关于名人自强不息，与厄运作斗争的英语文章

The Century’s Greatest Minds

Albert Einstein
本世纪最伟大的智者

阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

The scientific touchstones of the modern age——the Bomb, space travel, electronics, Quantum physics——all bear his imprint.
原子弹、太空旅行、电子学、量子物理这些现代科学的代表都有赖于他的影响。

Einstein had conjured the whole business, it seemed. He did not invent the “thought experiment”, but he raised it to high art. Imagine twins , wearing identical watches; one stays home, while the other rides in a spaceship near the speed of light … little wonder that from 1919, Einstein was——and remains today——the world’s most famous scientist.
爱因斯坦好象改变了所有的事情。他没发明什么“思维的实验”，但他将其提升到新高度：试想一对双胞胎，带着相同的手表；一个呆在家里，同时另一个在飞船中以近光速运动… …毫无疑问，自从1919年至今，爱因斯坦一直是世界最知名的科学家。

In his native Germany he became a target for hatred . As a Jew, a liberal, a humanist, an internationalist, he attracted the enmity of rationalist and anti-semites. His was now a powerful voice, widely heard, always attended to , especial