人与社会——杰出人物
背景导入：钟南山， 中国工程院院士， 著名呼吸病学专家， 中国抗击非典型肺炎的领军人物， 广州呼吸疾病国家重点实验室主任、中华医学会会长。他为我们高中生树立了榜样， 树立正确的人生观和价值观， 明确奋斗的方向， 规划好自己的人生道路。
At the age of 84, Zhong Nanshan, an expert in respiratory (呼吸的) medicine and academician (院士) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been working against the “epidemic”. Born into a medical family and as the most outstanding① student of Beijing Medical College, Zhong Nanshan's medical road should have been a smooth② one.
In 1971, Zhong finally returned to Guangzhou from Beijing and became a doctor at the fourth people's hospital in Guangzhou. More than 40 years later, he recalled that his father's words had the greatest influence on him in his life, which reawakened③ his strong pursuit④ of medical career. Everything has to start from scratch⑤. Since then, he modestly learned from his colleagues, and his professional ability improved by leaps and bounds. He also took on the reluctant (不情愿的) task of studying chronic bronchitis (慢性支气管炎), only to find it became a lifelong career. At the age of 43, he was selected to the list of those who went abroad at public expense⑥ and got the opportunity to study in the University of Edinburgh. After finishing his studies and returning home, his father said to him solemnly (庄严地), “you have finally made the foreigners understand that the Chinese are not nothing.” By then, he was 45 years old, and it was the first time he could remember being praised by his father. Zhong's later stories are widely told. When two epidemics ravaged (破坏) the country and brought danger to the people, he went up right away and saved countless critically⑦ ill patients with his superb medical skills. “His talent and willpower⑧ gave him many possibilities for life to develop, but in the end he focused on medicine, continued to explore, and put his talents to the best use.”“The 84-year-old Zhong Nanshan has the expertise of an academician, the courage of a soldier, and the responsibility of a national scholar, ” the People'sDaily said on its official Weibo account.
①outstanding adj.优秀的；杰出的
②smooth adj.顺利的；平稳的
③reawaken vt.唤起；再次引发(感情、回忆等)
④pursuit n．追求
⑤start from scratch 从头开始
⑥ at public expense 公费
⑦critically adv.严重地；危险地
⑧willpower n．意志力
