医学部を目指し、Natureなど科学・医学記事を英語で読む

addressについて---2

「確認テスト」の参加者の方からの情報によると、
『わかる！できる！医歯薬系の英単語』第二版（学研）
には、
「・・に取り組む」という訳語で、
例文：address a serious matter [重大な問題に取り組む」
とあるそうです。

一方、同じ医学部受験向けの単語集、
『医学部受験の英単語』初版（河合出版）
にはありません。

なお、『ジーニアス英和辞典』1995年6月20日  発行（大修館）
「6 〈物･事〉に焦点をあてる,的をしぼる,取り組む」
という扱い。
一方、『英辞郎』では、
1 （問題などを）解決するために努力する、
（問題を）扱う、（問題に）当たる、
（仕事・問題などに）本気で取り組む［取り掛かる］、～に対して何らかの処置を施す、
～に注意を向ける［対処する・対応する・精力を傾ける］、
～を何とかする(do something about)

the San Francisco Chronicleには、
........
To address this nature deficit, the California Biodiversity Council is focusing its efforts on reconnecting youth to the outdoors. When it meets this week, it will adopt the California Children Outdoors Bill of Rights that lists 10 outdoor activities that every child should experience before age 14. ...........全文は↓
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/08/EDB913D53B.DTL&type=green
という文章が出てきます

科学系の記事だけではなく、一般的な記事にも普通に使われています。

単語集などでおぼえた「訳語」を英文に当てはめて
読もうとして、大きく意味を取り違える人がいます。そういう人に限って、さらに単語の訳語を覚えようとする傾向が強いように思われます。
英語の意味は常に文脈で判断できるように訓練しましょう。そういう読みができるようになってから、単語の定訳をおぼるようにしましょう。

ノーベル賞受賞関連記事

さっと読んで、意味を確認しておきましょう。単語の訳語だけを憶えようとしないこと。

医学賞：
*Published online 6 October 2008 | Nature |
"Virus discoveries secure Nobel prize in medicine"
Work on HIV and human papilloma virus already offers health benefits.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081006/full/news.2008.1154.html"
medicine＝医学
secure=獲得する　
health benefits＝健康に良いこと、健康上の利益、医療補助

*NYT Published: October 7, 2008
"Discoverers of AIDS and Cancer Viruses Win Nobel"
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded Monday to three European scientists who had discovered viruses behind two devastating illnesses, AIDS and cervical cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07nobel.html?scp=1&sq=Nobel%20prize%20in%20medicine&st=cse
devastating＝ 破壊的な
cervical cancer＝子宮頚癌

*The Guardian, Tuesday October 7 2008
Nobel awards revive HIV discovery row
The award of the Nobel prize for medicine yesterday reopened a 25-year-old controversy over the discovery of HIV by neglecting an American researcher who played a significant role in the early scientific work on Aids.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/07/medicalresearch.aids
controversy＝ 論争、口論、議論、討論、物議◆【

*Nobel Prize Surprise
By Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen
ScienceNOW Daily News
6 October 2008
In a snub to one of the world's most famous virologists, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that it has awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute in Paris for their discovery of the virus that causes AIDS. The decision passes over Robert Gallo of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, with whom Montagnier had a long-running battle over both credit for the AIDS virus's discovery and the patents related to the test used to detect the virus in blood.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1006/1

物理学賞：
*Published online 7 October 2008 | Nature |
Nobel Prize in Physics for symmetry breakdown
"Japanese-born theorists rewarded for work on fundamental symmetries in particle physics."
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081007/full/news.2008.1155.html
symmetry breakdown or symmetry breaking＝対称性の破れ
particle physics素粒子物理学

*NYT Published: October 7, 2008
"Three Physicists Share Nobel Prize"
An American and two Japanese physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work exploring the hidden symmetries between elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/science/08nobel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
elementary particle=基本粒子、素粒子
constituent=構成物質

*The guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 07.
Nobel prize for physics goes to work on fundamental laws of nature
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/07/nobel.physics

*2008 Physics Nobel Prize Honors American and Japanese Particle Theorists
By Adrian Cho
ScienceNOW Daily News
7 October 2008

This year's Nobel Prize in physics honors three particle theorist of Japanese origin, one for pioneering the use of a key conceptual tool and the other two for making, in essence, an inspired educated guess that expanded the family of fundamental subatomic particles.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1007/1

化学賞：
*Americans, Japanese Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
By AP/KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE
(Associated Press writer Malcolm Ritter)
Time, Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2008
(STOCKHOLM, Sweden) — Two Americans and one Japanese won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for the discovery and development of a brightly glowing protein first seen in jellyfish, work that has helped scientists study how cancer cells spread.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1848177,00.html

*'Glowing' jellyfish grabs Nobel
BBC, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 11:58 UK
A clever trick borrowed from jellyfish has earned two Americans and one Japanese scientist a share of the chemistry Nobel Prize.
Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura made it possible to exploit the genetic mechanism responsible for luminosity in the marine creatures.
Today, countless scientists use this knowledge to tag biological systems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7658945.stm

*Nobel prize for chemistry illuminates disease
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 08
The discovery of a green glowing protein from jellyfish has netted two Americans and one Japanese scientists the Nobel prize for chemistry. Each will take an equal share of the 10m Swedish kronor (£790,000) award.
Green flourescent protein (GFP) is now one of the most important tools in biochemistry. Attaching it to other proteins or structures within cells allows scientists to watch the cell's machinery at work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/08/nobel.chemistry

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