欧美文化博览 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦(24)

He developed a process that could be used in producing an artificial fertilizer with the help of which millions could be fed and he was a hero.

他制订了一个过程,可用于生产人造化肥，喂饱了数百万人，这使他成了一个英雄。

Haber and his family host Einstein’s wife Mileva Maric while she looks for an apartment for herself,

当米列娃·马里奇为自己寻找公寓时,哈勃和他的家庭邀请爱因斯坦的这位妻子。

Albert and their two children,

艾伯特和他们的两个孩子,

Haber observes that resettling in Berlin seems to be unsettling relations between Einstein and his wife.

哈勃注意到定居在柏林似乎令爱因斯坦和他的妻子感到有些不安。

Mileva always was a brooding and somewhat despondent¹ woman.

米列娃是个有点沮丧且沉思的女人。

And in Berlin, it gets much worse.

在柏林,情况变得更加糟糕。

He’s dallying² with his cousin Elsa.

他与他的表妹埃尔莎虚度时光。

Einstein is a very brutally³ honest guy,

爱因斯坦是一个诚实守信的人,

so every now and then he apparently⁴ would tell Mileva about Elsa,

所以他不时地会告诉米列娃关于埃尔莎的事情，

then they start fighting with each other,

然后他们就开始吵架,

not surprisingly the man who approached the universe in a unique way has a rather unconventional approach to married life.

毫不奇怪这个接近宇宙的人正以一种独特的非常规方法对待婚后的生活。

1 despondent   

adj.失望的，沮丧的，泄气的

参考例句：

• He was up for a time and then，without warning,despondent again.他一度兴高采烈，但忽然又情绪低落下来。
• I feel despondent when my work is rejected.作品被拒后我感到很沮丧。

2 dallying   

v.随随便便地对待( dally的现在分词 )；不很认真地考虑；浪费时间；调情

参考例句：

• They've been dallying with the idea for years. 他们多年来一直有这个想法，但从没有认真考虑过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This kind of dallying is, in a sense, optimal. 从某种意义上来说，这种延迟是最理想的。 来自互联网

3 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

4 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。