These scientists could not believe the Curies more.

这些科学家完全相信居里夫妇。

The matter that the Curies had discovered was radium.

居里夫妇发现的物质正是镭。

Well funded and well respected, the Curies were on a roll.

居里夫妇得到了充足的资金和尊重，一切都很顺利。

The Curies tried to compare their rays with Becquerel’s rays, to find the commonalties.

居里夫妇试着对这两种元素的射线与贝克雷尔的射线进行了比较，以便找到具有放射性的元素郡体。

The Curies and Henri Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize for Physics because of their discovery of natural radioactivity.

居里夫妇和昂利·贝克雷尔（1852-1908，法国物理学家，1903年诺贝尔奖金获得者。 译者注）因他们共同发现天然物质的放射性而共享了1903年的诺贝尔奖。

And so both of the Curies and Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize, making Marie Curie the first female Nobel Laureate.

于是，居里夫妇和贝克勒尔共同获得了1903年的诺贝尔奖，这使得玛丽·居里成为了第一位获得诺贝尔奖的女性。

Others had performed similar work, but the methodical and precise approach of the Curies that distinguished them from the rest.

当时，还有其他的一些人也在做相类似的工作，但居里夫妇所采用的方法和测量的精度明显地优于其余人。

The Curies had hoped that the Nobel Prize would finally bring the opportunity for a chair at the French Academy and the laboratory that went with it.

居里夫妇希望因获得的诺贝尔奖最终能在法国科学院得到一个职位和给他们一个实验室。