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A moment every scientist dreams of—the Nobel Committee in Stockholm announcing the prize winner. ...to Yoshinori Ohsumi.
一個每位科學家夢想的時刻－－在斯德哥爾摩的諾貝爾委員會宣布得獎者。...得獎的是大隅良典。
The Japanese scientist was recognized for his years of research on autophagy—how cells eat damaged content and provide building blocks for renewal. Speaking in Tokyo, Ohsumi said the award was an honor, but he said the biggest prize was knowing that his experiments had proved so fruitful.
這位日本科學家因多年來在細胞自噬作用上的研究獲得認可－－自噬作用是指細胞如何吞食受損內含物并提供細胞更新的原料。于東京發言，大隅良典表示得到這個獎是項殊榮，但他說最大的收獲是知道自己的實驗有這么豐碩的成果。
There is no greater happiness as a researcher than that this research into yeast, into the fundamentals of living things, has turned into such a big springboard for the recent research into autophagy.
作為一名研究者，沒有什么比這更快樂了，這項對酵母、對生物基本原理的研究，成為近來自噬作用研究如此重要的一塊跳板。
Ohsumi's experiments helped pave the way for research on drugs to treat diseases like cancer, Parkinson's, and diabetes. Although autophagy was first discovered in the 1960s, it was Ohsumi's lab that explained how it worked and why it was significant.
大隅良典的實驗幫助替一些疾病藥物的研發鋪路，象是癌癥、帕金森氏癥以及糖尿病。雖然自噬作用在 1960 年代首次被發現，卻是大隅良典的實驗室解釋了它的運作方式以及它為何重要。
If you look into the records of publications, it's really been very few papers at the time that Yoshinori Ohsumi started his work—mostly his papers. And then as it became clear that this path was of fundamental importance, many researchers became interested, with thousands of publications each year on autophagy nowadays. So this is really a great example of how basic science, initiated by a single person or a single laboratory, at least, can actually define a new field.
如果你查發表記錄，在大隅良典開始他的研究那時其實只有很少篇論文－－大部分都是他的論文。接著當這條研究之路的重要性變得顯而易見時，許多研究者開始感興趣了，現在每年有數千篇關于自噬作用的論文發表。所以這真的是一個很好的例子，有關基礎科學如何，至少由一個人或一個實驗室發起的研究，可以真正劃出一個新領域。
Seventy-one-year-old Ohsumi said he never thought studying yeast would lead to the Nobel. But decades after beginning his research, he'll collect the prize in person at the award ceremony in Stockholm in December.
七十一歲的大隅良典說他從未想到研究酵母會帶給他諾貝爾獎。不過在他著手研究的數十年后，他將在十二月于斯德哥爾摩舉辦的頒獎儀式上親自領獎。
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