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Germany's rediscovery of Einstein began in 2003 when he was picked by millions of television viewers in a survey as one of the "best Germans" of all time.
德國對愛因斯坦的“重新發現”始于2003年。在當時的一次調查中，他被數百萬電視觀眾推選為德國歷史上“最偉大的人物”之一。
Born in the Bavarian city of Ulm in 1879, Einstein moved to Switzerland at 17 to evade military service. After graduating from the Polytechnic School in Zurich he wrote scientific papers in his spare time while working as a Swiss patent officer.
1879年，愛因斯坦出生于德國烏爾姆的巴伐利亞市，17歲時，為逃避服兵役，他移居瑞士。從蘇黎世聯邦工業大學畢業后，他供職于瑞士聯邦專利局，并在業余時間撰寫科學論文。
In 1908, Einstein's "miracle year", he formulated his theory of relativity, an explanation of the relationship between time and space that challenged a view of the universe that had stood since the days of Sir Isaac Newton 200 years before.
1908年是愛因斯坦的“奇跡年”，他創立了闡釋時空關系的相對論，挑戰了物理學巨人艾薩克·牛頓始創的宇宙觀，那些理論200年來一直固若磐石。
Einstein's fame soared in 1919 after his theory was proven. He won a Nobel Prize in 1921, after which Germany and Switzerland both claimed him as theirs.
1919年，愛因斯坦的理論為科學家們所證實，一時他聲名鵲起。1921年，他獲得了諾貝爾物理學獎，隨后德國和瑞士都爭著說愛因斯坦是屬于自己國家的。
But Einstein didn't stop. His special theory also provided the basis for his most famous discovery, E=mc2, an equation that opened the door to the atomic age. The formula is known around the world even if few understand it.
但是愛因斯坦沒有停滯不前。他的獨特理論也給他最為著名的發現奠定了基礎，那個發現就是E=mc2——一個打開原子時代大門的方程式。全世界都知道這個公式，雖然沒多少人能真正理解它。
Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 and lived in Berlin for 19 years before fleeing Hitler's Nazis in 1933. He took a post at Princeton University, and spent the rest of his life there.
1914年，愛因斯坦回到德國，隨后在柏林居住了19年，直到1933年為躲避希特勒的納粹軍團的迫害而逃亡國外。他曾在美國普林斯頓大學執教，并在那里度過了晚年。
His house in Berlin was ransacked by the Nazis. Einstein gave up his German citizenship in 1932 and became a naturalised American citizen in 1940.
他在柏林的住宅曾遭納粹黨人洗劫。1932年，愛因斯坦放棄了德國國籍，并于1940年加入美國國籍，成為一名美國公民。
