Curie -- unit of radioactivity.
居里：放射性单位。
“Madame Curie is very intelligent, ”observed Albert Einstein, “but she has the soul of a herring.”
“居里夫人很聪明，”阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦说，“但她的灵魂像鲱鱼。”
It was certainly true that the great French physicist, Maria Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934), had little time for social niceties.
这位玛丽亚·斯克沃多夫斯卡·居里(1867-1934)是伟大的法国著名波兰裔物理学家，她确实很少有时间应酬。
She and her scientist husband Pierre (1856-1906) were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 for their discovery of two new chemical elements, polonium (after Marie's native Poland) and radium, but the couple claimed they were too busy to attend the prize-giving in Stockholm.
1903年，她和她的科学家丈夫皮埃尔(Pierre, 1856-1906)因发现两种新的化学元素钋(以玛丽的祖国波兰命名)和镭而获得诺贝尔物理学奖，但这对夫妇声称他们太忙了，无法参加在斯德哥尔摩举行的颁奖仪式。
Even her husband's death in a road accident three years later did not diminish Madame Curie's scientific endeavour. She took over Pierre's chair at the Sorbonne, holding the distinction of being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first female professor at the university.
即使她的丈夫在三年后死于交通事故，也没有削弱居里夫人的科学努力。她继承了皮埃尔在索邦大学的职位，成为第一位获得诺贝尔奖的女性和该大学的第一位女教授。
In 1910, the Nobel committee again honoured Marie with the chemistry prize for her work in isolating pure radium.
1910年，诺贝尔委员会再次授予玛丽化学奖，以表彰她在分离纯镭方面的工作。
She inevitably died of leukemia, brought about by overexposure to radiation. The artificially produced chemical element, curium (Cm), atomic number 96, was named in the Curies’honour.
她不可避免地死于因过度暴露于辐射而引起的白血病。人造的化学元素锔（curium元素符号 Cm），原子序数为96，以居里夫妇的名字命名。
单词：
herring 鲱鱼；鲱鱼肉。niceties /ˈnaɪsəti/礼节，social niceties 应酬。polonium [化学] 钋（一种放射性元素）。radium [化学]镭（88号元素符号 Ra）。
diminish减弱，降低，减少。distinction差别，区分；杰出，卓越；特点；荣誉。leukemia /lu:ˈki:mɪə/ 白血病。