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The Curies moved in and set up their laboratory and workshops.

居里夫妇搬了进去，建了实验室和工作室。

The Curies set out to find the cause of this mysterious reaction.

居里夫妇着手去寻找此种神秘反应的原因。

It was the discovery of… It was the discovery of radium that made the Curies win the Nobel Prize.

是镭的发现使居里夫妇得到了诺贝尔奖金。

These scientists could not believe the two Curies more .

这些科学家完全相信居里夫妇。

Question piled upon question and the Curies had to find the answers.

问题一个接一个涌现，居里夫妇要找到答案。

Now the Curies became interested in the strange behavior of a rare metal , uranium.

居里夫妇开始对一种稀有金属——铀的特性产生了浓厚的兴趣。

In 1898, the Curies obtained a new element, whose radioactivity was several million times stronger than that of uranium.

1898年，居里夫妇获得了一种新元素，它的放射性比铀强几百万倍。

Unfortunately, the Curies were unaware of the deleterious health effects of repeated unprotected radiation exposure.

遗憾的是，居里夫妇没有意识到不断地在没有保护的情况下暴露于辐射中对身体的害处。

The more the Curies talked about this discovery, the more determined they became to find out the how and the why of these queer rays.

居里夫妇对这一发现讨论得越多，就越坚定了他们的决心：弄明白这些奇怪的射线是怎么产生的，为什么会产生。

Others had performed similar work, but the methodical and precise approach of the Curies that distinguished them from the rest.

当时，还有其他的一些人也在做相类似的工作，但居里夫妇所采用的方法和测量的精度明显地优于其余人。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。