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I've lived the entirety of my life in the in-between,
我一直生活在向交地帶，
in the liminal space between dreams and reality, race and gender, poverty and plenty, science and society.
徜徉于夢(mèng)想和現(xiàn)實(shí)，種族和性別，貧窮與富足，科學(xué)和人文之間。
I am both black and a woman. Like the birth of stars in the heavenlies,
我是黑人，又是女性。就如同星辰的誕生一般，
this robust combination of knowing results in a shining example of the explosive fusion of identities.
（我的身份）是一種宿命的強(qiáng)烈結(jié)合，是多種身份的融合爆發(fā)。
I am also an astrophysicist. I study blazars, supermassive, hyperactive black holes that sit at the centers of massive galaxies
我還是一名天體物理學(xué)家。我研究耀變體，超大質(zhì)量活躍黑洞，它們位于巨大星系的中心，
and shoot out jets nearby those black holes at speeds approaching the speed of light in a process we are still trying to completely understand.
從這些黑洞附近射出噴射流，速度接近光速，我們?nèi)栽谘芯窟@一過(guò)程，尚未完全搞懂。
I have dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist since I was 12 years old.
成為天體物理學(xué)家一直是我的夢(mèng)想，從我12歲那年就開始了。
I had no idea that at that time, according to Dr. Jamie Alexander's archive of African-American women in physics,
當(dāng)年的我，還完全不知道，根據(jù)杰米·亞歷山大博士針對(duì)從事物理工作的非裔美籍女性的研究，
only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline,
在美國(guó)，只有18名黑人女性在物理學(xué)相關(guān)學(xué)科獲得了博士學(xué)位，
and that the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in an astronomy-related field did so just one year before my birth.
而第一位獲得天文學(xué)相關(guān)領(lǐng)域博士學(xué)位的黑人女性，是在我出生前一年才畢業(yè)的。
As I journeyed along my path, I encountered the best and worst of life at an intersection:
在我的人生道路上，我經(jīng)歷了生命的美好與殘酷：
the tremendous opportunity to self-define, the collision of expectation and experience,
既遇到了定義自我的絕好機(jī)會(huì)，也經(jīng)歷了理想和現(xiàn)實(shí)的碰撞，
the exhilaration of victorious breakthroughs and, sometimes, the explosive pain of regeneration.
既體驗(yàn)過(guò)取得成功的喜悅，時(shí)不時(shí)的，還要品嘗重頭再來(lái)的苦果。
