元素周期表将添四位新成员 于2016年初公布

 　　Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, finally completing the table's seventh row and rendering¹ science textbooks around the world instantly out of date.

　　据悉，元素周期表将要新添四名新成员，第七行元素将得以完整，而这将使全世界的化学教材瞬间成为过去时。

　　The elements, discovered by scientists in Japan, Russia and America, are the first to be added to the table since 2011, when elements 114 and 116 were added.

　　本次由日本、俄罗斯和美国科学家发现的元素是既2011年114和116号元素加入周期表以来，首批加入的新元素。

　　The four were verified on 30 December by the US-based International Union of Pure and Applied² Chemistry, the global organisation³ that governs chemical nomenclature, terminology⁴ and measurement.

　　这四个元素由位于美国的国际纯粹与应用化学联合会于12月30日证实，这个世界性的组织负责着化学界的命名法、术语和测量。

　　元素周期表将添四位新成员 于2016年初公布

　　IUPAC announced that a Russian-American team of scientists at the Joint⁵ Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had produced sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118.

　　国际纯粹与应用化学联合会宣称，一支由俄罗斯杜布纳联合原子核研究所与美国加利福尼亚劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室的美俄科学家组成的队伍，已掌握了充分的证据来证实115号、117号和118号元素的存在。

　　The body awarded credit for the discovery of element 113, which had also been claimed by the Russians and Americans, to a team of scientists from the Riken institute in Japan.

　　俄罗斯和美国的科学家们还宣布发现了113号元素，联合会把这一荣誉授予了来自日本理化研究所的科学团队。

　　Kosuke Morita, who was leading the research at Riken, said his team now planned to “look to the unchartered territory of element 119.”

　　理化研究所的Kosuke Morita是这次研究的领导者，他说他们的队伍正计划“探索119号元素尚未开垦的领域。”

　　Ryoji Noyori, former Riken president and Nobel laureate in chemistry said: “To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal”.

　　研究所前主席和诺贝尔化学奖获得者野依良治表示：“对于科学家来说，这比获得奥运金牌的价值还要重大。”

　　The elements, which currently bear placeholder names, will be officially named by the teams that discovered them in the coming months. Element 113 will be the first element to be named in Asia.

　　现在这几个元素还是无名氏，接下来的几个月，它们的发现者队伍将会正式为其命名，113号元素也将成为第一个在亚洲命名的元素。

　　New elements can be named after a mythological⁶ concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist.

　　新元素可以依据某一虚拟概念、矿物或者按发现地点、发现者的国家或者由元素的特性或某个科学家来命名。

　　The four new elements, all of which are man-made, were discovered by slamming lighter⁷ ?nuclei⁸ into each other and tracking the following decay of the radioactive superheavy elements.

　　这四个新元素都是人造的，是由火花与原子核相互撞击并且循着放射性超重元素衰变的轨迹而发现的。

1 rendering   

n.表现，描写

参考例句：

• She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
• His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。

2 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

3 organisation   

n.组织，安排，团体，有机休

参考例句：

• The method of his organisation work is worth commending.他的组织工作的方法值得称道。
• His application for membership of the organisation was rejected.他想要加入该组织的申请遭到了拒绝。

4 terminology   

n.术语；专有名词

参考例句：

• He particularly criticized the terminology in the document.他特别批评了文件中使用的术语。
• The article uses rather specialized musical terminology.这篇文章用了相当专业的音乐术语。

5 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

6 mythological   

adj.神话的

参考例句：

• He is remembered for his historical and mythological works. 他以其带有历史感和神话色彩的作品而著称。
• But even so, the cumulative process had for most Americans a deep, almost mythological significance. 不过即使如此，移民渐增的过程，对于大部分美国人，还是意味深长的，几乎有不可思议的影响。

7 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

8 nuclei   

n.核

参考例句：

• To free electrons, something has to make them whirl fast enough to break away from their nuclei. 为了释放电子，必须使电子高速旋转而足以摆脱原子核的束缚。
• Energy is released by the fission of atomic nuclei. 能量是由原子核分裂释放出来的。