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The
US$$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeedan
interesting experiment,
美国三百万美元的基础物理学奖的确是一项令人觉得有趣的试
验，
as Alexander Polyakov said when he
accepted thisyear’s award in March.
正如今年三月
Alexander
Polyakov
领取本年度的基础物理学奖所说。
And
it is far from the only one of its type.
而且这种类型的奖项可不止只有基础物理学奖。
As
a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a
stringof lucrative awards for researchers have
joined the Nobel Prizes in recent
years.
正如《自然》杂志的一篇新闻专题文章论述，近年来，一系列给研究者设立的利益丰厚
< br>的奖项能与诺贝尔奖相媲美。
Many,
like
the
Fundamental
Physics
Prize,
are
funded
from
the
telephone-number-sized
bankaccounts of Internet entrepreneurs.
许多奖
项，比如基础物理学奖，其资金来自于互联网企业家们如电话号码长度般的巨额
银行存款
。
These benefactors have succeeded in
their chosen fields, they say,
这些捐助者在他们各自的领域很成功，他们说，
and
they want to use their wealth to draw attention to
those who have succeeded in science.
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而且他们想用他们的财富让人们注意到那些科学领域的有所成
功的人。
What’s not to
like?
这项奖项有什么不让人喜欢的吗
?
Quite a lot, according to a handful of
scientists quoted in the News Feature.
根据新闻专题文章中的几位科学家
的说法，有太多让人不喜欢的地方了。
You
cannot
buy
class,
as
the
old
saying
goes,
and
these
upstart
entrepreneurs
cannot
buy
theirprizes the prestige
of the Nobels.
俗话说：有钱买不到等级。而且这些暴发的企业家们不能买到和诺贝尔奖一样的声望。<
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The new awards are an exercise in self-
promotion for those behind them, say scientists.
科学家说这些新的奖项是它们的幕后人进行自我推销的操练。
They could distort the achievement-
based system of peer-review-led research.
他们可能会扭曲以同行评审为导向的基于学术成就的研究体系。
They could cement the status quo of
peer-reviewed research.
他们可能会使同行评审研究的现状凝固不前。
They do not fund peer-reviewed
research. They perpetuate the myth of the lone
genius.
它们不资助同行评审研究。它们会让寂寞天才的神话不朽。
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The
goals of the prize-givers seem as scattered as the
criticism.
奖项提供者的目标似乎如他们所受的批评一样散乱。
Some want to shock, others to draw
people into science, or to better reward those who
have
madetheir careers in research.
有些人
是想要制造震惊，另一些人想要吸引人们关注科学，或者想更好地奖励那些以科
研为己任
的人。
As
Nature
has
pointed
out
before,
there
are
some
legitimate
concerns
about
how
science
prizes
—
both new
and old
—
are distributed.
正如《
自然》杂志此前指出的，人们关心科学奖项
---
无论新老
---
是怎样分配的，这种担
心是合理的。
The Breakthrough Prize in Life
Sciences, launched this year, takes an
unrepresentative view
ofwhat the life
sciences include.
今年发起的生命科学突破奖，对于生命科学所应包含内容采用
了一个很不具代表性的观
点。
But the Nobel
Foundation’s limit of three recipients per
prize,
但是，现代研究所具有的团队合作性质，
each
of
whom
must
still
be
living,
has
long
been
outgrown
by
the
collaborative
nature
of
modernresearch
早已使得诺贝尔基金对于每个奖项的获奖者不得超过三人，且
每位获奖者必须在世的限
制不再适用
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as
will
be
demonstrated
by
the
inevitable
row
over
who
is
ignored
when
it
comes
toacknowledging the discovery of the
Higgs boson.
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正如在对希格斯玻色子的发现者进行认定时，忽略谁都会不可避免产生争执。
The Nobels were, of course, themselves
set up by a very rich individual who had decided
what
hewanted to do with his own money.
当然，
诺贝尔奖本身就是当时一位有钱人设立的，在设立前他早就决定该如何处置他自
己的钱。
Time, rather than intention, has given
them legitimacy.
时间，而非奖项设立的意图，赋予了诺贝尔奖的合理性。
As
much as some scientists may complain about the new
awards, two things seem clear.
虽然一些科学家可能会对这些新奖
项有所抱怨，但有两件事情似乎要清楚。
First, most
researchers would accept such a prize if they were
offered one.
首先，如果被授予这一奖项，绝大多数研究者都会接受。
Second,
it
is
surely
a
good
thing
that
the
money
and
attention
come
to
science
rather
than
goelsewhere.
第二，
把金钱和注意力倾注到科学而不是其它的地方当然是一件好事。
It
is fair to criticize and question the mechanism
—
that is the culture of
research, after all
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对这一机制批评和质疑都是合理的，毕竟，这就是研究的文化，
but
it is the prize-
givers’ money to do
with as they please.
但这些钱是奖项设立者出的，随他们高兴去花这些钱。
It
is wise to take such gifts with gratitude and
grace.
带着感激和感恩接受这些礼物是明智的。
重点单词
genius[‘d?
i:nj
?
s]n.
天才，天赋
breakthrough[‘breik.θru:]n.
突破
complain[k
?m’plein]vi.
抱怨，悲叹，控诉
prestige[pres’ti:?
]n.
威望，声望
foundation[faun’dei??
n]n.
基础，根据，建立
n.
粉底霜，基
criticize[‘kritisaiz]vt.
批评，吹毛求疵，非难
vi.
批评
gratitude[‘gr?titju:d]n.
感恩之心
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grace[greis]n.
优美，优雅，恩惠
vt.
使荣耀，使优美
distort[dis’t?
:t]vt.
变形，扭曲，歪曲
vi.
歪曲
intention
[in’ten
??
n]n.
意图，意向，目的
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