全中國為他倆興奮，你 CNN 不高興了？

這是 一直夫婦 的第 910 篇文章

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全球數學界最高榮譽菲爾茲獎被譽為「數學界的諾貝爾獎」。中國數學家王虹和鄧煜，與美國的約翰 · 帕登及加拿大的雅各布 · 齊默爾曼一同摘得桂冠。

王虹和鄧煜都是因在長期懸而未決的重要數學問題上取得突破而獲獎。其中，現年 35 歲的王虹是歷來第三名獲此殊榮的女性，她破解了三維掛谷猜想。

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For the first time, two Chinese nationals have been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics achievement – a win hailed across China as a milestone in the country’s bid to cement its role as a science and technology powerhouse.

1?? hail A as B

金牌寫作短語

這個短語我們之前學過哦。hail 是名詞「冰雹」，但在外刊中，動詞詞性使用頻率更高，還表示「把……稱贊為，把……譽為」。常用搭配是 hail A as B。多用于被動語態，構成 be hailed as。原句中的 a win hailed across China as a milestone 是指「一項在中國被譽為里程碑的成就」。

相比 praise 的平淡，hail 的語氣更強，強調公開、熱烈地稱贊，常用于重大成就、人物或事件。2020 年英二閱讀考過這個短語。

Madrid was hailed as a public health guiding light last November when it rolled out ambitious restrictions on the most polluting cars.

去年 11 月，馬德里推出了針對污染最嚴重車輛的嚴格限制措施，因此被譽為公共衛生領域的典范。

2?? cement /s??ment/

四級 + 考研詞匯

本義是「水泥」，后來擁有了動詞詞性，表示「用水泥等黏合」。水泥加水后會逐漸凝結、硬化，把石子、磚塊等材料牢固黏合在一起，使建筑結構更堅固、更穩定。于是人家就升華了，引申為 to make a relationship, an agreement, etc. stronger「加強，鞏固」關系、協定等，比如 cement their relationship「鞏固他們的關系」。

文中 cement its role as a science and technology powerhouse 則是「鞏固其作為科技強國的地位」。我們來看 2014 年 T3 的英一閱讀。

They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research.

它們可能會使同行評審的研究現狀止步不前。

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State media and other news sites were awash with articles about Wang and Deng and what their success means for the country, even as both pursued their academic careers outside of China after studying at Peking University, a top-ranked research university in Beijing.

3?? be awash with

銀牌寫作短語

awash 本義是 covered with water or another liquid「被淹沒的」，大街上到處是水，泛濫成災，因此它的引申義是「充斥的，泛濫的」，常跟 with 搭配，構成 be awash with sth。

這個短語常暗示某種東西太多，鋪天蓋地到處都是，帶有諷刺、批評意味。我們中國籍數學家首次拿菲爾茲獎，而且還一拿拿了倆，換誰不多多報道？CNN 用這個短語來描述，顯得不夠大氣。這個表達也并非總是貶義，具體得看后面的內容和整體語氣，如 be awash with colour「色彩斑斕」。來看《經濟學人》。

Amazon’s international business is, as in America, awash with overcapacity.

亞馬遜的國際業務和本土業務一樣產能嚴重過剩。

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Other posts celebrated Wang’s win as a breakthrough for women in STEM fields, with another social media commentator calling it “a hard slap in the face to those who have long preached that boys are better at mathematics than girls.”

Wang, who grew up in Guilin in southern China and is now a professor at New York University and the Institut des Hautes études Scientifiques in France, was awarded for her work resolving a decades-old problem in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory.

Deng, 37, a University of Chicago professor who grew up in the tech hub of Shenzhen, won for his progress on partial differential equations.

4?? a hard slap in the face to sb

哈哈，最后我們來學個好玩但很疼的，那就是「打臉」的英文。slap 表示「用巴掌打，摑」。「狠狠打了某人的臉」就是 a hard slap in the face to sb，或者你也可以用 slap someone hard across the face「狠狠扇了某人一巴掌」。不不不，后者是真的扇巴掌，是具體的動作，不是比喻義的「打臉」。

原文 “a hard slap in the face to those who have long preached that boys are better at mathematics than girls” 意思是「對那些長期宣揚『男孩數學能力優于女孩』的人，這無疑是一記響亮的耳光」。

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