beef什么意思研究生英语精读教程课文原文+翻译+短文unit4

2021年1月26日发(作者：weaker)
Einstein's Painful Romance
Walter Sullivan

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.
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。

Many
of
the
letters
describe
the
love
between
the
young
scientist and his future 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.
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。

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.
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。

Intertwined with the disclosures of a difficult romance are

fragments
of
Einstein's
thought
as
he
struggled
toward
confidence in his concept of relativity.
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。

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.
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。

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.
爱因斯坦在信中向玛丽克吐露，自己在投身于许多物理
学领域

(
其中包括光的特性、相对运动和分子现象

)
内发生
的革命。

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

sounding
board
than
a
contributor to Einstein's ideas.
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

”
。

In
a
letter
to
Maric
in
1899,
when
he
was
20
years
old,
Einstein
anticipated
his
first
theory
of
relativity,
published
six
years

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
”
.
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 后发表的早期相对论思想。
当时许多物理
学家仍然认为空间充满着一种能使光波传播的不可见的 介
质。他们将这种介质称之为“传光的以太”
。

Einstein's letters also reveal his family's disdain for Maric.
In July 1900 he had been
warned by his
sister that his
parents
were bitterly opposed to him marrying Maric. When he told his
mother of his intention,
her
head
in
the
pillows,
and
cried
like
a
child,
he
wrote
to
Maric.
爱因斯坦的信还透露了他家里的人对玛丽克的鄙视态
度。

1900
年

7
月，他事先得到姐姐的警告说，父母竭力反
对他与玛丽克结婚。当他把自己的打算告诉母亲后，
“妈妈
一下子扑倒在床上，把头埋在枕头下 ，哭得像孩子似的”
，
他在给玛丽克的信中写道。


she
had
recovered
from
the
initial
shock,
she
immediately
switched
to
a
desperate
offensive,
Einstein
continued.
He
quoted
his
mother
as
saying,

are
ruining
your future and blocking your path through life.
爱因斯坦继续写道，
“ 当她从开头的打击中恢复过来后，
便立即转换方式，
发起猛烈攻势。
”
他还援 引母亲的话说，
“你
是在毁掉自己的前途，你是在阻塞自己的人生道路。
”

Although
Einstein's
family
looked
down
on
Maric's
background, another problem was the couple's
meager income.
As
Einstein
wrote
to
a
friend,

of
us
two
has
gotten
a
job and we support ourselves by private lessons - when we can
pick up some, which is still very questionable.
虽然爱因斯坦的家人瞧不起玛 丽克的出身，另外一个原
因也是因为这对未婚夫妇的微薄收入。就像爱因斯坦在给一
个朋友的信 中所写的那样，
“我们俩都还未找到工作。我们
只靠给私人上课为生

(
如果我们能找到一些这样机会的
话

)
，但这还是很成问题的。
”

Interspersed among Einstein's repeated expressions of love

were
discussions
of
scientific
questions
with
which
both
were
concerned.
在爱因斯坦的那些情意缱绻的信中也掺带着对他们双
方都关心的科学问题的讨论。

While
visiting
the
Swiss
town
of
Aarau

good
idea
occurred to me,
body's
relative
motion
with
respect
to
the
luminiferous
ether
affects the velocity of propagation of light in transparent bodies.
Also a theory on this matter occurred to me, which seems to be
highly probable.
在 游览瑞士的阿劳城时，
“我心中产生了一个好主意，
”
他写道，
“即关于研究 一个物体与传光以太的相对运动如何
影响光在透明物体中的传播速度的方法。在这个问题上我头
脑里还产生了一种似乎十分有可能成立的理论。
”

He also
was pondering

paradox
that
led
him
to
his
initial
theory
on
relativity.
The
theory ruled out the possibility of absolute rest, since all objects
are considered to be in motion relative to other objects. He also
was contemplating the electrodynamics of moving bodies which,
he said,
他还在思考着“绝对静止的定义”
，一种导致他产 生最
初相对论的悖论。这种理论排除了绝对静止的可能性。因为
一切物体对于其他有关物体来说 都被看作是处在运动之中
的。他还对移动物体的电动力学冥思苦想，他说，
“这有希
望 成为一篇优秀论文。
”


about
relative
motion,
he
wrote.

my
doubts
were
based
solely on a simple mathematical I believe in it more
than ever.

“我曾写信给你，谈到过我对相对运动想法的正确性有
怀疑，
”
他写道。
“但我的怀疑只是基于简单的数学上的错误。
现在我比以前更深信无疑了。< br>”

Mr.
Stachel,
writing
in
the
May
issue
of
Physics
Today,
says
this
passage

that
Einstein
had
already
adopted
some version of the relativity principle
form.
斯塔赫尔先生在

5
月号的《今日物理》上撰文说，这篇
文章

“意味着爱因斯坦已经采用了某种形式的相对论原
理

”
，尽管还不是最终形式。

Although
Maric
has
been
depicted
by
historians
as
a
dull
woman, the letters show her interest in the nature of infinity.