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亞歷山大曾經(jīng)說過，一個人雖有卓越的才能，而無堅持不懈的勤勉，百折不撓的忍耐，亦不能立于世間，23歲的帕斯特斯基就是一個很好的例子。她從小勤奮好學(xué)，并因其非凡的成就被人們比作史蒂芬·霍金及阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦這樣的天才！那么她有哪些杰出的成就呢？

Being compared to talents like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein is not something that happens to the common person.So when we tell you that Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is far from our common human,it is true.

At the age of just 23,Pasterski has already achieved more than most of us ever will in our lifetime.When she was only 14 years old,the Chicago native,constructed her own single engine airplane by herself.If that wasn’t outstanding enough，she then flew it across Lake Michigan,becoming the youngest person to ever fly her own plane.It took her two years to complete the whole adventure,and she wrote down the whole experience on YouTube.

After graduating from a high school,she went to the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010.After just three years at MIT,she has already achieved the highest grade point which was 5.0 in average.She is now working towards her PhD （博士學(xué)位）at the world-famous Harvard University,with full academic freedom.

What’s even more amazing is that she is no longer interested in building planes but has turned her attention to physics,for example,black holes and how gravity influences space and time,so we compare her to the Einstein and Hawking.

During an interview earlier this year,she said:Be optimistic about what you believe you can do.When you’re little,you say a lot of things about what you’ll do or be when you grow up—I think it’s important not to forget those dreams.

◆詞語積淀

achieve/??t?i?v/v.完成；達(dá)到；實現(xiàn)

construct/k?n?str?kt/v.建造；構(gòu)筑

adventure/?d?v?nt??/n.冒險，經(jīng)歷

academic/??k??demIk/adj.學(xué)術(shù)的

no longer不再

gravity/?gr?v?ti/n.重力；地心引力

compare...to...把……比作……

optimistic/?pti?mIstIk/adj.樂觀的；積極的

◆典句賞析

1.It took her two years to complete the whole adventure,and she wrote down the whole experience on YouTube.整場冒險活動用了兩年才完成，而且她還記錄下了自己所有的經(jīng)歷，并上傳到了YouTube上。

句型“It takes/took sb.+時間+to do sth.”的意思是“某人花費多長時間做某事”，it是形式主語，真正的主語是動詞不定式短語“to complete the whole adventure”,該句型相當(dāng)于“sb.spends(spent)+一段時間+（in）doing sth.”。

【即時嘗試】布萊恩用了三年時間才完成這本小說。

2.What’s even more amazing is that she is no longer interested in building planes but has turned her attention to physics...更令人感到驚訝的是，如今她不再對造飛機感興趣了，而是把注意力放在了物理學(xué)上……

句子“she is no longer interested in building planes”是由that引導(dǎo)的表語從句；“What’ even more amazing”是由what引導(dǎo)的主語從句，句子作主語時，謂語動詞需要用單數(shù)形式。be interested in是固定詞組搭配，意為“對……感興趣”，介詞in后接名詞、代詞或動名詞。

【即時嘗試】他所感興趣的就是他可以收集來自世界各地的各種郵票。

3.I think it’s important not to forget those dreams.我認(rèn)為不要忘記曾經(jīng)的夢想很重要。

這是一個主從復(fù)合句?！癷t’s important not to forget those dreams”是省略了連詞that的賓語從句；在從句中，it為形式主語，代替動詞不定式的否定形式“not to forget those dreams”。

【即時嘗試】你真會拖延（dilatory），都沒回我的信。

譯文助讀

被比作史蒂芬·霍金以及阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦這樣的天才這種事不會發(fā)生在一個普通人身上。所以當(dāng)我們告訴你薩布麗娜·岡薩雷斯·帕斯特斯基遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過了我們普通人的水準(zhǔn)時，我們是認(rèn)真的。

年僅23歲的帕斯特斯基所取得的成就已經(jīng)超過了我們大多數(shù)人一生才能獲得的成績。在她只有14歲的時候，這位芝加哥女孩就獨自建造了自己的單引擎飛機。如果這還不夠杰出，之后她又駕駛著飛機飛越了密歇根湖，成為有史以來最年輕的駕駛自己的飛機飛行的人。整場冒險活動用了兩年才完成，而且她還記錄下了自己所有的經(jīng)歷，并上傳到了YouTube上。

在2010年高中畢業(yè)之后，她進(jìn)入了著名的麻省理工學(xué)院。她在麻省理工學(xué)院只用了三年時間就取得了最高的平均績點5.0。如今她在舉世聞名的哈佛大學(xué)攻讀博士學(xué)位，擁有完全的學(xué)術(shù)自由。

更令人感到驚訝的是，如今她不再對造飛機感興趣了，而是把注意力放在了物理學(xué)上，例如黑洞理論以及重力是如何影響空間和時間的。因此，我們把她比作了愛因斯坦和霍金。

在今年早些時候的一次采訪中，她說：你要對相信自己能做到的事持樂觀態(tài)度。在你小的時候，你講了許多關(guān)于自己將來要做什么事或是長大后要成為什么樣的人，我認(rèn)為不要忘記曾經(jīng)的夢想很重要。