【正文】 外做音頻制作和環(huán)境方面的工作——作為干這一行的工具，我還裝備了一間帶電腦的工作室。可他又跑回來(lái)待在原地。當(dāng)樹(shù)蛙從我面前爬過(guò)時(shí)，我不得不停止工作。我突然有一股強(qiáng)烈的欲望想了解他：為什么他要待在這兒而不樂(lè)意待在花房里？我認(rèn)為對(duì)樹(shù)蛙來(lái)說(shuō)，花房顯然要舒適得多。這種聲音似乎一下子就進(jìn)入了我的大腦中樞，因?yàn)樗碗娔X里發(fā)出來(lái)的聲音十分接近。然后經(jīng)過(guò)短暫的體驗(yàn)這種交流之后，我覺(jué)得我已經(jīng)理解了樹(shù)蛙待在這兒的原因?！　 kept working. I was working on a story about global climate change and had just received a fax from a friend. The fax said that the earth is warming at degrees each decade. At that rate I knew that the maple trees that I love to tap each spring for syrup would not survive for my children. My beautiful Wisconsin would bee a prairie by the next generation.　　我繼續(xù)工作。我的故鄉(xiāng)美麗的威斯康星州也會(huì)在下一代變成一片草原。他的皮膚起了微妙的變化，呈現(xiàn)出一種亮麗的綠色，然后他就用盡全力跳到電腦上。還說(shuō)青蛙是一個(gè)“物種指示器”，由于對(duì)環(huán)境敏感，這個(gè)物種會(huì)先遭滅頂之災(zāi)?！蔽覀円呀?jīng)進(jìn)入了關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻，為了人類的子孫后代，也為青蛙，我們必須對(duì)這個(gè)星球負(fù)起主人的責(zé)任。　　And then I understood, not only why the frog was there, but, also why I am here.　　于是我明白了這只青蛙此行的目的，也知道自己在這兒該做些什么。他說(shuō)的正是我的公司。英特飛于1994年開(kāi)始完成一項(xiàng)使命，力爭(zhēng)“成為首家生態(tài)實(shí)業(yè)公司，通過(guò)自己的所作所為向整個(gè)實(shí)業(yè)界全方位地展現(xiàn)可持續(xù)性發(fā)展的理念：涵蓋人員、生產(chǎn)過(guò)程、產(chǎn)品、利潤(rùn)、地點(diǎn)等各個(gè)方面。這一定義雄心勃勃地轉(zhuǎn)化為行動(dòng)理念：做任何事情都要一開(kāi)始就做對(duì)，而且每次如此。這就說(shuō)明有業(yè)可就，訂單滾滾而來(lái)，產(chǎn)品源源出廠，以及利潤(rùn)存入銀行。 　　Can taking a profitable business apart at the height of its success make business sense? The waste elimination initiative alone —and the avoided costs of $372 million over 13 years — have more than offset all the investments and expenses incurred in pursuit of our goal which we now call “Mission Zero”: zero environmental impacts by the year 2020. This has allowed the business case for sustainability to develop and bee crystal clear. Costs are down, not up — dispelling a myth and exposing the false choice between the environment and the economy. 　　將一個(gè)處于鼎盛時(shí)期的贏利企業(yè)拆卸分解，從商業(yè)的角度看合理嗎？?jī)H消除浪費(fèi)這一項(xiàng)行動(dòng)，以及13年來(lái)因此而節(jié)約下來(lái)的3億7千2百萬(wàn)美元的成本，不僅抵消而且超出了我們?cè)谧非蟪掷m(xù)發(fā)展目標(biāo)方面的投資和花費(fèi)總額?！　mazingly, this initiative has produced a better business model, a better way to bigger and more legitimate profits. It outpetes its petitors in the rough and tumble of the marketplace, but not at the expense of the Earth or future generations. Instead it includes Earth and generations not yet born in winwinwin relationships. As validation of this, the Interface share price has moved from $2 to $20 in four years, as we have dug out of the deepest, longest recession in our industry’s history, a recession we might not have survived without the enormous boost of sustainability. 　　令人驚訝的是，這一創(chuàng)舉產(chǎn)生了一個(gè)更好的商業(yè)模式，找到了一個(gè)可獲取更大利潤(rùn)，并且收入更加合法的更好的途徑。如果沒(méi)有可持續(xù)性發(fā)展的極大推動(dòng)，我們也許無(wú)法在這場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退中存活下來(lái)。 (771 words) Unit 2 Nobel Prize WinnersPassage AEinstein’s Compass愛(ài)因斯坦的指南針Young Albert was a quiet boy. “Perhaps too quiet”, thought Hermann and Pauline Einstein. He spoke hardly at all until age 3. They might have thought him slow, but there was something else evident. When he did speak, he’d say the most unusual things. At age 2, Pauline promised him a surprise. Albert was excited, thinking she was bringing him some new fascinating toy. But when his mother presented him with his new baby sister Maja, all Albert could do was stare with questioning eyes. Finally he responded, “where are the wheels?” 　　小愛(ài)因斯坦是個(gè)安靜的孩子。兩歲時(shí)，母親波琳許諾給他一個(gè)驚喜。那是小愛(ài)因斯坦第一次見(jiàn)到指南針。引導(dǎo)指南針的無(wú)形力量使愛(ài)因斯坦認(rèn)識(shí)到，我們?nèi)庋劭吹降闹皇鞘澜绲囊徊糠?，事物背后還有“某種東西，某種深藏著的東西”。他的耐心和毅力使他做起事情來(lái)能比大多數(shù)人都更持久。”　　One advantage Albert Einstein’s developing mind enjoyed was the opportunity to municate with adults in an intellectual way. His uncle, an engineer, would e to the house, and Albert would join in the discussions. His thinking was also stimulated by a medical student who came over once a week for dinner and lively chats. 　　阿爾伯特?愛(ài)因斯坦的思維發(fā)展得益于他有機(jī)會(huì)與成人進(jìn)行智力交流?！　t age 12, Albert Einstein came upon a set of ideas that impressed him as “holy.” It was a little book on Euclidean plane1 geometry. The concept that one could prove theorems of angles and lines that were in no way obvious made an “indescribable impression” on the young student. He adopted mathematics as the tool he would use to pursue his curiosity and prove what he would discover about the behavior of the universe. 　　愛(ài)因斯坦12歲的時(shí)候發(fā)現(xiàn)了一系列他認(rèn)為是“神圣”的觀念。他把數(shù)學(xué)當(dāng)做滿足自己好奇心并用以證明他后來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)宇宙運(yùn)行規(guī)律的手段。愛(ài)因斯坦用數(shù)學(xué)公式表達(dá)的思想也許只有少數(shù)才思敏銳的科學(xué)家才能理解，但他卻能簡(jiǎn)潔地闡明自己思想之精髓，使人人都能夠理解。這就是相對(duì)論。　　What was his ultimate quest?　　他追尋的最終目標(biāo)是什么呢？ 　　“I want to know how God created this world ... I want to know His thoughts。幾天之內(nèi)，2000封電子郵件將蜂擁而至；三部電話都將響個(gè)不停，美國(guó)和埃及的媒體將紛紛打來(lái)電話，急切要求對(duì)他進(jìn)行采訪；朋友和同事也會(huì)不斷打來(lái)恭賀電話。扎威爾說(shuō)，他的兩個(gè)女兒瑪哈和阿曼妮“從電話里一聽(tīng)到這個(gè)消息，就高興得快瘋了。他卻只說(shuō)了一聲‘不錯(cuò)’?！盳ewail had brought the most powerful tools from the field of physics into the chemistry lab to create a revolution, and the field of femtochemistry1 was born. It was “a revolution in chemistry and related sciences,” the Swedes announced, “since this type of investigation allows us to understand and predict important reactions,” to probe nature at