托福寫作素材模板：瑪麗·居里

　　素材段落

　　Marie Curie was so passionate about her love of science that she was able to overcome numerous adverse conditions which hindered her work and studies. She believed in the pursuit of science, for science’s sake, and retained this enthusiasm throughout her life. As a scientist, she never patented her work, leaving the door open for other scientists to build on her work during her life and after her death. During World War I, she was so passionate about the therapeutic benefits of her discoveries that, with the help of her daughter Irene, she helped equip ambulances with X-ray machines to identify fractures and locate shrapnel and bullets. In honor of her unparalleled contribution to the scientific world, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She was also the first person ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

　　單詞和詞組

　　adverse 不利的、敵對的

　　=unfavorable, hostile, malicious

　　✎ under adverse conditions

　　✎ exert an adverse effect/impact on …

　　for one’s sake 為了…的利益

　　✎ for the country’s sake

　　✎ for the sake of safety

　　retain 保持=keep, withhold

　　✎ retain the right to …

　　✎ retain an effective control over …

　　unparalleled 無比的、前所未有的

　　=incomparable, unmatched, unrivaled

　　✎ an unparalleled success

　　適用考題

　　✎ In order to succeed, we should be more like others than be different from others. (2015.9.12/2013.10.12)

　　✎ Successful people try new things and take risks rather than only doing the things they know well. (TPO 20)