STEPHEN HAWKING

史蒂芬·霍金

Persistent in his pursuit of knowledge,Stephen Hawking has unlocked new pathways of discovery and inspired people around the world.

出于對(duì)知識(shí)的不懈追求，史蒂芬·霍金揭開(kāi)了發(fā)現(xiàn)科學(xué)真相的新門路，激勵(lì)了全世界的人。

Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford England on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo on January 8th,1942.

1942年1月8日，史蒂芬·威廉·霍金出生在英格蘭牛津市，當(dāng)天正是伽利略逝世300周年紀(jì)念日。

At 17 years old,he entered Oxford University.

他17歲時(shí)進(jìn)入了牛津大學(xué)。

Stephen Hawking has admitted in many cases that he was not the most ambitious student.

史蒂芬·霍金多次承認(rèn)自己并不是最有志向的學(xué)生。

One day,he calculated that he spent about maybe an hour a day on schoolwork.

他曾在某一天計(jì)算出自己每天只花一小時(shí)處理課業(yè)。

In 1962,Hawking moved to Cambridge University for a PhD in cosmology and one year later was diagnosed with ALS,Lou Gehrig's disease.

1962年，霍金進(jìn)入劍橋大學(xué)攻讀宇宙學(xué)博士學(xué)位，一年后被確診患上了肌萎縮側(cè)索硬化癥

ALS is a progressive motor neuron disease,so over time the victim loses functionality of muscles.

肌萎縮側(cè)索硬化癥是一種漸進(jìn)性運(yùn)動(dòng)神經(jīng)元疾病，隨著時(shí)間的推移，患者會(huì)失去肌肉功能。

And over the past decades,Stephen Hawking has gradually lost the use of most of his muscles but his mind is quite keen.

經(jīng)過(guò)了數(shù)十年，霍金的大多數(shù)肌肉逐漸無(wú)法動(dòng)彈，但他的大腦仍沒(méi)停止過(guò)思考。

I think that once he was hit with this earth-shattering diagnosis,he actually sought a refuge in doing physics and if anything had helped him become one of the world's great scientists.

我想他備受這一診斷的打擊，于是在物理研究中尋求庇護(hù)，還有其他成就促使他成為世界上最偉大的科學(xué)家之一。

Although his diagnosis only gave him two and a half years to live,Hawking married in 1965 and stunned the science world in 1974 with his PhD on black holes.

盡管醫(yī)生認(rèn)為他最多只能再活兩年半，但霍金在1965年結(jié)婚，并在1974年憑借關(guān)于黑洞的博士論文震驚科學(xué)界。

Stephen taught us how to define a black hole.

史蒂芬告訴了我們?nèi)绾谓o黑洞定義。

He then made a brilliant discovery that black holes can radiate"Hawking radiation"that then showed the whole world the connection between black hole physics and thermodynamics and that connection has been a central theme in theoretical physics ever since.

之后他做出黑洞會(huì)放出輻射的驚人發(fā)現(xiàn)，即“霍金輻射”，在當(dāng)時(shí)向全世界展示了河?xùn)|物理學(xué)和熱力學(xué)之間的聯(lián)系。從那以后，這種聯(lián)系成為理論物理學(xué)的核心主題。

He became the Sherman Fairchild distinguished scholar at Caltech in1974.

1974年，他成為了加州理工學(xué)院謝爾曼仙童基金會(huì)的杰出學(xué)者。

And five years later,Hawking was named Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of mathematics,an honor bestowed on only fourteen people since 1663.

五年后，霍金被賦予了牛津大學(xué)盧卡斯數(shù)學(xué)教授席位。自1663年以來(lái)，只有14人獲得此項(xiàng)殊榮。

Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist of a very specific kind.

史蒂芬·霍金是位特別的理論物理學(xué)家。

He studies cosmology,particle physics,gravity...

他研究了宇宙學(xué)、粒子物理學(xué)、引力等等...

That's trying to understand the very basic laws of physics as well as where the universe itself came from.

他是在嘗試去了解物理的基本法則，還有宇宙本身的起源。

Hawking sees things that other people didn't see.

霍金能了解常人看不到的事物。

He just thinks more deeply than most of the rest of us and those insights have had big consequences.

他只是比我們大多數(shù)人思考的程度更深，他的觀察產(chǎn)生了不小的反響。

Even though Hawking deteriorated to the point that he needed a computerized speech synthesizer to speak,he wrote A Brief History of Time in 1988,selling more than 10 million copies.

即便霍金的病情惡化到需要通過(guò)電腦語(yǔ)音合成器來(lái)講話，他還是在1988年著成了《時(shí)間簡(jiǎn)史》一書(shū)，銷量超過(guò)一千萬(wàn)本。

Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time which was a best-seller for weeks and weeks was about some of the most profound questions that face humanity.

史蒂芬·霍金撰寫的《時(shí)間簡(jiǎn)史》，連續(xù)數(shù)周暢銷不斷，闡述了面對(duì)人性提出的一些極為深刻的問(wèn)題。

It's really about where we come from and where we're headed.from a physicist's point of view.

他確實(shí)從一位物理學(xué)家的角度，來(lái)探索人類的起源和未來(lái)。

After expending upon his work with several more books,Hawking increased his popularity by guest starring in TV shows like The Simpsons,Star Trek:The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory.

霍金還寫了其他幾本書(shū)籍，又因?yàn)榭痛嗽S多電視劇而名氣大漲，像是《辛普森一家》《星際迷航：下一代》還有《生活大爆炸》。

I think Hawking is absolutely the most popular physicist probably since Einstein.

我想霍金或許是繼愛(ài)因斯坦之后最受歡迎的物理學(xué)家。

There are plenty of other physicists who are working very deeply at nature's secrets,but Hawking has celebrity status that very few scientists reach.

有許多其他的科學(xué)家非常致力于研究自然的秘密，但沒(méi)有幾個(gè)能夠擁有霍金那樣大的名氣。

Hawking received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009,although he retired from teaching that same year.

2009年，霍金獲得總統(tǒng)自由勛章，但也在同一年辭去教職。

Stephen Hawking continues to be hailed as one of the greatest scientific minds of all time.

史蒂芬·霍金一直以來(lái)被稱作最偉大的科學(xué)頭腦之一。

Stephen Hawking is a scientist(who)has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the universe and the laws of nature.

史蒂芬·霍金作為一名科學(xué)家，對(duì)我們了解宇宙和自然法則產(chǎn)生了巨大的影響。

The same time,as a human being,he has been an inspiration to the world,to his colleagues and to people with disabilities everywhere.

與此同時(shí)，他作為人類，激勵(lì)著全世界的人，包括他的同事和所有的殘障人士。