4-6单元翻译

研究生英语精读教程(上)

Unit4

①[ 1 ] The story of an anguished* love affair between Albert Einstein and the woman

who would later become his first wife has emerged in newly disclosed correspondence* between them.

[1] 新近披露的艾伯特·爱因斯坦与意中人（此人后来成为他的元配）之间的来往信件，向人们展示了这对情侣饱含辛酸的爱情经历。

[ 2 ] Many of the letters describe the love between the young scientist and his

①future wife, Mileva Maric; the pain associated with his mother's vehement*

disapproval of the relationship; and their excitement over the impending birth of a child.

[2] 有许多信件都叙述了这位年轻科学家和他未婚妻米莱娃· 玛丽克之间的爱情，叙述了因为爱因斯坦的母亲拼命反对这门亲事而引起他俩的痛苦心情，还叙述了他俩为孩子的即将出世油然而生的兴奋心情。

[ 3 ] The fate of the child, a girl, however, remains a mystery. She was born before

the couple married in 1903 and there apparently is no record of what became of her.

[3] 然而，这个女孩后来的命运如何依然是个谜。她是在这对夫妇于1903年结婚前生下的，而且对她后来的情况显然没有记载。

[ 4 ] Intertwined* with the disclosures of a difficult romance are fragments of Einstein's thought as he struggled toward confidence in his concept of relativity

[4] 与所披露的艰难的罗曼史交织在一起的是爱因斯坦满怀信心地为自己的相对论概念而努力奋斗的思想片断。

[ 5 ] Einstein and Maric, a Serb* born in a region of Hungary* that is now part of Yugoslavia*, became friends in 1896 while studying together at the Federal Technical Institute in Zurich*. In subsequent years they wrote frequently as

Einstein's efforts to find work and Maric's visits home caused many separations.

[5] 爱因斯坦与玛丽克( 她出生在当时匈牙利的塞尔维亚地区，现为南斯拉夫的一部分。) 是在1896 年交上朋友的。当时他俩正一起在苏黎世的联邦理工学院学习，在后来的许多岁月中，因爱因斯坦为找工作奔波，玛丽克为回家探亲而造成多次分离，所以他们通信频繁。

[ 6 ] In his letters, Einstein confided* in her his efforts to participate in the revolution taking place in many fields of physics, including the nature of light, relative movement and molecular phenomenon.

[6] 爱因斯坦在信中向玛丽克吐露，自己正投身于物理学的许多领域( 其中包括光的特性、相对运动和分子现象) 内发生的革命。

[ 7 ] According to Dr. John Stachel, a professor of physics at Boston University who is editor of the Einstein papers, Maric appears to have been more of "a sounding

①board" than a contributor to Einstein's ideas.

[7] 据波士顿大学物理学教授、爱因斯坦论文集的编辑约翰·施塔赫尔博士说，看起来，与其说玛丽克是爱因斯坦思想的贡献者，不如说是爱因斯坦思想的“共鸣者”。

[ 8 ] In a letter to Maric in 1899, when he was 20 years old, Einstein anticipated his first theory of relativity, published six years later. It came in a period when many physicists still believed that space was filled with an invisible medium* through which light waves could be propagated*. They called the medium a "luminiferous* ether”*.

[8] 1899 年爱因斯坦20 岁。在给玛丽克的一封信中，他提前谈论了自己6年后发表的早期

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