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Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist, although most people probably know him as the most intelligent person who ever lived. His name has become part of many languages when we want to say someone is a genius, as in the phrase, “She’s a real Einstein”. He must have been pretty brainy to discover the Theory ofRelativity and the equation E=mc2.
阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦是一名德國物理學家，盡管絕大部分人都認為他是世界上最聰明的人。他的名字已經收入到了許多語言當中，當人們想要說某人很聰明時，我們就會說：她真是個活愛因斯坦”。他一定絕頂聰明，否則他不會發現相對論和等式E=mc2。
In 1999, ‘Time’ magazine named Einstein as the Person of the Century. No one could have guessed this would happen when he was at school. He was extremely interested in science but hated the system of learning by heart. He said it destroyed learning and creativity. He had already done many experiments, but failed the entrance exams to a technical college.
1999年，時代周刊把愛因斯坦評為了世紀人物。愛因斯坦上學期間，沒有人會想到他會受此殊榮。他對科學非常感興趣，但是他討厭死記硬背的學習方法。他說這些摧毀了學習和創造力。他進行了許多實驗，但是在一次理工學院的考試中，他沒有通過入學考試。
He didn’t let this setback stop him. When he was 16, he performed his famous experiment of imagining traveling alongside a beam of light. He eventually graduated from university, in 1900, with a degree in physics. Twelve years later he was a university professor and in 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. He went on to publish over 300 scientific papers.
他并沒有回頭喪氣。16歲的他做出了著名的理想假設實驗，即測量光速。1900年，他最終獲得了物理學學士學位。12年之后，他成為了大學教授，1921年，他獲得了諾貝爾物理學獎。他出版了300多篇科學論文。
Einstein is the only scientist to become a cult figure, a household name, and part of everyday culture. Heonce joked that when people stopped him in the street, he always replied: "Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.” Today, he is seen as the typical mad, absent-minded professor, who just happened to change our world.
愛因斯坦成為了唯一一位明星級別的科學家，他的名字家喻戶曉，并成為了文化的一部分。曾經他開玩笑地說當有人在大街上阻攔我時，他總是回答道：“對不起！我總是被誤認為是愛因斯坦教授。”如今，人們把他看成是一個近乎瘋狂、注意力不集中的教授，但卻是一位改變世界的教授。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
