ultimatum-最后通牒
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By 1995, her UPenn bosses gave Karikó an  ultimatum: Give up her research or face a demotion and a pay cut. Karikó received the directive while her husband was stuck in Hungary for six months over a visa issue and the same week she was diagnosed with cancer. It was "so horrible," she told Stat News in 2020. "I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else," she said, adding, "I also thought maybe l'm not good enough, not smart enough."
到了1995年，她在宾大的上级们给她下了最后通牒：放弃她的研究，否则将面临降职和减薪。Kariko收到命令的时候，她的丈夫因签证问题需要滞留勾牙利六个月，而她在同一周被诊断出癌症。她在2020年告诉Stat News说这一切“太可怕了〞。她说：“我想过去别的地方，或者做别的事情。“她补充道：“我也想过，也许我不够好，不够聪明。”
摘自《FORTUNE》20231003期-The scientist whose research was key to developing theCOVID vaccines was demoted, had her salary cut, and threatened with deportation.Today, she won the Nobel Prize