Lu Xun (pseud. of Zhou Shuren, 1881-1936) was born on September 25, 1881 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He was taught Chinese classics by a private tutor. In 1898 he entered South China Naval Academy in Nanjing but was soon transfered to the School of Mining and Civil Engineering affiliated with South China Military Academy. In 1902 he went to Japan to study medicine at Sendai Medical College. He broke off his medical studies and tured to writing literature in 1906. He translated various Russian literary works into Chinese and was enthusiastic about Darwinism and other Western social discourses. In 1909 he returned to China and was appointed headmaster of a normal school in Shaoxing after the 1911 Revolution. In 1920 he began teaching at both Beijing University and Beijing Normal University. In 1927 he became a professor at Xiamen University and then Zhongshan University; but he quickly resigned from his posts and settled in Shanghai to live by his pen. He died of tuberculosis in Shanghai on October 19,1936. He was accorded the honor of "the national soul" at his funeral. His major works include "The Power of Mara Poetry," "A Madman;s Diary," My Views on Chastity," "The True Story of Ah Q," "Kong Yiji," "My Old Home," "A Brief History of Chinese Fiction," "New Year's Sacrifice," "Regret for the Past," "Russian Fairy Tales," "Gogal's Dead Souls," etc. The Century’s Greatest MindsAlbert Einstein 本世紀最偉大的智者阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦 The scientific touchstones of the modern age——the Bomb, space travel, electronics, Quantum physics——all bear his imprint. 原子彈、太空旅行、電子學(xué)、量子物理這些現(xiàn)代科學(xué)的代表都有賴于他的影響。 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. 愛因斯坦好象改變了所有的事情。他沒發(fā)明什么“思維的實驗”，但他將其提升到新高度：試想一對雙胞胎，帶著相同的手表；一個呆在家里，同時另一個在飛船中以近光速運動… …毫無疑問，自從1919年至今，愛因斯坦一直是世界最知名的科學(xué)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 , especially after he moved to the U.S. He used it to promote zionism, pacifism, in his secret 1939 letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the construction of a uranium bomb. 在他出生的德國，他成為了仇恨的對象。作為一個猶太人，一個自由主義者，一個人道主義者，一個國際主義者，他招致了民族主義者和反猶太者的敵意。他的聲音當(dāng)時是有影響力的，廣泛傳播且被重視的，尤其在他到了美國之后。他用它去提倡以色列的猶太人復(fù)國主義，和平主義和建造原子彈（在他39年給羅斯福的密信中）。 Meanwhile, like any demigod, he made bits of legend: that he failed math in school (not true). That he opened a book and found an uncashed $1,500 check he had left as a bookmark (maybe---he was absentminded about everyday affairs).That he was careless about socks, collars, slippers … that he couldn’t even remember his address: 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, where he finally settled. 同時，像每個名人一樣，他制造了一些傳聞；在學(xué)校中數(shù)學(xué)不及格（八成不是真的）。他翻開書卻發(fā)現(xiàn)一張沒兌現(xiàn)的$1500的支票被當(dāng)成書簽扔在里面（或許他對日常的事務(wù)心不在焉）。他不在意自己的襪子，領(lǐng)口和拖鞋… …甚至他想不起自己最后定居的住址：普林斯頓莫色爾大街112號。 He died there in 1955 And after the rest of Einstein had been cremated, his brain remained, soaking for decades in a jar of formaldehyde belonging to Dr. Thomas Harvey. No one had bothered to dissect the brain of Freud, Stravinsky or Joyce, but in the 1980s, bits of Einsteinian gray matter were making the rounds of certain neurobiologists, who thus learned … absolutely nothing. It was just a brain——the brain that dreamed a plastic fourth dimension, that banished the ether, that released the pins binding us to absolute space and time, that refused to believe God played dice. 1955年他死在那里。當(dāng)他身體其余部分被火化后，他的大腦被保存起來，在一瓶甲醛中侵了幾十年，現(xiàn)屬于托馬斯博士。沒人費心去解剖弗洛伊德、斯特拉文斯基或喬伊斯的大腦，但在80年代，一些神經(jīng)生物學(xué)家為搞清愛因斯坦的一些灰質(zhì)大費周折，但最后一無所獲。那只不過是一個大腦，它想象了一個可伸縮的第四維度，它推翻了以太學(xué)說，它使我們從絕對時空的束縛中解脫出來，它拒絕相信上帝在拋骰子。In embracing Einstein, our century took leave of a prior universe and an erstwhile God. The new versions were not so rigid and deterministic as the Newtonian world. Einstein’s. God was no clockmaker, but the embodiment of reason in nature. This God did not control our actions or even sit in judgment on them. (“Einstein, stop telling God what to do,” Niels Bohr Finally retorted.) This God seemed rather kindly and absentminded, as a matter of fact . Physics was free, and we too are free, in the Einstein universe which is where we live. 因為信奉了愛因斯坦，我們的世紀告別了原有的宇宙和上帝。新的宇宙和上帝不再那么刻板、僵硬，象牛頓的世界那樣。愛因斯坦的上帝不是鐘表匠而是自然定律的化身。這個上帝不控制我們的行動，更不對其加以判決。（“愛因斯坦，別再管上帝該干什么。”玻爾最終反駁道）這個上帝實際上似乎有些和善，心不在焉。在這個愛因斯坦的宇宙中，在這個我們生息繁衍的宇宙中，物理學(xué)沒有了束縛，我們也沒有了束縛。