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Google Honors First Native American Woman Engineer
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The search engine Google celebrated on Thursday what would have been the 110th birthday of the first Native American woman engineer. Google honored Mary Ross with a special Google Doodle on its homepage.
Ross was born on August 9, 1908, in the state of Oklahoma. She was the great-granddaughter of John Ross, the longest-serving chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Her work is considered critical to the early stages of the age of space travel.
Ross showed special abilities in math and science from an early age. As a student, she developed an interest in aviation, or the practice of flying aircraft. She went on to earn a master's degree in mathematics from Colorado State Teachers College -- now called the University of Northern Colorado.
During World War II, Ross began working for the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as a mathematician. There, she was urged to complete work in aeronautical engineering. She earned a special certification in the field from the University of California - Los Angeles in 1949.
Ross was later chosen to join Lockheed's top-secret Skunk Works team that worked on aircraft designs. The name refers to a group that is permitted to work independently on advanced projects. She was the only female engineer among the team's 40 members.
Early on, she researched defense systems. By the late 1950s, her work centered on satellites and a series of space rockets called Agenda. The rockets were extremely important in the 1960s during the Apollo moon program.
Ross also helped develop early design ideas for space travel between planets, including flyby space flights to study Venus and Mars.
Ross retired from Lockheed in 1973. But she continued to give talks at high schools and colleges to encourage more women and Native Americans to study engineering.
Mary Ross died in 2008, a few months before her 100th birthday.
Many celebrated Ross' life on social media. The National Science Foundation wrote on Twitter Thursday, "engineers like Mary Ross are an inspiration to women everywhere. Women and minorities continue to face challenges and break through barriers in engineering."
Scientists on Twitter wrote that Thursday's Doodle introduced them to Mary Ross for the first time.
Twitter user Aaron Perez, for example, wrote: "Mary Ross was an engineer who pioneered in the field of satellites. I never would [have] known if it wasn't for the doodle. Women engineers deserve more recognition."
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重点解析
1.space travel 太空旅行
The young man has a bee in his head about space travel.
那个年轻人对太空旅行着了迷。
2.social media 社交媒体
Social media allows them to have time to reconnect.
社会媒体能让他们有时间重新连接。
3.refers to 涉及
Breadth of experiences refers to the variety of things you do.
经验的广度涉及到你做的各种各样的事。
4.be centered on 集中于
Now their research is centered on the flip side of love.
现在他们的研究集中到爱的另一个方面。
5.Women and minorities continue to face challenges and break through barriers in engineering."
break through 突破
Protesters tried to break through a police cordon.
抗议者们试图冲破警察的封锁线。
There is still scope for new writers to break through.
仍有一些领域需要新作家们去开拓。
6.By the late 1950s, her work centered on satellites and a series of space rockets called Agenda.
a series of 一系列的
The students have put forward a series of questions.
学生们提出了一系列问题。
A series of technical foul-ups delayed the launch of the new product.
一系列技术问题延误了新产品的上市。
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谷歌纪念美国首位原住民女工程师
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周四，谷歌搜索引擎庆祝了美国首位原住民女工程师诞辰110周年。谷歌在主页上为玛丽·罗斯（Mary Ross）特制了一款谷歌涂鸦。
1908年8月9日，罗斯出生于俄克拉荷马州。她是在切诺基国家队服役时间最久的约翰·罗斯（John Ross）的曾孙女。
她的贡献被认为是对太空旅行早期阶段的关键。
罗斯自小在数学和科学方面展现出惊人天赋。在学生时期，她对航空产生了兴趣或者说对飞行飞机实践感兴趣。之后，她在科罗拉多州立师范学院——如今的“北科罗拉多大学”获得了数学硕士学位。
在二战期间，罗斯开始在洛克希德飞机公司担任数学家。在那里，她被要求完成航空工程的工作。1949年，她在该领域获得了加州大学洛杉矶分校的特殊证书。
罗斯后来入选洛克希德公司最机密的“臭鼬工作团队”，该团队致力研究飞行器设计。该名称专指那些“获准独立从事高级项目的团队”。她是团队40名成员中唯一的女工程师。
在早期阶段，她研究了防御系统。到20世纪50年代后期，她的工作集中于卫星以及一系列“Agenda”项目的太空火箭领域。这些火箭在上世纪60年代的“阿波罗登月计划”中至关重要。
罗斯还协助开发了行星间太空旅行的早期设计思路，包括通过太空飞行研究金星、火星。
1973年，罗斯从洛克希德公司退休。但是，她仍然到各个高中和大学演讲，鼓励更多女性和美国原住民投身到工程学中。
2008年，罗斯在她百岁生日前的几个月离世。
很多人通过社交媒体纪念罗斯的生平。周四，美国国家科学基金会在推特上发文称：“罗斯这样的工程师激励了世界各地的女性。女性和少数民族仍然面临挑战并且要突破工程领域的障碍。”
科学家们在推特上纷纷表示，周四的谷歌涂鸦首次向他们介绍了罗斯。
例如，推特用户Aaron Perez写道：“罗斯工程师是卫星领域的先驱。如果不是谷歌涂鸦，我永远不会了解到这些。女性工程师应该得到广泛的认可。”
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