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中英文本
Freeman Dyson, physicist and big thinker, died on February 28th, aged 96.
物理学家、伟大的思想家弗里曼·戴森于2月28日逝世,享年96岁
There are, wrote Freeman Dyson towards the end of his long life, two different kinds of mathematicians. Some are birds, who fly high, surveying the broad vistas and spotting unexpected links between different bits of the mathematical landscape. Others are frogs, who prefer to be up close and on the ground, delighting in the details and the beauty of the flowers. He counted himself among the frogs, and started there.
弗里曼·戴森在他漫长生命的最后写道,世上有两种不同的数学家
At the age of 24 he made a fundamental contribution to the study of Diophantine equations, a branch of mathematics dating back to the ancient Greeks. A year later he resolved a tricky conundrum in quantum electrodynamics, a field so new that it had hardly existed when he was born. But already the airborne tendencies were stirring. He was fascinated by biology, engineering, international relations and, in particular, physics, at which he became a master. For him, it was an ideal subject. Its mathematical underpinnings might be abstruse and theoretical, but in the 20th century those theories handed blunt, world-changing power to nations that could master their applications.
24岁时,弗里曼对丢番图方程的研究做出了根本性的贡献,它是数学的一个分支,可追溯到古希腊
In the second world war, he applied his mathematics at Britain's Bomber Command to calculate the most destructive (but safe) formations for the planes to fly in. After the war, when he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he rubbed shoulders with both Albert Einstein, whose theorising on relativity he had revered since boyhood, and Robert Oppenheimer, who had developed the atomic bomb.
在第二次世界大战中,弗里曼在英国轰炸机司令部应用了他的数学,计算最具破坏性(但是得安全)的飞机飞行阵型
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词语解释
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1.prefer to较喜欢
Children universally prefer to live in peace and security, even if that means living with only one parent.
孩子们普遍愿意过平静安宁的生活,即便这意味着只能与单亲生活在一起
2.at the age of在...岁时
I became a ham radio operator at the age of eleven.
我在11岁时成了一名业余无线电操作员
3.date back to回溯至
The community's links with Syria date back to biblical times.
这个团体与叙利亚的关系可以追溯到《圣经》时代
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