2012年考研英语背景知识介绍

材料一：Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

英语一阅读理解Text3文章出处：The Evolution of Credibility

Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: Nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war.

纳扎波尔蒂·圣捷尔吉·阿尔伯特（匈牙利语：Nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert；1893年9月16日－1986年10月22日）是一位匈牙利生理学家。他因“与生物燃烧过程有关的发现，特别是关于维生素C和延胡索酸的催化作用”而获得了1937年的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。他在第二次世界大战参与抵抗纳粹德国运动，战后投入匈牙利政治。1947年共产党执政后移居美国，于国立卫生研究院从事关于癌症的科学研究工作。

材料二：In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim – a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

英语一阅读理解Text3文章出处：The Evolution of Credibility

Annette C. Baier (née Stoop) (born 1929) is a well-known moral philosopher and Hume scholar, focusing in particular on Hume's moral psychology. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh, having moved there from Carnegie Mellon University. She retired to her native Dunedin, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Otago. She is also well known for her contributions to feminist philosophy and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars.

Annette C. Baier（生于1929年）是一个著名的道德哲学家以及休谟学学者，她的长期专注于对于休谟道德心理学的研究。在她离开卡内基梅陇大学以后，她人生的大多数时间里她都在匹兹伯格大学任教。她退休后回到了新西兰的Dunedin，在这里她从Otago大学毕业。她由于对于女权哲学以及思想哲学的巨大贡献而为世人所知，在这两个领域之内，她深受她的前同事Wilfrid Sellars的影响。

2012年考研英语背景知识介绍

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