “ 我们必须努力工作, 而且最重要的是,我们必须对自己有信心. ”

Madame Curie carried through her researches at the cost of her own life.

居礼夫人不惜以生命为代价将研究做到底.

Madame Curie won two Nobel Prizes.

居里夫人两次获得了诺贝尔奖.

Suddenly, I felt that I was a mere intruder; I became even shyer than Madame Curie.

我突然觉得我只不过是一个不速之客; 我感到比居里夫人更羞怯.

A metal called uranium gave off a kind of radiation, which Marie Curie later called radioactivity.

一种叫铀的金属发出一种射线，后来玛丽·居里把这种现象称为放射性。

You may know that Marie Curie is also a woman does not do?

您可知道居里夫人不也是女的吗？

Madame Curie is well known for her discovery of radium.

居里夫人因为发现镭而著名.

Langevin returned to the Sorbonne and obtained his Ph . D . from Pierre Curie in 1902.

朗之万回到了巴黎大学并于1902年在皮埃尔·居里的指导下取得博士学位.

Marie Curie , in a simple, dark evening dress, glanced down the long banquet table.

玛丽·居里身着深色简朴的晚礼服, 扫视了一下那张长长的餐桌.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ( Marie Curie )

生活中没有什么可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西. ( 居里夫人 )

So Marie Curie became the first woman in France to be a university professor.

于是，玛丽亚·居里成为法国任大学教授的第一位女士。

Madame Curie is a great scientist whose name is known all over the world.

居里夫人是一位全世界闻名的伟大科学家.

Madame Curie warned learners not to go too fast.

居里夫人告诫初学者不要图快。

Curie is always used as a surname.

居里经常用于姓氏.

Madame Curie named it polonium in honour of her native country.

居里夫人将它命名为钋,以纪念她的祖国.

For, eight years, Marie Curie worked in cold laboratories with poor equipment.

整整八年，居里夫人在设备简陋、冰冷的实验室里做着实验。

The Curie temperature of the samples were all about 120 ℃.

样品的居里温度也在120℃之间波动.