VOA慢速英语: 进行大脑研究的三位科学家获得诺贝尔奖（双语）

Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Brain Research
进行脑部研究的三位科学家获得诺贝尔奖
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News.
这里是美国之音慢速英语科学报道。
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.
出生在美国的英国科学家约翰·奥基夫、挪威的梅·布里特·莫泽和爱德华·莫泽赢得了诺贝尔医学奖，他们发现了大脑是如何知道身体的位置的。
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，在瑞典的卡罗林斯卡研究所进行的诺贝尔大会上，宣布了该奖项。根据大会内容，该诺贝尔奖获得者们回答了一个关于我们大脑的重要问题：大脑是如何绘制一个关于我们所处空间的地图的？该地图帮助我们在我们的周围环境中移动。
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.
教授约翰·奥基夫是英国伦敦大学学院以神经环路和行为为研究对象的塞恩斯伯里研究中心的主任。他在1971年发现了映射能力。他注意到到一只老鼠处于一个房间的某个部位时，该老鼠的某些神经细胞就开始工作。当该老鼠在该房间的其他不同部位时，该老鼠大脑另一部分的神经细胞则被激活。
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.
另外的两名获奖者，爱德华和梅·布里特·莫泽是一对夫妻。自他们还是大学生时，他们就在一起工作研究。他们发现一只老鼠大脑中的另一个神经细胞创建了一个网格系统。该网格和映射细胞联系在一起，构成大脑的定位系统。
Other research suggests that humans have the same kinds of brain cells.
其他研究表明，人类有相同类型的大脑细胞。
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.
诺贝尔委员会称，这些发现开创了理解其他精神活动的新方法。获奖者们的研究成果可以帮助我们更好更多的理解大脑中关于记忆、思考和计划的知识。
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.
该奖项获得者们可以获得110万美元的奖金，奥基夫教授获得其中一半，爱德华夫妇将会获得另一半。
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，将会颁布诺贝尔物理学奖，周三是诺贝尔化学奖，周四是诺贝尔文学奖，周五是诺贝尔和平奖。我是马里奥·里特。