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1、双语：霍金访谈录双语：霍金访谈录 Like Einstein, he is as famous for his story as for his science.他和爱因斯坦一样，人生经历与科学成就同样为人乐道。At the age of 21, the British physicist Stephen Hawking was found to have 2)amyotrophic lateral sclerosi Lou Gehrigs disease. While A.L.S. is usually fatal within five year Dr. Hawking lived on
2、and flourished, producing some of the most important cosmological research of his time.21岁时，英国物理学家史蒂芬霍金被发现患上肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症（简称ALS），也称卢伽雷氏病。ALS患者通常会在五年之内死亡，而霍金博士却顽强地活了下来，还进行了有关宇宙学的一些最为重要的研究，硕果累累。In the 1960 with Sir Roger Penrose, he used mathematics to 3)explicate the properties of black holes. In 1973,
3、 he applied Einsteins general theory of relativity to the principles of 4)quantum mechanics. And he showed that black holes were not completely black but could leak radiation and eventually explode and disappear, a finding that is still 5)reverberating through physics and cosmology.20世纪60年代，他与罗杰潘洛斯爵
4、士一起利用数学法解释了黑洞的属性。1973年，他把爱因斯坦的广义相对论应用于量子力学原理。他还推理证明了黑洞并不是完全漆黑一团，它会对外泄露辐射，最终发生爆炸并消失，该发现在物理学和宇宙学领域至今仍具有深远意义。Dr. Hawking, in 1988, tried to explain what he knew about the boundaries of the universe to the 6)lay public in A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes. The book sold more than 10
5、million copies and was on best-seller lists for more than two years.1988年，霍金博士在自己撰写的时间简史：从大爆炸到黑洞一书中着力向普通民众解释他所了解的有关宇宙边界的知识。该书卖出了1000多万本，持续两年多稳居畅销书榜单。Today, at 69, Dr. Hawking is one of the longest-living survivors of A.L.S., and perhaps the most inspirational. Mostly paralyzed, he can speak only thr
6、ough a computerized voice simulator.如今，69岁的霍金博士是ALS症患者中最长寿的幸存者之一，可能也是最鼓舞人心的一位。他的大部分身体已瘫痪，只能通过由电脑控制的声音模拟器说话。On a screen attached to his wheelchair, commonly used words flash past him. With a cheek muscle, he signals an electronic sensor in his eyeglasses to transmit instructions to the computer. In t
7、his way he slowly builds sentences; the computer transforms them into the metallic, 7)otherworldly voice familiar to Dr. Hawkings 8)legion of fans.他的轮椅上安装了一个屏幕，屏幕上会闪现常用字词。他用颊肌对眼镜上的电子传感器发送信号并对电脑发送指令。通过这种方式，他能够缓慢地造句；电脑把这些指令转变成另类的金属声，霍金博士的一大批崇拜者对这种声音再熟悉不过了。Its an exhausting and time-consuming process.
8、Yet this is how he stays connected to the world, directing research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, writing 9)prolifically for specialists and 10)generalists alike and lecturing to 11)rapt audiences from France to Fiji.这是一个既累人又耗时的过程。但这就是他与外界联系的方式，他以这种方式主管剑桥大学理
9、论宇宙学中心的研究工作，为专家和通才们撰写了大量著作，并给从法国到斐济的专注的听众做过讲座。Dr. Hawking came here in April at the invitation of a friend, the cosmologist Lawrence Kraus for a science festival sponsored by the Origins Project of Arizona State University. His lecture, “My Brief History,” was not all 12)quarks and black holes. At o
10、ne point, he spoke of the special joys of scientific discovery.霍金博士的朋友劳伦斯克劳斯是一位宇宙学家，4月份，霍金博士受其邀请来到这儿，参加由亚利桑那州立大学“起源项目”主办的科技节。他发表的题为“我的时间简史”的演讲并不全是夸克和黑洞。他一度谈及科学发现的特殊乐趣。The next afternoon, Dr. Hawking sat with me for a 13)rare interview. Well, a kind of interview, actually.第二天下午，霍金博士与我坐下来进行了一次非常有趣的访谈。
11、唔，也许能称得上访谈吧。Ten questions were sent to his daughter, Lucy Hawking, 40, a week before the meeting. So as not to exhaust her father, who has grown weaker since a near-fatal illness two years ago, Ms. Hawking read them to him over a period of days.会面前一周, 我将10个问题传送给霍金40岁的女儿露西霍金。两年前，霍金博士生了一场重病，生命垂危，之后身体状
12、况每况愈下。为了不让父亲过于劳累，霍金女士把这十个问题分几天念给父亲听。During our meeting, the physicist played back his answers. Only one exchange, the last, was spontaneous. Yet despite the limitation it was Dr. Hawking who wanted to do the interview in person rather than by e-mail.我们碰面的时候，这位物理学家回放了他对问题的回答。只有最后一个问题的答案是现场回答的。尽管存在这些限
13、制性因素，霍金博士本人仍坚持要做面对面的访谈，而不是通过邮件进行。Some background on the second query, the one about 14)extraterrestrials. For the past year, Lucy Hawking was writer 15)in residence at the Origins Project at Arizona State University. As part of her work, she and Paul Davie a physicist at Arizona State, started a con
14、test, “Dear Alien” inviting Phoenix schoolchildren to write essays about what they might say to space beings trying to contact Planet Earth.下面介绍一些有关第二个问题（与外星人有关）（编者注：此文为第一个问题）的背景信息。去年，露西霍金担任亚利桑那州立大学“起源项目”的驻校作家。作为工作的一部分，她与亚利桑那州立大学物理学家保罗戴维斯举办了一个以“亲爱的外星人”为主题的竞赛，邀请菲尼克斯的小学生们写文章，讲述自己会对那些试图与地球取得联系的外星人说点什么。
15、Now lets look at some of those questions.现在让我们来看看其中的一些问题。Q. At the beginning of May, your daughter, Lucy, and Paul Davie the Arizona State University physicist, sent a message into space from an Arizona schoolchild to potential extraterrestrials out there in the universe. Now, youve said elsewhere that you think its a bad idea for humans to make contact with other forms of life. Given thi did you suggest to Lucy that she not do it? Hypothetically, lets say
