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gene-glimmer A giant of a man
巨人
"If my friends from the ghetto could only see me now!" Said Tom to his partner
"要是我貧民區(qū)的朋友 們現在能看到我就好 了!" 湯姆對他的伙伴說。
as he put his hand up to block the glimmer from the gigantic glacier he was surveying. He was on a survey of unique geological glacial features in Antarctica
他舉起手擋住他正在考 察的巨大冰川發(fā)出的微 光 他正在考察南極獨一無 二的地質冰川特點
using the newest geometric equipment. It was a place that he had never thought he would visit when he was a child.
用最新的幾何設備. 這是個他小時候從未想 過會去的地方。
But then his teachers had discovered he was a genius when he was a teenager and placed him in a school for gifted students.
但青少年時代他就被 老師們發(fā)現是個天才, 因此他就上了天才學生 上的學校。
He flourished under their care. They even took samples of his genes
他在他們的照料下茁壯 成長。 他們甚至取了他的基因 樣品,
so that they would be able to decipher his genome to better understand how he had such a gift.
以便能夠破譯他的基因 組, 更好地理解他為什么會 有這么高的天賦。
It was a glamorous life, playing with the newest gizmos, receiving generous funding for research and the like.
他的生活很令人向往： 玩最新的小發(fā)明, 得到慷慨的研究資 助等等。
And Tom had even escaped the curse of geniuses; he had remained genuine and even gentle. Everyone liked him.
湯姆甚至沒有遇到天才 們常有的煩惱： 他一直待人真誠, 甚至 性格也很溫和, 人人都 喜歡他。
Tom repaid their support by making numerous discoveries that generated even more patents.
湯姆回報了他們的支持 因為他有許多新發(fā)現, 這些發(fā)現獲得了更多 的專利。
He made a robot to attack germs, he programmed a camera to understand hand gestures,
他研制出了一種能消滅 細菌的機器人, 給攝影機裝上了理解各 種手勢的程序,
and now he was mapping the planet. Previous maps generalized to the nearest 10 meters.
現在他正在給地球繪制 地圖。 以前的地圖畫得比較籠 統(tǒng), 最精確只能到10米
His map would go to one tenth of a meter. It would have a tremendous impact.
而他繪制的地圖將精確 到十分之一米。 他的地圖將產生巨 大的影響。
He was a giant in his field and quite famous. But he still remembered his childhood in the poor regions of New York.
他是行業(yè)內的巨人, 而且相當出名。 但他還記得在紐約貧民 區(qū)度過的童年。
And that was where the bulk of his income went; back to improving the lives of other children.
他把大部分收入都捐給 了那里, 用于改善其他孩子的 生活。
Tom wanted to give others the same chance that he had been given. That was the gist of his nature,
湯姆想給別人提供他曾 經得到過的機會, 這是他天性中的本質,
and that was the good that came from the generosity of others.
也是別人的善舉結出 的碩果。
