【正文】 ng to be eliminated. Indeed, while offsets have a critical role to play in helping Interface (and, indeed, all of us) to reach our sustainability goals, we will not achieve them until we begin to redefine fossil fuel energy in this way. Sounds incredible? Remember, “If it exists …”. 　　通過消除浪費(fèi)，我們已經(jīng)累計(jì)降低了3億7千2百萬美元的成本，正在向2020年力爭達(dá)到零浪費(fèi)的完美目標(biāo)邁進(jìn)。對于一個(gè)善待消費(fèi)者的公司而言，這是難以交代的。相反，這種模式將地球和尚未出生的后代納入一種三贏的關(guān)系。愛因斯坦直到三歲時(shí)還很少開口說話。但是無論他怎樣擺弄，指針卻總是會(huì)回到原來指北的位置。而瑪嘉卻驚奇地看著她哥哥阿爾伯特能有條不紊地搭起14層的紙牌高樓。原來人可以證明那些不易明顯看出的角度和線段的定理。但是當(dāng)有人敦促他舉例說明，以便讓大眾能理解相對論時(shí)，他說：“把手放在燙人的爐上時(shí)，一分鐘就像是一個(gè)小時(shí)?！?700 words)Passage BThe Wakeup Call from Stockholm來自斯德哥爾摩的喚醒電話“These are the last 20 minutes of peace in your life,” the Swedish caller told Caltech professor Ahmed Zewail at 5:40 . on October 12. 　　10月12日凌晨5:40，加州理工學(xué)院的阿莫德?扎威爾教授接到了一個(gè)來自瑞典的電話，告訴他“你這輩子只有這20分鐘的清靜時(shí)間了”?！癐 was disappointed in Nabeel’s reaction,” he added. “I told him I had won the prize. He said, ‘Good.’” But when Zewail asked if he’d tell the kids at school, the sixyearold said, “No. These guys will say ‘So what?’” But Nabeel did ask, “Are we going to see the king?” 　　“納比爾的反應(yīng)讓我有些失望，”他補(bǔ)充道?！盳ewail is the 27th Caltech faculty member or alumnus to receive the Nobel Prize, and the third faculty member to be so honored in this decade. 　　扎威爾是加州理工學(xué)院教師及校友中第27位獲得諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)的人，同時(shí)也是最近十年里第三位獲此殊榮的學(xué)院教師。He stayed at Berkeley for postdoctoral work for two reasons: to think more about research rather than about getting a PhD and “the secret reason — I wanted to buy a big American car to take back to Egypt with me.” At Berkeley, he published three papers “immediately” and was advised to apply to the top handful of American universities. 　　扎威爾留在伯克利分校做博士后研究有兩個(gè)原因：一是想搞科研而非僅僅得到博士學(xué)位；另一個(gè)“私下的原因是我想買一輛美國大轎車帶回埃及去”。如今他又將諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)攬入囊中，下一步他該干些什么呢？“首先，我還不會(huì)退休，”扎威爾說。(711 words) 專業(yè)整理分享 。Zewail was off and running, earning tenure in a year and a half, making full professorship by 1982, seated in the Pauling Chair4 by 1990. Now with a Nobel Prize under his belt, what’s next? “First of all, I’m not retiring,” he said. “And I’m not going to Hollywood.” 　　扎威爾的事業(yè)可謂一帆風(fēng)順?！痹栆郧耙苍犝f過加利福尼亞理工學(xué)院，但當(dāng)時(shí)這位年輕的埃及人認(rèn)為，“學(xué)院”的名字聽上去沒有“大學(xué)”響亮?！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 its most fundamental level. 　　扎威爾將物理領(lǐng)域內(nèi)最有威力的儀器引進(jìn)化學(xué)實(shí)驗(yàn)室，從而引發(fā)了一場革命，超微（千萬億分之一）化學(xué)從此誕生。扎威爾說，他的兩個(gè)女兒瑪哈和阿曼妮“從電話里一聽到這個(gè)消息，就高興得快瘋了?！　hat 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。愛因斯坦用數(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，但他卻能簡潔地闡明自己思想之精髓，使人人都能夠理解?！　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。他的耐心和毅力使他做起事情來能比大多數(shù)人都更持久。那是小愛因斯坦第一次見到指南針。 (771 words) Unit 2 Nobel Prize WinnersPassage AEinstein’s Compass愛因斯坦的指南針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?” 　　小愛因斯坦是個(gè)安靜的孩子?！　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