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Thank you. It's really an honor and a privilege to be here spending my last day as a teenager.
謝謝各位！非常榮幸能夠站在這里，與大家分享我19歲的最后一天。
So today I want to talk to you about the future, but first I'm going to tell you a bit about the past.
今天我想跟大家談談未來，但是首先我要用一點時間講講我過去的經歷。
My story starts way before I was born. My grandmother was on a train to Auschwitz, the death camp.
這個故事要從我出生之前講起，我的外祖母曾經在開往死亡集中營奧斯維辛的一輛火車上。
She was going along the tracks, and the tracks split.
火車順著軌道開呀開，開到一個軌道分叉處。
And somehow -- we don't really know exactly the whole story -- but the train took the wrong track and went to a work camp rather than the death camp.
然后不知怎么地——沒人知道倒底怎么回事——總之，火車開上了錯誤的軌道，開到了一處勞動集中營，而不是奧斯維辛。
My grandmother survived and married my grandfather. They were living in Hungary, and my mother was born.
我的外祖母就這樣幸免于難，然后嫁給了我的外祖父，他們住在匈牙利時，生下了我母親。
And when my mother was two years old, the Hungarian revolution was raging, and they decided to escape Hungary.
我母親兩歲的時候，匈牙利革命爆發，于是外祖父母決定離開匈牙利。
And they got on a boat, and yet another divergence -- the boat was either going to Canada or to Australia.
他們上了一條船，又一次的陰差陽錯，這條船可能開往加拿大或者是澳大利亞。
They got on and didn't know where they were going, and ended up in Canada. So, to make a long story short, they came to Canada.
他們上船的時候并不知道會到哪里，最后船把他們送去了加拿大。嗯，長話短說，他們到了加拿大。
My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer.
我的外祖母是一名化學家，她在多倫多的班廷研究所工作，44歲時死于胃癌。
I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name -- her exact name, Eva Vertes -- and I like to think I carry on her scientific passion, too.
所以我并沒有機會親眼見到她，但是我繼承了她的名字——伊娃·韋爾泰什，我想我也繼承了她對科學的熱情。
