Unit 2 Career Development Planning
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Reading 1
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昔日普通大学生,今日诺贝尔奖得主
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—— 拉什沃思*M. 基德尔
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So-So Student, Nobel Prize Winner
— by Rushworth M. Kidder
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【1】据粒子物理学家里昂*M. 莱德曼回忆,他天生笨
手笨脚。
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As particle physicist Leon M. Lederman remembers it, he wasn't naturally good with his hands.
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经济大萧条时期,在纽约市长大的他对于事物的原理
一点也不好奇。
As a youngster growing up in the Depression years
in New York City, he wasn't all that curious about
how things worked.
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他不是一个出类拔萃的学生,而且数学让他倍感吃力。
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He wasn't a very good student. He found math
difficult.
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在哥伦比亚大学,作为一名物理专业的研究生,他第
一个学年表现不佳。
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His first year as a graduate student in physics
at Columbia University was terrible.
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他申请转学到麻省理工学院,但遭到对方拒绝。 So he applied to transfer to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — and was refused.
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【2】可后来,由于1962年发现了第二个中微子—— 一种基本的亚原子微粒,1988年莱德曼与他人共同荣膺
诺贝尔物理学奖。
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And then in 1988, he shared the Nobel Prize in physics for his 1962 discovery of a second neutrino, an elementary subatomic particle.
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【3】那么究竟是什么激发他开始物理研究并持之以恒
呢?
What got him launched and kept him going?
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在一次采访中,他谈及曾经激励过的人们。这次采访是在费米国家加速器实验室莱德曼的办公室里进行的,莱德曼于1979年至1989年担任该实验室的负责
人。
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In an interview in his office at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which he directed from 1979 until 1989, he points to the people who
spurred him on.
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【4】据他回忆,10岁时发生过两件事。Two things happened, he recalls, when he was 10 years old.
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