The first year he was at St. Albans School.he came, I think, third from the bottom.
他第一年在圣阿爾本茲學校的時候 成績倒數第三名
I said, "Well, Stephen.do you really have to be as far down as that?"
我對他說 "好吧 史蒂芬" "你真的想變得那么差嗎"
And he said, "Well a lot of other people didn't do much better."
他說道 "很多人都沒有做得更好"
He was quite unconcerned.Somehow he was always recognized as being very bright.
他一點也不在意 不知為何 他總是被認為 很聰明
And in fact they gave him the Divinity Prize one year.
事實上他有一年獲得過神學獎
That was not surprising because his father used to read him.
這沒有什么奇怪的 因為他爸爸在他很小的時候就常常給他
Bible stories from a very early age.and he knew them all very well.
朗讀一些圣經的故事 他對那些故事很熟悉
and he was quite well-versed in religious things.
他對宗教的一些事非常精通
although I don't think he makes a great deal of practice of it now.
然而我不認為他是通過大量的練習才熟悉的
Everybody used to argue theology.That's a good, safe subject.
每個人都會談論神學 那是一個好的安全的話題
You don't need any facts or distracting things like that.
你不需要事實或者 分散注意力
If you go in for arguing you know, debating you can quite happily debate about anything including theology.
如果你參與討論 你可以愉快地辯論任何事 包括神學
and the existence or otherwise of God.And then someone gets bored
上帝存在及其形式 一些人會厭倦了
or Journey Into Space comes on, or something like that and the argument breaks up
就會談論星際旅行 或者類似這些的 然后討論到此結束
In an unchanging universe one can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past.
在亙古不變的宇宙中 我們可以想象是上帝于過去的某個時間 創造了宇宙
On the other hand if the universe is expanding there may be physical reasons.why there had to be a beginning.
另一方面 如果宇宙在膨脹 那可能有物理原因 為什么一定要有起源呢
An expanding universe does not preclude a creator but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job.
宇宙的膨脹并不排除創造者 但是它在上帝是何時創世這方面 有局限性