全中国为他俩兴奋，你 CNN 不高兴了？

这是 一直夫妇 的第 910 篇文章

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全球数学界最高荣誉菲尔兹奖被誉为「数学界的诺贝尔奖」。中国数学家王虹和邓煜，与美国的约翰 · 帕登及加拿大的雅各布 · 齐默尔曼一同摘得桂冠。

王虹和邓煜都是因在长期悬而未决的重要数学问题上取得突破而获奖。其中，现年 35 岁的王虹是历来第三名获此殊荣的女性，她破解了三维挂谷猜想。

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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.

1️⃣ hail A as B

金牌写作短语

这个短语我们之前学过哦。hail 是名词「冰雹」，但在外刊中，动词词性使用频率更高，还表示「把……称赞为，把……誉为」。常用搭配是 hail A as B。多用于被动语态，构成 be hailed as。原句中的 a win hailed across China as a milestone 是指「一项在中国被誉为里程碑的成就」。

相比 praise 的平淡，hail 的语气更强，强调公开、热烈地称赞，常用于重大成就、人物或事件。2020 年英二阅读考过这个短语。

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，马德里推出了针对污染最严重车辆的严格限制措施，因此被誉为公共卫生领域的典范。

2️⃣ cement /sɪˈment/

四级 + 考研词汇

本义是「水泥」，后来拥有了动词词性，表示「用水泥等黏合」。水泥加水后会逐渐凝结、硬化，把石子、砖块等材料牢固黏合在一起，使建筑结构更坚固、更稳定。于是人家就升华了，引申为 to make a relationship, an agreement, etc. stronger「加强，巩固」关系、协定等，比如 cement their relationship「巩固他们的关系」。

文中 cement its role as a science and technology powerhouse 则是「巩固其作为科技强国的地位」。我们来看 2014 年 T3 的英一阅读。

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

它们可能会使同行评审的研究现状止步不前。

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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.

3️⃣ be awash with

银牌写作短语

awash 本义是 covered with water or another liquid「被淹没的」，大街上到处是水，泛滥成灾，因此它的引申义是「充斥的，泛滥的」，常跟 with 搭配，构成 be awash with sth。

这个短语常暗示某种东西太多，铺天盖地到处都是，带有讽刺、批评意味。我们中国籍数学家首次拿菲尔兹奖，而且还一拿拿了俩，换谁不多多报道？CNN 用这个短语来描述，显得不够大气。这个表达也并非总是贬义，具体得看后面的内容和整体语气，如 be awash with colour「色彩斑斓」。来看《经济学人》。

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

亚马逊的国际业务和本土业务一样产能严重过剩。

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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.

4️⃣ a hard slap in the face to sb

哈哈，最后我们来学个好玩但很疼的，那就是「打脸」的英文。slap 表示「用巴掌打，掴」。「狠狠打了某人的脸」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，是具体的动作，不是比喻义的「打脸」。

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「对那些长期宣扬『男孩数学能力优于女孩』的人，这无疑是一记响亮的耳光」。

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