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InOxfordinthe1950s,therewasafantasticdoctor,whowasveryunusual,namedAliceStewart.AndAlicewasunusualpartlybecause,ofcourse,shewasawoman,whichwasprettyrareinthe1950s.Andshewasbrilliant,shewasoneofthe,atthetime,theyoungestFellowtobeelectedtotheRoyalCollegeofPhysicians.Shewasunusualtoobecauseshecontinuedtowork

aftershegotmarried,aftershehadkids,andevenaftershegot divorcedandwasasingleparent,shecontinuedhermedical

work.

在20世纪50年代的?津，有?位很优秀,不寻常的医?，她叫AliceStewart。Alice很不寻常,因为她是个?的医?，这对于在20世纪50年代很罕见了。她?常厉害,是当时最年轻的皇家医师学院最年轻的学员之?。她很不寻常还因为在她结婚??后，她还继续?作，甚?在她离婚成为单亲妈妈之后，她

继续着她的医学?作。

Andshewasunusualbecauseshewasreallyinterestedinanewscience,theemergingfieldofepidemiology,thestudyofpatternsindisease.Butlikeeveryscientist,sheappreciatedthattomakehermark,whatsheneededtodowasfindahardproblemandsolveit.ThehardproblemthatAlicechosewastherising

incidenceofchildhoodcancers.Mostdiseaseiscorrelatedwith

poverty,butinthecaseofchildhoodcancers,thechildrenwho

weredyingseemedmostlytocomefromaffluentfamilies.So,what,shewantedtoknow,couldexplainthisanomaly?

她很不寻常还因为她对?门新的科学感兴趣，当时新出现的流?病学，对于疾病规律的研究。但跟每个科学家?样,她知道为了让她出众,她需要寻找到难题，然后解决它。Alice当时选择的难题是童年期癌症发?率的上升。?多数疾病都是跟贫穷有关的，不过在童年期癌症的问题上,这些垂死的孩?似乎?多数都从富裕家庭中?来。所以她想知道,怎样才能解释这样?种特殊现象呢?

v.离婚

epidemiology

n.流?病学

incidence

n.发?率

affluent

adj.富裕的

anomaly

n.反常现象

Now,Alicehadtroublegettingfundingforherresearch.Intheend,shegotjust1,000poundsfromtheLadyTataMemorialprize.Andthatmeantsheknewsheonlyhadoneshotatcollectingherdata.Now,shehadnoideawhattolookfor.Thisreallywasaneedleinahaystacksortofsearch,sosheaskedeverythingshecouldthinkof.Hadthechildreneatenboiledsweets?Hadtheyconsumedcoloreddrinks?