走进耶鲁大学 第16期:小金曼·布鲁斯特(1)

 Kingman Brewster Jr.

小金曼·布鲁斯特

In the history of Yale University, one figure should never be ignored. It is Kingman Brewster, Jr. (June 17，1919-November 8，1988)，an educator, 17th president of Yale University. He is the only college president to appear on the covers of two authoritative¹ magazines Time Magazine and Business Week. With his superb wisdom and courage, Kingman Brewster earned respect from both Yalies and non-Yalies.

在耶鲁的历史上，有一个不可忽视的人物，他就是小金曼·布鲁斯特（1919.6.17-1988.11.8 )。他是一位教育家，是耶鲁大学第17任校长，也是唯一一位曾被《时代周刊》 和 《商业周刊》两大权威周刊作为封面人物的大学校长。凭借超人的智慧和过人的勇气， 他不仅贏得了耶鲁人的爱戴，也贏得了非耶鲁人士的尊敬。

Kingman Brewster Jr. was born to a rich family background in Longmeadow, a town in southern Massachusetts. He was descended² from Elder William Kingman Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist³ leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower. While Kingman Brewster was a little boy, his parents separated and later divorced. He and his sister were raised by their mother, who later remarried to a music professor at Harvard University. The professor was by all accounts a good stepfather.

小金曼·布鲁斯特出生于马萨诸塞州南部小镇隆美多的一个富裕家庭。他是威廉·布鲁斯特的后人。威廉·布鲁斯特是普利茅斯殖民地的早期殖民领袖兼精神领袖， 也是"五月花"号的乘客之一。当他小的时候，父母就分居继而离异，小金曼·布鲁斯特与姐姐由母亲抚养。后来，母亲再婚，嫁给哈佛大学的一位音乐教授。据说，这位教授是一位称职的继父。

Kingman Brewster Jr. entered Yale University and graduated cum laude in 1941 from there. After graduation, he served briefly⁴ in Washington as special assistant coordinator⁵ for economics in the Office of Inter-American Affairs, directed by Nelson A. Rockefeller. On December 7，1941，with the attack on Pearl Harbor, he immediately volunteered for service in the U.S. Navy. During this period, he married Mary Louise Phillips.

小金曼·布鲁斯特就读于耶鲁大学并于1941年以优异成绩毕业。毕业之后，他曾在华盛顿的美洲事务办公室短时间供职经济状况协调员的特殊助理，由尼尔森A洛克菲勒领导。1941年12月7日，珍珠港事件爆发，他立即报名去美国海军做志愿者。 正是在这期间，他与玛丽·路易丝·菲利普斯喜结连理。

After the war, he entered Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 1948. Then he went to Paris as assistant general counsel to Milton Katz, the United States Special Representative in Europe for the Economic Cooperation Administration. In 1949 and 1950, he was a research associate in the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

二战后,小金曼·布鲁斯特进人哈佛大学法学院读书,并于1948年以优异成绩毕业。之后，他前往巴黎，成为美国驻欧洲经济合作署特别代表弥尔顿·凯茨的助理法律顾问。 1949至1950年，他在麻省理工学院经济学系做助理研究员。

1 authoritative   

adj.有权威的，可相信的；命令式的；官方的

参考例句：

• David speaks in an authoritative tone.大卫以命令的口吻说话。
• Her smile was warm but authoritative.她的笑容很和蔼，同时又透着威严。

2 descended   

a.为...后裔的，出身于...的

参考例句：

• A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
• The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。

3 colonist   

n.殖民者，移民

参考例句：

• The indians often attacked the settlements of the colonist.印地安人经常袭击殖民者的定居点。
• In the seventeenth century, the colonist here thatched their roofs with reeds and straw,just as they did in england.在17世纪，殖民者在这里用茅草盖屋，就像他们在英国做的一样。

4 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

5 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？