研究生下补充课文翻译及习题
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A Beautiful Mind1.John Forbes Nash, Jr. –mathematical genius, inventor of a theory ofrationed behavior, visionary of the thinking machine—had been sitting with his visitor, also a mathematician, for nearly half an hour. It was late on a weekday afternoon in the spring of 1959, and, though it was only May, uncomfortably warm. Nash was slumped in an armchair in one corner of the hospital lounge, carelessly dressed in a nylon shirt that hung limply over h is unbelted trousers. His powerful frame was slack as a rag doll’s, his finelymolded features expressionless. He had been staring dully at a spot immediately in front of the left foot of Harvard professor George Mackey, hardly moving except to brush his long dark hair away from his forehead in a fitful, repetitive motion. His visitor sat upright, oppressed by the silence, acutely conscious that the doors to the room were locked. Mackey finally could contain himself no longer. His voice was slightly querulous, but he strained to be gentle. “How could you,” began Mackey, “how could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof… how could you believe that extraterrestrials are sending you message? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world? How could you…?”小约翰·福布斯·纳什,数学天才、理性行为理论创立者、预见会思考的机器出现的预言者,已经和他的同样是数学家的来访者一起坐了差不多半个小时.那是1959年春季一个工作日的傍晚时分,虽然才是5 月,天气却很热,令人不太舒服。
新编研究生英语教材 Unit 2课文翻译及课后习题答案Unit 2 LanguageText A Learn by TouchII. Word Study1) hearth2) repent3) tussle4) in the light of5) intercourse6) verbatim7) take the initiative8) gamut9) augmentation10) tactfulIII. Cloze1. B.2. A.3. A.4. C.5. D.6. B.7. A.8. C.9. C.10. D.11. C.12. A.13. D.14. C.15. A.16. C.17. D.18. C.19. A.20. B.IV. Translation1. Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.博物馆和艺术品商店也是带给我快乐和灵感的源泉。
毫无疑问,很多人都觉得奇怪,不凭借视觉,手就能感觉到冰冷的大理石雕像的动作、情感和美;但我的确从触摸伟大的艺术作品中获得了真正的愉悦。
当我的指尖追寻那些起伏的线条时,它们自会发现艺术家所描绘的思想和情感。
我能从雕像的脸上感受到众神和英雄们的憎恨、勇气和爱,正如我能从允许我触摸的活人的脸上察觉出这些感情一样。
我从戴安娜的姿态中触摸到了森林的优雅与自由,还有那驯服山狮与慑服暴戾的气质。
维纳斯的静谧和优雅使我感受到了灵魂的喜悦;而巴雷的铜像则使我仿佛窥见了丛林的秘密。
2. Translate the following paragraphs into English.English is attached great importance in China where English training market is in full swing with so many training centers appearing. Many Chinese, old and young, have made learning English an important part of their daily life. Even preschoolers can remember hundreds of English words. However, behind this globalization is people’s deep concern for Chinese traditional culture.Fortunately, recent years have witnessed a surge of “back-to-the-ancients schools”. It’s said that “knowledge makes a gentleman’. The study of Chinese traditional culture and the reading of Chinese classics exposes students to a wide range of information and makes them well rounded. However, some people are still on the fence, and are ambivalent towards “back-to-the-ancients schools” because they consider this ancient wisdom to be out of tune with the times. In contrast, the Confucius Institute --- that promotes Chinese language and culture, supports local Chinese teaching internationally, and facilitates culture exchange --- has been popular worldwide. By the end of 2012, 400 Confucius Institutes and 535 Confucius Classrooms had been established in 108 countries and regions.课文翻译倚触而学海伦·凯勒1 我生命中最重要的日子是我的老师安妮·曼斯菲尔德·莎莉文到来的那一天。
幸福隐藏的另一面凯思琳•麦克高恩1飓风、房屋失火、癌症、激流漂筏失事、坠机、昏暗小巷遭歹徒袭击,没人想找上这些事儿。
但出人意料的是,很多人发现遭受这样一次痛苦的磨难最终会使他们向好的方面转变。
他们可能都会这样说:‚我希望这事没发生,但因为它我变得更完美了。
‛2我们都爱听人们经历苦难后发生转变的故事,可能是因为这些故事证实了一条真正的心理学上的真理,这条真理有时会湮没在无数关于灾难的报道中:在最困难的境况中,人所具有的一种内在的奋发向上的能力会迸发出来。
对那些令人极度恐慌的经历作出积极回应的并不仅限于最坚强或最勇敢的人。
实际上,大约半数与逆境抗争过的人都说他们的生活从此在某方面有了改善。
3诸如此类有关危机改变一生的发现有着可观的研究前景,这正是创伤后成长这一新学科的研究领域。
这一新兴领域已经证实了曾经被视为陈词滥调的一个真理:大难不死,意志弥坚。
创伤后压力绝不是唯一可能的结果。
在遭遇了即使最可怕的经历之后,也只有一小部分成年人会受到长期的心理折磨。
更常见的情况是,人们会恢复过来—甚至最终会成功发达.4那些经受住苦难打击的人是有关幸福悖论的生动例证:为了尽可能地过上最好的生活,我们所需要的不仅仅是愉悦的感受。
我们这个时代的人对幸福的追求已经缩小到只追求福气:一生没有烦恼,没有痛苦和困惑。
5这种对幸福的平淡定义忽略了问题的主要方面——一种富有意义的生活所带来的那种丰富、完整的愉悦。
那就是幸福背后隐藏的那种本质——是我们在明智的男男女女身上所欣赏到并渴望在我们自己生活中培育的那种不可言喻的品质。
事实证明,一些遭受苦难最多的人——他们被迫全力应付他们未曾预料到的打击,并重新思考他们生活的意义——或许对那种深刻的、给人以强烈满足感的人生经历(哲学家们过去称之为对‚美好生活‛的探寻)最有发言权。
6这种对美好生活的更为广泛的定义把深深的满足感和一种通过移情与他人建立的深切联系融合在一起。
它主要受愉悦情感的支配,但同时也夹杂着惆怅和悔恨。
下册Unit1[1]我们都知道科学在我们的社会生活中发挥着重要的作用。
然而,许多人认为,我们的进步取决于两方面的科学。
第一部分是科学家和技术人员研发的,机器的应用知识的成果和体系。
通过科技,科学提高了社会结构和帮助人们提高控制环境的能力。
第二个方面是,从政府官员到普通居民所有的社会成员应用的,科学家在研究中使用的特殊的思维方式和行为。
[2]人类确保了他们的生存区别于其他动物,在于观察和了解他们的环境,然后适应环境或控制,并且使它适应自己的需要。
仔细观察的过程中,认知模式的现象观察,紧随其后这些知识的应用,在很大程度上赋予了人类活动知识以“科学”内容。
它也证明了传统科学方法的内容:客观的观察和一些现象的描述,对观察到了事件进行陈述,以及和他们之间可能的关系进行陈述,观察,利用这些来预测未来事件来验证假设,并在此基础上,构建一些地区的自然活动的理论。
[3]然而这个过程,仍然构成了科学的活动,但经典的“科学方法”一直被从各种角度批评。
首先,很明显,科学和科学家“客观性”的严格表现仅仅体现在最低的科学活动——观察。
即使在这里有人怀疑,是否任何人都可以成为一个真正的公正的事件的观察者。
某人选择去观察以及观察的方法是必须的,毕竟只是在一定程度上依据观察者的经验和想法反映出什么是重要的。
例如,考虑了一位艺术家和一个门外汉以不同的方式看同一幅画会有不同的反应。
[4]理论和假设的构造,反映了科学家他们(研究后)所看到的比观察更清楚的解释。
在这一阶段上科学方法有主观因素是不可避免的。
在真正的有创造性天才的极端的例子中,这可以最容易被看到,例如伽利略,在他的年代中,他用他的地球绕着太阳转假设来反对所有科学家们(和教堂)。
另一个二十世纪的例子是,沃森和克里克发现DNA分子结构。
显然,科学不仅是仔细观察,而且富于创新的意愿,这可能在假定的事实的研究领域需要超越现今传统研究的研究范式的展望。
[5]对此科学方法的进一步批评是关于它所应用的对象。
1 大学课堂:还有人在听吗?A former teacher of mine, Robert A.Fowkes of New York University, likes to tell the story of a class he took in Old Welsh while studying in Germany during the 1930s.On the first day the professor strode up to the podium, shuffled his notes, coughed, and began, ―Guten Tag, Meine Damen und Herren‖(―Good day, ladies and gentlemen‖).Fowkes glanced around uneasily. He was the only student in the course.1.纽约大学的Robert A.Fowkes 是我过去的一位老师。
他喜欢讲在上世纪30年代他在德国上古威尔士语课的故事。
第一天上课,教授大步走上讲台,翻了翻笔记,咳嗽了一声,开始说道:“早上好,女士们、先生们。
”Fowkes 不安地扫视一番。
他是上这门课的惟一学生。
Toward the middle of the semester, Fowkes fell ill and missed a class. When he returned, the professor nodded vaguely and, to Fowkes's astonishment, began to deliver not the next lecture in the sequence but the one after. Had he, in fact, lectured to an empty hall in the absence of his solitary student? Fowkes thought it perfectly possible2.在学期中间,Fowkes 因病缺了一次课。
研究生学术综合英语补充课文的原文翻译和习题答案Lesson One Spell of the Rising Moon I. READING COMPREHENSION A. Answer the following questions or complete the following statements. 1. D (But it is the drama of the moonrise that I come to see. For that restores in me a quiet and clarity that the city spends too freely.)2. D ( There have been broad, confident harvest moons in autumn; shy, misty moons in spring; lonely, white winter moons rising into the utter silence of an ink-black sky and smoke-smudged orange moons over the dry fields of summer. Each, like fine music, excited my heart and then calmed my soul.)3. C (To prehistoric hunters the moon overhead was as unerring as heartbeat. They knewthat every 29 days it became full-bellied and brilliant, then sickened and died, and then was reborn. They knew the waxing moon appeared larger and higher overhead after each succeeding sunset. They knew the waning moon rose later each night until it vanished in the sunrise.) 4. B (Still, it tugs at our minds. If we unexpectedly encounter the full moon, huge and yellow over the horizon, we are helpless but to stare back at its commanding presence.) 5. B (I learned about its gifts one July evening in the mountains. My car had mysteriously stalled, and I was stranded and alone.) 6. B (To watch the moon move inexorably higher is to find an unusual stillness within ourselves.)7. D (On that July night, I watched the moon for an hour or two, and then got back into the car, turned the key in the ignition and heard the engine start, just asmysteriously as it had stalled a few hours earlier.) 8. A (I return often to the rising moon. I am drawn especially when events crowd ease and clarity of vision into a small corner of my life.) 9. A (Of Beethoven’s \Lorenzo declaims in The Merchant of Venice, //How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music/Creep in our ears.\I wonder if their verse and music, like the music of crickets, are in some way voices of the moon.) 10.A (The whole passage.) B.Global understanding and logical structures Complete the following notes with the information, from the text: 1. The author often climbs the hill near his home at night to watch the drama of the moonrise because it can restore in him a quiet and clarity that the city spends too freely. 1 2. To the author the different mood and color of the moonare: A. In autumn: broad, confident harvest B. In spring: shy, misty C. In winter: lonely, white D. In summer: smoke-smudged orange 3. A. To prehistoric hunters the moon overhead was as unerring as heartbeat. B. To contemporary people live indoors few can say what time the moon will rise tonight.C. But if we unexpectedly encounter the full moon, we are helpless but to stare back at its commanding presence. 4. The moon has gifts to bestow upon those who watch it: Example: One July evening in the mountains, the author’s car mysteriously stalled, and he was stranded and alone. He took the advantage to watch the moonrise for an hour or two. When he got back into the car, the engine started just as mysteriously as it had stalled a few hours earlier. 5. Later on the author often returns to the rising moon when events crowd ease an clarity ofvision into a small corner of my life. He listens to the sound of owls and crickets and thinks the beautiful music and poems about the moon. 6. At moonrise, people open the vents of feeling and exercise parts of our minds that reason locks away by day. II. VOCABULARY A. Choose the best word from the four choices to complete each of the following sentences. 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D5. A6. B7. A8. C9. A 10. BB. Choose the best word or expression from the list given for each blank. Use each word or expression only once and make proper changes where necessary.1. swoop2. cricket3. smudged4. Stalled5. tugs at6. stay clear of7. slipped into8. crowded into9. loom up10. stranded III. CLOZE 1. just as 2. permanent 3. depend on 4. phase 5. shadow 6. Resembling 7. lunar 8. closer 9. illuminated10. waning IV. TRANSLATION Put the following parts into Chinese. V. ORAL PRACTICE AND DISCUSSION 1. How does the author describe the moonrise? Is it the same as you see it? The sun had set, and I was watching what seemed to be the bright-orange glow of a forest fire beyond a ridge to the east. Suddenly, the ridge itself seemed to burst into flame. Then, the rising moon, huge and red 2 and grotesquely misshapen by the dust and sweat of the summer atmosphere, loomed up out of the woods. Distorted thus by the hot breath of earth, the moon seemed ill-tempered and imperfect??But as the moon lifted off the ridge it gathered firmness and authority. Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive yellow. It seemed to draw light out of the darkening earth, for as it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer.By the time the moon stood clear of the horizon, full chested and round and the color of ivory, the valleys were deep shadows in the landscape?? The drama took an hour. Moonrise is slow and serried with subtleties。
研究生英语精读教程(下)课文翻译及答案Unit One Technology vs. Terrorism参考译文应对恐怖主义的技术毒素嗅探器、导弹人为干发射机、放射性核弹探测器:“9〃11”事件后闪电式的保卫行动不仅影响着公共安全——还在改变着科学的进程。
史蒂芬〃汉德曼边境、基础设施[5] 自 2004 年以来,首都华盛顿应用的一种可核对监视名单信息的光扫描器已记录下了约6 000 万访美人员两个食指的指印。
花费了15 亿美元研制成的“访美” 生物统计学程序已识别出 1 100 名企图以假借口入境的人及 2 万多背景可疑的想要入境者。
[6] 随着护照签证申请人的档案急剧增加,对十指全部进行扫描将使身份验证更加万无一失。
扫描系统还可以利用虹膜扫描和声纹。
同时,在100 个港口和边防站,一种由科学应用国际公司设计、名叫“ 车货检查系统” (VACIS) 的车载扫描器给海关检查员提供了一种工具,使他们不用打开卡车与集装箱就能探查内部的真相。
VACIS 采用了甚至能穿透铅衬里箱子的低能伽马射线,射线在6 秒钟这么短的时间内就能显示出有明显颗粒的图像。
如果检查人员发现货物和运货清单上写的不一致,则集装箱就会被转到另一处做进一步检查。
[7] 现在正在开发之中的还有微米大小的传感器——名叫“智能灰尘” 或“尘埃”。
该传感器可撒在管线、无设防的边境和公用设施的周围,用以监测生物浮质、化学物质或放射物的入侵或释放。
依靠传感器仪表的技术进展,这些用电池作能源的计算机形成了一个电子眼、电子耳和电子鼻的网络——它们可用低宽带频率相互通讯,并可将各种示数发送到中心服务器。
专家说,该传感器可能准备到2010 年在全国各地铺开,不过这还要视投资情况而定。
Unit Four The Man Who Discovered Mother Nature参考译文发现大自然的人詹姆斯〃洛夫洛克大胆新颖的理论有可能永远改变我们看待我们这个行星上生物的方式洛厄尔〃庞特[5] 不过就在寻找火星上是否有生命迹象的同时,洛夫洛克对“ 金发小姑娘问题” 着了迷,这是一个早就令科学家们感兴趣的谜:为什么金星太热,火星太冷,不适于生物生存,而地球却恰好适合于生物生存呢 ?[6] 研究人员过去曾假设地球不过是很走运,与太阳的距离不远不近正合适,这样水始终处于液态,水温保持在沸点与冰点之间。
Lesson OneSpell of the Rising MoonI. READING COMPREHENSIONA. Answer the following questions or complete the following statements.1. D <But it is the drama of the moonrise that I come to see. For thatrestores in me aquiet and clarity that the city spends too freely.> 2. D < There have been broad, confident harvest moons in autumn; shy,misty moons in spring; lonely, white winter moons rising into the utter silence of an ink-black skyand smoke-smudged orange moons over the dry fields of summer. Each, like fine music, excited my heart and then calmed my soul.>3. C <To prehistoric hunters the moon overhead was as unerring asheartbeat. Theyknew that every 29 days it became full-bellied and brilliant, then sickened and died,and then was reborn. They knew the waxing moon appeared larger and higher overhead after each succeeding sunset. They knew the waning moon rose later each nightuntil it vanished in the sunrise.>4. B <Still, it tugs at our minds. If we unexpectedly encounter thefull moon, huge andyellow over the horizon, we are helpless but to stare back at its commanding presence.>5. B <I learned about its gifts one July evening in the mountains.My car had mysteriously stalled, and I was stranded and alone.> 6. B <To watch the moon move inexorably higher is to find an unusualstillness withinourselves.>7. D <On that July night, I watched the moon for an hour or two, andthen got backinto the car, turned the key in the ignition and heard the engine start, just as mysteriously as it had stalled a few hours earlier.>8. A <I return often to the rising moon. I am drawn especially whenevents crowd easeand clarity of vision into a small corner of my life.>9. A <Of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and of Shakespeare, whoseLorenzo declaims in The Merchant of Venice, //How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon thisbank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music/Creep in our ears." I wonder iftheir verse and music, like the music of crickets, are in some way voices of the moon.>10.A<The whole passage.>B.Global understanding and logical structuresComplete the following notes with the information, from the text:1. The author often climbs the hill near his home at night to watchthe drama of themoonrise because it can restore in him a quiet and clarity that the city spends toofreely.2. To the author the different mood and color of the moon are:A. In autumn: broad, confident harvestB. In spring: shy, mistyC. In winter: lonely, whiteD. In summer: smoke-smudged orange3. A. To prehistoric hunters the moon overhead was as unerring asheartbeat.B. To contemporary people live indoors few can say what time themoon willrise tonight.C. But if we unexpectedly encounter the full moon, we are helplessbut to stareback at its commanding presence.4. The moon has gifts to bestow upon those who watch it:Example: One July evening in the mountains, the author's car mysteriouslystalled, and he was stranded and alone.He took the advantage to watch the moonrise for an hour or two.When he got back into the car, the engine started just as mysteriously as it hadstalled a few hours earlier.5. Later on the author often returns to the rising moon when eventscrowd ease anclarity of vision into a small corner of my life.He listens to the sound of owls and cricketsand thinks the beautiful music and poems about the moon.6. At moonrise, people open the vents of feeling and exercise partsof our minds thatreason locks away by day.II. VOCABULARYA. Choose the best word from the four choices to complete each of the following sentences.1. B2. C3. A4. D5. A6. B7. A8. C9. A 10. BB. Choose the best word or expression from the list given for each blank. Use each wordor expression only once and make proper changes where necessary.1. swoop2. cricket3. smudged4. Stalled5. tugs at6. stay clear of7. slipped into8. crowded into9. loom up 10. stranded III. CLOZE1. just as2. permanent3. depend on4. phase5. shadow6. Resembling7. lunar8. closer9. illuminated 10. waningIV. TRANSLATIONPut the following parts into Chinese.V. ORAL PRACTICE AND DISCUSSION1. How does the author describe the moonrise? Is it the same as you see it?The sun had set, and I was watching what seemed to be the bright-orange glowof a forest fire beyond a ridge to the east. Suddenly, the ridge itself seemed to burstinto flame. Then, the rising moon, huge and red and grotesquely misshapen by thedust and sweat of the summer atmosphere,loomed up out of the woods.Distorted thus by the hot breath of earth, the moon seemed ill-tempered and imperfect……But as the moon lifted off the ridge it gathered firmness and authority. Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive yellow. It seemed to drawlight out of the darkening earth, for as it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer. By the time the moon stood clear of the horizon, full chested and round andthe color of ivory, the valleys were deep shadows in the landscape……The drama took an hour. Moonrise is slow and serried with subtleties.2. Moonrise is a natural phenomenon. The main part of this essay is the description ofit full of the author's emotions and thoughts associated with it. Pick out the author'smost beautiful descriptions with similes, metaphors and personification.From this hill I have watched many moons rise. Each one had its own mood.There have been broad, confident harvest moons in autumn, shy, misty moons inspring; lonely, white winter moons rising into the utter silence of an ink-black skyand smoke-smudged orange moons over the dry fields of summer. Each, like fine music, excited my heart and then calmed my soul.<And others referring to the first question.>3. One July evening in the mountains, the author's car mysteriously stalled, and he wasstranded and alone, but after watching the moonrise for an hour or two the enginestarted mysteriously again. Do you think it was the spell of the rising moon?Open.4. We Chinese often associated the full moon with family reunion, our hometown andour motherland if we are abroad. Can you tell what people do when we Chinese celebrate the festivals associated with the moon such as the Lantern Festival and theMid-Autumn Festival? And why?Open.5. Find out the famous Chinese poems about the moon, and try to translate the following poem into English.李白诗一首床前明月光, Before my bedThere is bright moonlight疑是地上霜. So that it seemsLike frost on the ground.举头望明月, Lifting my headI watch the bright moon,低头思故乡. Lowering my headI dream that I'm home.Another poem for reference:李白词一首秋风清,秋月明The autumn wind is lightThe autumn moon is bright;落叶聚还散 Fallen leaves gather but then disperse,寒鸦栖复惊 A cold crow roosts but again he stirs;相思相见知何日 I think of you, and wonder when I'll see you again? 此时此夜难为情 At such an hour,on such a night,cruel is love's pain. Translation of the Text月亮升起来彼得·斯坦哈特我家附近有座小山.晚上,我常爬上山去.此时,城市的喧嚣成了遥远的低语.在这黑夜的静谧中,我可以尽情分享蟋蟀的欢乐,感受猫头鹰的自信.可我上山是来看月出的,因为这可以让我重新得到在城市中失去的宁静与清新.在这座山上,我已欣赏过许多次月亮升起的景象.每一次月的姿容脾性都有所不同.秋天,满月如轮,充满自信;春天,月亮灰蒙蒙,羞羞答答;冬天,银白的月亮挂在漆黑的、悄无声息的夜空中,显得那般孤寂;夏天,橘黄的月似被烟尘笼罩,俯瞰干燥的田野.每一种月亮,都像美妙的音乐,震动我的心灵,令我的灵魂平静.观月自古有之.在远古的猎人眼里,月亮如同心跳一样准确无误.他们知道每29天,月亮都要变得明亮饱满,然后萎缩、消失,然后又再复活;他们知道,月盈期间,每经一次日落,头顶的月亮就会显得更高更大;他们还知道月亏期间,月亮每晚都要迟迟升起,待到日出才落.他们竟能从经验中了解到月亮的行踪变化,真可谓心深意广.但我们这些人却因深居室内,与月亮失去了联系.城市炫目的街灯、污浊的烟尘掩盖了夜晚的天空.虽然人类已在月亮上行走过,但月亮对于我们却更加陌生了.有几人能说得出今晚月亮会几时升起.但无论怎样,月亮依旧牵动我们的心灵.倘若我们偶尔遇见一轮黄灿灿的满月高悬中天,谁都会禁不住停下来凝神仰望她尊贵的姿容.而月亮也向注视她的人赐予厚礼.我了解到她的馈赠是在山间七月的一个夜晚.我的车突然熄火,将我孤身一人网在山中.太阳已经西沉,我看见东边山头涌出一团橘红色的明光,好像森林起火一般,俄而山头自己也似乎迸出火焰,一会儿,大大的月亮涨红着脸,从密林中鬼魅似地钻了出来,夏天空气中弥漫的尘雾与汗气把它变得丑陋不堪.大地灼热的呼吸扭曲了它,它变得格外暴噪,不再完美.附近农舍的狗紧X地狂吠起来,以为这团奇怪的光亮叫醒了野草中的魔鬼.然而当月亮缓缓升起,离开山头,它变得坚定、威严;它的面孔也由红变成了橘红,又变成金色,最后是平静的明黄色.它似乎从渐暗的大地中吸取了光明,因为随着它的升起,下面的丘陵山谷愈来愈黯淡朦胧.待到皓月当空,满月如盘,闪烁着象牙般乳白的清辉,山谷便成了风景中一片片幽深的阴影.那些狗明白了那团光原是它们熟悉的月亮,也安定下来,停止了吼叫.霎时间,我也觉得信心倍增,心情舒畅,近乎笑了起来.这奇特的景观持续了一个小时.月出是缓慢的,充满神奇.观看月出,我们得回到过去那种对时间的耐心中去.观看月亮不可阻挡地升到空中就能让我们内心安宁,我们的神思能让我们看到宇宙的广漠和大地的宽阔,能让我们忘掉自己.我们觉得自身渺小,却又深感大自然的厚待.月色下,我们看不到生活中坚硬的棱角.山坡在月光下如同笼上了柔和的轻纱,一片银白;海水在月光下碧蓝而静谧;我们在月光下也不再像白日那般精于算计,而是沉醉于自然的情感中.这个时候,奇特的事发生了.在那个七月的夜晚,我看了一两个小时的月景后,回到车中,转动钥匙点火,发动机居然响了起来,就像几个小时前熄火那般突然而神秘.我驱车沿着山路回家,肩上披着明月,心灵一片宁静.后来我常回到山上观月,尤其是在接踵而来的事使我身心疲惫、头晕眼花时.这种境况经常发生在秋天,这时我就登上那座小山,守候猎人的月亮出现,等着那金色的圆月俯照大地,为黑夜带来光明.一只猫头鹰自山头俯冲下来,静悄悄地如一团火焰闪过,一只蟋蟀在草丛长鸣.我想起了诗人和音乐家,想起了贝多芬的"月光奏鸣曲〞和莎士比亚笔下《威尼斯商人》中洛伦佐的话:"月光沉睡在这岸边多么轻柔!/我们要坐在这里让音乐之声/潜入我们的耳内.〞我不知道他们的诗篇与音乐,连同蟋蟀的歌声,是否都可算作月的声音.想到这些,我那些城市化的昏乱心绪也融化在了夜的幽静之中.恋人和诗人在夜里能找到生活更深刻的意义.其实我们都爱问一些深刻的问题——我们的祖先是什么?我们的命运在哪里?我们不喜欢那些统治着白天世界的刻板的几何教科书,都愿意沉溺于永远找不到答案的谜团中.在夜里,我们都成了哲人和神秘主义者.月出之时,当我们放慢自己的思想,让它跟随天围的脚步,一种心醉神迷的感觉就会流遍全身.我们会打开情感的窗口,会让白天被理智锁住的那部分思绪尽情奔涌.我们有越过遥远的时空,听见远古猎人的低语,再次看到很久以前的恋人与诗人眼中的世界.Lesson TwoEthics and CompetitivenessPreparing to ReadTips for the teacherThe text is about ethics in business; hence the purpose of this exercise is tolet the studentsunderstand how important ethics is in doing business. The teacher can adopt several steps achievingthe aim. First, let the students talk about the various businesses that involve ethics. Second, let thestudents understand the dangers of illegal business practices in American or Chinese corporations,so that the students' interest in the text will be aroused.Background Information1. Introduction to the author and the text: John F. Akers, born on 28 Dec. 1934 chairman and CEOof IBM 1985-1993.A graduate of Yale, Mr. Akers joined IBM in 1960 as a sales trainee in San Franciscofollowing active duty as a Navy carrier pilot. After various marketing assignments, he was namedpresident of the Data Processing Division, then IBM's largest domestic marketing unit, in 1974at age 39. He became a vice president in 1976, a senior vice president in 1982 and president in1983. This article "Ethics andcompetitiveness - putting first things first" was first published in1989 in Sloan Management Review, winter, 69-71.2. American Education System:Most Americans attend twelve years of primary and secondaryschool. With a secondary school "'high school"> diploma or certificate, a student can enter college,university, vocational <job training> school, secretarial school, and other professional schools.Primary and Secondary School: Begins around age six for U.S. children. They attend five orsix years of primary school. Next they go to secondary school, which consists of either two three-year programs or a three-year and a four-year program. These are called "middle school" or "juniorhigh school" and "senior high school" <often just called "high school">. Americans call thesetwelve years of primary and secondary school the first through twelfth "grades."Higher Education: After finishing high school <twelfth grade>, U.S. students may go on tocollege or university. College or university study is known as"higher education." You shouldfind out which level of education in your country corresponds to the twelfth grade in the U.S.A.You also should ask your educational advisor or guidance counselor whether you must spend anextra year or two preparing for U.S. admission. In some countries, employers and the governmentdo not recognize a U.S. education if a student entered a U.S. college or university before he orshe could enter university at home.3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow <1807-1882>:American poet, one of the mostpopular andcelebrated poets of his time. Born in Portland, Maine<then in Massachusetts>, Longfellow waseducated at Bowdoin College. After graduating in 1825 he traveled in Europe in preparationfor a teaching career. He taught modern languages at Bowdoin from 1829 to 1835. In late 1835,during a second trip to Europe, Longfellow's wife, Mary Storer Potter, died in Rotterdam, theNetherlands. Longfellow returned to the United States in 1836 and began teaching at HarvardUniversity.In 1843 he remarried, to Fanny Appleton. After retiring from Harvard in 1854,Longfellow devoted himself exclusively to writing. He was devastated when in 1861 his secondwife was burned to death in a household accident. He commemorated her shortly before his owndeath with the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" <1879>. In 1884 a bust of Longfellow was placed inthe Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; he was the first American to be thus honored.《人生颂》——年青人的心对歌者说的话朗费罗不要在哀伤的诗句里告诉我:"人生不过是一场幻梦!〞灵魂睡着了,就等于死了,事物的真相与外表不同.人生是真切的!人生是实在的!它的归宿决不是荒坟;"你本是尘土,必归于尘土〞, 这是指躯壳,不是指灵魂.我们命定的目标和道路不是享乐,也不是受苦;而是行动,在每个明天都超越今天,跨出新步.智艺无穷,时光飞逝;这颗心,纵然勇敢坚强,也只如鼙鼓,闷声敲动着,一下又一下,向坟地送丧.世界是一片辽阔的战场,人生是到处扎寨安营;莫学那听人驱策的哑畜,做一个威武善战的英雄!别指望将来,不管它多可爱!把已逝的过去永久掩埋!行动吧-趁着活生生的现在!心中有赤心,头上有真宰!伟人的生平启示我们:我们能够生活得高尚,而当告别人世的时候,留下脚印在时间的沙上;也许我们有一个兄弟航行在庄严的人生大海,遇险沉了船,绝望的时刻,会看到这脚印而振作起来.那么,让我们起来干吧,对任何命运要敢于担戴;不断地进取,不断地追求,要善于劳动,善于等待.A Psalm of LifeHenry Wadsworth LongfellowTell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou art,to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul.Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,Is our destined end or way;But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave,Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave.In the world's broad field of battle,In the bivouac of life,Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'evhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us. Footprints on the sand of time.; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.NotesKey to ExercisesI. Reading Comprehension1. The issue Akers discusses is the relationship between ethics and competitiveness.2. When they think of competitiveness, they should think not just of seeking their own selfish advantage, but of striving to improve living standards for all. When they think of ethics, they should think not just as managers focusing on business ethics, but as citizens of a larger society.3. Ethics and competitiveness are inseparable because we compete as a society.4.The greater the measure of mutual trust and confidence in the ethics of a society, the greater its economic strength.5. First, we should fortify the practical ethical buttresses; second, ethical instruction must include ademanding study of history and literature; and above all we should keep our priorities straight.6.They are role modelsthe honor system, and codes of conduct.7. We should start with a clear-cut study of the past, because our ethical standards come out of the past.8.What bothers Akers is that they have missed the humane lessons in individual ethical conduct,which can be found in the annals of world history, the biographies of great men and women and works of literature.9. He thinks that the good of an entire society counts more than that of any single corporation.10. We remember him because he did not see winning or self-advancement or even life itself as the only thing. He saw his newly born nation greater than himself.II. Structure of the text1. Introduction<Paras.1-5>A central subject in international business competition is ethics. We are urged to look atethics and competitiveness with a wide angle of vision.Ethics and competitiveness are inseparable, they are important not only in running acompany. but also in running and managing a country. 2. Body <Paras.6-23>1> Ethical buttressesA. We should fortify the practical ethical buttresses that help allof us know and understand and do exactly what is required of us.The simplest and most powerful buttress is the role model.B. There are other ethical buttresses such as the institutionalbuttresses honor system.C. There are professional standards and business codes of conduct.2> Ethics teachingA. Ethical instruction is important in a business school or anywhereelse in the universities, but to take ethical examination ofworkplace safety, consumer protection environmental safeguards,and the rights of the individual employee within the organizationis equally important.B. We should start from kindergarten to twelfth grade with a clear-cutstudy of the past because our ethical standards come out of thepast-out of ourinheritances as a people: religious, philosophical, historical.C. The more we know of the history of US, the more sure-footedly wecan inculcate ethical conduct in the future.3> Putting first things first: keep our sense of order straight3. Conclusion<Paras.24>By taking advice of the three suggestions, we shall go far toward discharging our responsibilities asmanagers and as human beings.V. VocabularyA.l. ludicrous2. endowed 3. consequences 4. conflicting 5. safety6.count7. falsified8. fortified9. inculcate10. vexingB.1. D2. C3. B4. D5. A6. C7. D8. A9. B10. BVI. Cloze1. devoted2. Concern3. Threatens4. Perhaps5. respectable6. address7. Defined8. Occupation9. Which10. Behind11. perfectly12. Refer13. Benefit14. Personal15. assess16. commit 17. Being18. Lower19. Prosecute20. Summon道德和竞争力John. F. Akers1 我想谈谈国际经济竞争中的一个核心问题:道德.在一开始我想奉劝我们所有的管理层人员应该以宽阔的视野来看待这两个词,即道德和竞争力.在我们想到竞争力的时候,我们不应该只想到像美国人,欧洲人或日本人那样追求我们自己的利益,贪得无厌;而是应该像管理者们那样在日益相互依存的世界里心中怀有提高全人类的生活水平的大志,努力工作,争取成功.而在我们想到道德的时候,我们不该像那些只是把重点放在自己的狭窄领地即商业道德上的管理者,而是应该像一个宽广社会里的公民.2 道德和竞争力是不可分的.我们处在一个竞争的社会中.没有哪一个社会的竞争会因为下列情形而长久和成功的:人们彼此背后相互使坏;互相偷窃;由于缺乏诚信而事事公证;一点争吵就会诉诸法律;或政府为了保证诚实的商业运行而制定很多各种各样束缚手脚的法规.3 这不仅仅会成为公司经营中令人头痛的事情,也会让国家成为一个浪费、低效和缺乏竞争力的国家.一个不可逃避的事实是:在一个道德社会中人们之间相互信任和忠诚度越高,它的经济力量就越强.4 我并不是说我们美国这里天要塌下来.我不认为在我们过去美好的时光中道德水准已经很高了而我们现在是道德滑坡.当然,我们确实存在道德和竞争力的问题,这一点无可质疑.我们一直都看到关于不道德行为的报导:教会领导层聚会时发生偷窃;华尔街上靠内部##消息发财的掮客;各种政客和权利贩子;剽窃的法学专业的学生;篡改研究数据的医学教授;贩卖##情报的国防部雇员.但我们大多数人都同意托马斯·杰弗逊关于所有人都生来具有道德意识的观点——个整日耕作的普通农民可以和一个大学教授一样具有道德意识.如杰弗逊一样,我们可以相信大街上的入,不论这大街是在阿蒙克,在旧金山,或者牛津,伦敦,巴黎或东京.5 这种道德意识不是凭空而来的,也不会自动永远存在下去.每一代人都要让它保存并发扬光大.为此,我们每个人都要想出些策略.下面是三个建议.道德基础6 首先,我们要加强日常生活中的道德基础的培养,让我们从孩提时代起就明白并理解,继而按照要求行事.最简单也是最有用的道德基石就是榜样:父母或其他人言传身教为我们树立榜样,使我们明白是非好坏.在我一生所有的榜样中,我认为起作用时间最长的就是我的祖父了,一个坚强的新英格兰地区中学校长.我的房间里挂着他的肖像.直到今天,每当我走过他的肖像前我都会挺直腰板,还要检查一下我的领带是否打好了.7 还有许多其它方面的道德基础.有些尽管有一点傲慢和世俗但却是简单的信条:"童子军是可信的,忠诚的,助人的,友好的,礼貌的,善良的,听话的,快乐的,节俭的,勇敢的,整洁的和虔诚的〞;或者"军校生不会说谎,欺骗或偷盗或容忍其他人欺骗和说谎与偷盗.〞有些道德行为已经形成制度化,如诚信制度.大学里的学生依照诚信制度来约束自己,保证不剽窃和考试作弊.我觉得好笑的是,甚至在神学院,法学院和哲学系里,更不用说大学的其它科系了,在考试的时候学院要雇来监考者在走廊里踱来踱去以防止有人考试时候偷看笔记或抄袭邻座.令人遗撼的是,在杰弗逊提倡先在弗吉尼亚大学实行诚信制度的150年后,并非所有的美国大学和学院都采纳了这一制度.8 最后,还有从业标准和商业行为规X,它们都对下列事情有严格的规定:如股票内部交易,馈赠和娱乐,回扣与利益冲突.如果认为这些道德准则会解决我们所有的问题就太天真了.但是,若想没有这些明确的要求和了解违反这些要求引起的后果,人们也一样会按道德准则行为,那这种想法也同样是天真的.我们的学校能教授道德吗?9 到了该认真考虑学校的道德课的时候了.这里我不仅仅指商学院的研究生院.众人皆知约翰·山德将捐赠给哈佛商学院近3 000万美元用于其道德课的教学和研究.我们也知道麻省理工的斯罗恩学院院长兰斯特·苏罗和其他教育家已经对这个举措表示了公开的置疑.10 先弄清楚我们在说什么吧.很多商界人士在面对大学生听众时都对他们的一些脱口而出的断言感到吃惊:如在南非做生意、为军队制造武器、反对兴建日托所、建核工厂、甚至谋取利润都显然是不道德的.若想让年轻人清楚地了解这些问题的复杂性——而这些问题是不能用伪善的答案去搪塞的——还要做大量的工作.相反,这些问题需要一个明确的定义和敏锐的分析,需要对公司的责任有清醒的认识,而公司对员工,股东与国家所持的责任有时是相互冲突的,需要经历艰难的、甚至痛苦的抉择.11 我完全赞同在商学院和大学的其它系所进行这种道德教育,它可以加强学生们的这种分析能力.我也赞同对工作场所安全性、消费者保护、环境监督与团体内部员工个人的权利等方面进行的道德审查.12 但想一想塞缪尔·约翰逊曾经说的话吧:如果一个人不能区分好恶,"他一出我们的家门,我们就数羹匙是否少了.〞如果一个工商管理硕士生不能区分诚实与犯罪,说谎和讲真话,那么商学院就完全有可能培养不出来一个个非常虔诚敬业的学生.13 对于为什么说偷偷摸摸,行骗欺诈,盗窃财物这样的事情是不好的,这种最基础和根本的教育,在工商管理学院里进行就太晚了,内容也太简单了.这里不是开始这些课的地方.开始的地方应该是幼儿园.14 可以肯定的是,对于是否在上课时进行祈祷存在着很多和宪法相关的麻烦问题与其它问题.但我们不需要等到所有的问题有了答案——若真有这一天——再开始学校里的道德教育.我们可以现在就开始,从幼儿园到中学,但不是硬塞给学生们一些模糊的抽象"价值观〞.我是指我们应该对过去的历史有个清楚明了的了解.我们的道德准则始于过去,始于我们的民族传统:##,哲学和历史.我们对于过去了解得越多,我们就越能在未来踏踏实实地教授道德准则.15 参议员丹尼尔说,如果你想了解塔米·贝克你就得读辛克莱·路易斯的作品;如果你想了解股票内部交易,读读易达·塔贝尔的著作;如果想了解在弱肉强食的地方掠夺者获利而社会遭殃的情况下如何行事,读读霍布斯和洛克的书.若想了解社会的要求和个体良知的冲突,读读梭罗的论公民的不服从和索福克洛斯的安提格涅;若想了解礼仪,读读孔子的书,若想了解勇气,节制,真诚和公平,读读亚里斯多德的书或圣经.16 在我听说美国的高中生不太知道或完全不知道乔叟或惠特曼或美国内战或1日约中的预言书时,我担心的不是他们的无知,而是他们丢失了我们在世界历史、名人传记与富于高度想象力的文学作品中能够发现的蕴藏在一个个道德行为中的高尚的人文素养.17 一个古典文学作家曾定义历史为"实例中的哲学〞.亨利·朗费罗,美国的牛津城布拉特大街上一个很有名的居民,是这样优雅地总结的:伟人的生平启示我们:我们能够生活得高尚,而当告别人世的时候,留下脚印在时间的沙上.首要的事情先做18 我的第三个建议是,牢记顺序,最重要的事情先做.19 我们都听到过目光短浅的生意人把下面这句话当作是朗巴迪说的:"成功不是最重要的,但是唯一要做的事情.〞对于鼓舞团队±气,这句话确实很好,但作为商业理念,它就是一派胡言.这里还有一段稍好一点的话:朗巴迪曾经希望他的队员有三种忠诚:对上帝,对家庭,还有对〔绿湾包装工〕橄榄球球队,"并按此顺序〞.20 他知道哪些事情更重要.商界人士可以毫不掩饰地为他们自己的公司而感到骄傲.但整个社会的利益超越了任何一个公司的利益.整个世界的道德秩序超越了任何一个单一的国家.一个人如果不了解商业在更大X围内的地位,他就不可能成为优秀的商界领袖,或好医生,或好的律师、工程师.。
研究生英语综合教程下册1-5课文及翻译Unit 1 The Hidden Side of Happiness3 This and other promising findings about the life-changing effects of crises are the province of the new science of post-traumatic growth. This fledgling field has already proved the truth of what once passed as bromide: What doesn't kill you can actually make you stronger. Post-traumatic stress is far from the only possible outcome. In the wake of even the most terrifying experiences, only a small proportion of adults become chronically troubled. More commonly, people rebound-or even eventually thrive.诸如此类有关危机改变一生的发现有着可观的研究前景,这正是创伤后成长这一新学科的研究领域。
这一新兴领域已经证实了曾经被视为陈词滥调的一个真理:大难不死,意志弥坚。
创伤后压力绝不是唯一可能的结果。
在遭遇了即使最可怕的经历之后,也只有一小部分成年人会受到长期的心理折磨。
更常见的情况是,人们会恢复过来—甚至最终会成功发达。
Unit2 Commercialization and Changes in Sportsmercialization has not had a dramatic effect on the format and goals of most sports. In spite of the influence of spectators, what has occurred historically is that sports have maintained their basic format. Innovations have been made within this framework, rather than completely dismantling the design of a game. For example, the commercialization of the Olympic Games has led to minor rule changes in certain events, but the basic structure of each Olympic sport has remained much the same as it was before the days of corporate endorsements and the sale of television rights. 商业化对于大多数体育运动的结构和目标没有太大的影响。
Unit1Task11.这个节目伦敦演出结束后将在各省作巡回演出。
The show will tour the provinces after it closes in London.2.Nancy被窗外的鸟鸣声唤醒。
Nancy woke to the sound of birds outside her window.3.破产的耻辱有可能会困扰他后半生。
The stigma of being a bankrupt is likely to haunt him for the reat of his life.4.我们周围从来没有故意破坏公物的人。
We’ve never had so much trouble with vandals around here.5.未上漆的木质家具会风化成灰色。
The unpainted wooden furniture will weathers to a gray color.6.在最近的炸弹袭击后,街上出现了示威游行。
There have been demonstrations in the streets in the wake of the recent bomb attack.7.术语纸板城市被创造用来描述那些住在纸板盒子的无家可归者生活的社区。
The term“cardboard”was coined to describe these community of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.8.问题是这些限制仍然存在,而其他的都已经改变。
The trouble is that these restricts have remained while other things have changed.9.这家公司设法勉强度过了经济衰退。
The company just managed to weather the recession.10.文艺复兴时期的艺术不是他的擅长的领域,他专门研究现代艺术。
A Beautiful Mind1.John Forbes Nash, Jr. –mathematical genius, inventor of a theory ofrationed behavior, visionary of the thinking machine—had been sitting with his visitor, also a mathematician, for nearly half an hour. It was late on a weekday afternoon in the spring of 1959, and, though it was only May, uncomfortably warm. Nash was slumped in an armchair in one corner of the hospital lounge, carelessly dressed in a nylon shirt that hung limply over h is unbelted trousers. His powerful frame was slack as a rag doll’s, his finelymolded features expressionless. He had been staring dully at a spot immediately in front of the left foot of Harvard professor George Mackey, hardly moving except to brush his long dark hair away from his forehead in a fitful, repetitive motion. His visitor sat upright, oppressed by the silence, acutely conscious that the doors to the room were locked. Mackey finally could contain himself no longer. His voice was slightly querulous, but he strained to be gentle. “How could you,” began Mackey, “how could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof… how could you believe that extraterrestrials are sending you message? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world? How could you…?”小约翰·福布斯·纳什,数学天才、理性行为理论创立者、预见会思考的机器出现的预言者,已经和他的同样是数学家的来访者一起坐了差不多半个小时.那是1959年春季一个工作日的傍晚时分,虽然才是5 月,天气却很热,令人不太舒服。
纳什颓然坐在医院会客室一角的扶手椅上,身上随意穿着的那件尼龙衬衫,松松垮垮地盖在他没有系皮带的长裤上。
他的魁梧身躯现在就像一个布娃娃一样缺乏活力,他的线条优美细致的五官没有任何表情。
他一直目1光呆滞地盯着哈佛教授乔治·麦基左脚前方不远的地方,除了一次次重复着将垂在前额的略长的黑发拨开的动作,他几乎一动不动。
麦基正襟危坐,被沉默压得透不过气来,并且非常清楚地意识到会客室的所有门都锁上了。
麦基再也控制不住自己。
他尽量使语气温和,但听上去仍有些愠怒。
“你,一个数学家,”他开始说道,“一个致力于研究理性和逻辑证明的人,怎么能相信外星人正在给你发送消息呢?怎么能相信你被来自太空的外星人选中要来拯救世界呢?怎么能……”2.Nash looked up at last and fixed Mackey with an unblinking stare as cool and di spassionate as that of any bird or snake. “Because,” Nash said slowly in his soft, reasonable southern drawl, as if talking to himself, “the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriou sly.”纳什终于抬起头,用类似某种鸟类或者蛇一样冰冷而不动声色的目光,紧紧盯着麦基。
“因为,”他慢慢地回答,带着温和适度的南方人特有的慢条斯理的语气,好像自言自语一般,“我的有关超自然生物的想法出现在我的脑海里的方式,是和我的数学思想一样的,所以我会认真对待。
”3.The young genius from Bluefield, West Virginia—handsome, arrogant, and highly eccentric—burst onto the mathematical scene in 1948. Over the next decade, a decade as notable for its supreme faith in human rationality as for its dark anxieties about mankind’s survival, Nash proved himself, in the words of the eminent geometer Mikhail Gromov, “the most remarkable mathematicia n of the second half of the century”. Games of strategy, economic rivalry, computer architecture, the shape of the universe, the geometry of imaginary spaces, the mystery of prime numbers—all2engaged his wide-ranging imagination. His ideas were of the deep and wholly unanticipated kind that pushes scientific thinking in new directions.这个来自西弗吉尼亚州布卢菲尔德的年轻天才——英俊、傲慢,而且非常古怪——在1948 年闯入数学界。
在接下来的十年,在那既以对人类理性抱有无上信念而著称,又以对人类生存怀有无尽忧虑而闻名的十年,纳什,用知名几何学家米克哈尔·格罗莫夫的话说,证明了自己是“20 世纪后半叶最杰出的数学家”。
策略博弈、经济竞争、计算机建筑学、宇宙的形状、虚构空间的几何学、素数的神秘,都是他广阔的想象力涉猎的领域。
他的想法属于那种非常深奥而又完全出人意料的类型,无疑会推动科学思考进入新的方向。
4.Geniuses, the mathematician Paul Halmos wrote, “are of two kinds: the ones who are just like all of us, but very much more so, and the ones who, apparently, have an extra human spark. We can all run, and some of us can run the mile in less than 4 minutes; but there is nothing that most of us can do that compares with the creation of the Great G-minor Fugue”. Nash’s genius was of that mysterious variety more often associated with music and a rt than with the oldest of all sciences: It wasn’t merely that his mind worked faster, that his memory was more retentive, or that his power of concentration was greater. The flashes of intuition were nonrational. Like other great mathematical intuitionist — Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, Jules Henri Poincare, Srinivasa Rammanujan — Nash saw the vision first; constructing the laborious proofs long afterward. But even after he’d try to explain some astonishing result, the actual route he had taken remained a mystery to others who tried to follow his reasoning. Donald Newman, a mathematician who knew Nash at MIT in the 1950s, used to say about him that “everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere on the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that3distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak”.数学家保罗·哈莫斯写道,天才“分为两种:一种就像我们大家一样,只是更为出色;另一种则是那些明显具备超凡人类灵感的人。