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a book co-authored by Albert Einstein about

relativity.

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\p }4 X m0 ]“在书中物理学首次被比作一个侦探故事”,他感叹道,“那是一本用大号字体印刷的书。\started out comparing physics to a detective story,\he says,

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对于一个10岁的孩子来说,那一比喻真实太重要了。”That's very important at ten years old.\

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【5】“另一件事则与登载在《纽约时报》头版上的一篇文章有关。该文讲述的是因发现正电子而获得诺贝尔物理学奖的卡尔*安德森的故事,讲到他如何将一台

云室探测器带到山顶去做实验。

\New York Times about the winning of the Nobel Prize by Carl Anderson for discovering the positron. It told how he took a cloud chamber to the top of a

mountain.

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那可是我当时能想到的最浪漫的事—— 竟然把某种

实验仪器运到山顶观察事物。”

And that was the most romantic thing I could think of — to drag some instrument up there and see

something.\

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【6】后来,在高中期间,莱德曼开始和“三四个朋友”

放学后在化学实验室里转悠。

Later, during high school, Lederman began hanging

around the chemistry lab with \

friends\

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室里游荡或吹制玻璃器皿。”around and blow glass.\

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The lab assistant was \lively guy who let us fool

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莱德曼认为,正是这些友谊,而不是什么想法所产生

的吸引力,使他迷恋上了科学研究。

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It was these friendships, more than any conceptual fascination, that kept his interest in science

alive.

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【7】但是直到他从城市学院毕业,参军三年后退伍,

进入研究生院,他才最终建立起作为一个初露头角的

科学家的自信心。

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But it wasn't until graduate school — after finishing City College and spending three years

in the Army — that he finally developed self-confidence as a budding scientist.

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【8】他说,在埋头几个月准备资格考试后,一天他回到实验室,“有一个人一边擦地板,一边用意大利语

唱歌,我说:‘噢,一个新来的管理员’。

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One day, he says, he came back to the laboratory after spending a few months studying for his qualifying exams, and \was a guy mopping the floor and singing in Italian, and I said, 'Oh, a

new janitor.'

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当我走进实验室时,他说了些我听不懂的话,我对他

说:‘哦,当心电线——别弄湿了’。”