女性先驅者的光輝
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Jane Goodall （Britain， 1934-）珍·古道爾（英國，1934—）
Occupation[職業]： Primatologist[靈長類動物學家] and Anthropologist[人類學家]
After reading the children’s book， The Story of Doctor Dolittle， a story about a doctor who travels to Africa and learns to talk to animals， seven-year-old Jane Goodall decided that she must go to Africa someday. She began reading every book about animals and Africa she could find.
Years later， a friend told her about a man named Louis Leakey注1， who was busy searching for evidence of early man in Kenya. Jane arranged an interview with Leakey. Impressed by her knowledge of animals， he hired Goodall.
Goodall has spent over 40 years studying the chimpanzees[黑猩猩]. Her goals have always been to understand and preserve chimpanzees. Her work has been important in emphasizing[強調] the need for conservation[保護] to millions of people.
注1：路易斯·利基（1903- 1972），英國考古學家和人類學家，其研究對人類演化理論有重大影響。
七歲的珍·古道爾在讀過兒童故事書《杜立德醫生》（該書講述了一位醫生去非洲學習和動物對話的故事）之後便決定有朝一日一定要到非洲去。她開始閱讀她能找到的每一本關於動物和非洲的書。
多年以後，一個朋友告訴她，一個名叫路易斯·利基的人正在肯尼亞尋找早期人類的證據。於是，珍與利基約定了一次麵談。她對動物的知識給利基留下了深刻的印象，因此她被利基聘用了。
古道爾對黑猩猩的研究長達四十多年。一直以來，她都以了解和保護黑猩猩作為目標。在向千千萬萬人強調保護黑猩猩的必要性方麵，她的工作起到了重要作用。
Valentina Tereshkova （Soviet Union， 1937-）瓦蓮京娜·捷列什科娃（前蘇聯，1937—）Occupation： Cosmonaut[宇航員]
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. Tereshkova got her start when she joined the Yaroslavl Air Sports Club and became a skilled parachutist[跳傘人]. Inspired by the flight of Yuri Gagarin， the first man in space， she volunteered for the Soviet space program. Although she had no experience as a pilot， her 38-meter jump record gained her a position as a cosmonaut in 1961. In 1963， she orbited[繞軌道而行] the Earth for almost three days， proving that women had the same resistance[抵抗力] in space as men. After her historic orbit， she toured the world promoting[促進] Soviet science and feminism[女權主義] and continued as an aerospace[航空宇宙] engineer in the space program. She has both an asteroid[小行星] and a crater[火山口] on the moon named in her honor.
瓦蓮京娜·捷列什科娃是第一個進入太空的女性。早年她加入了雅羅斯拉夫爾航空運動俱樂部，成為一名熟練的跳傘者，由此開始了她的宇航員生涯。“太空第一人”尤裏·加加林的飛行令她備受鼓舞，於是她自願參加了前蘇聯的太空計劃。雖然沒有飛行員經驗，但她的38米跳傘記錄仍在1961年為她贏得了宇航員的席位。1963年，她環繞地球飛行了近三天，證明了女性在太空和男性有同等的耐受性。在完成曆史性的繞地球飛行之後，她到世界各地宣傳前蘇聯科學和女權主義，並以航天工程師的身份繼續參與太空計劃。為了紀念她，人們以她的名字分別為一顆小行星和月球上的一個火山口命名。