1 Scientist and thinker 1
2 Early years 3
3 Marriage 8
4 Theories and ideas 12
5 A great cosmologist 20
6 A new voice 25
7 A big name 30
8 Family life 36
9 Last years 41
GLOSSARY 46
The life of Stephen Hawking 49
Lucasian Professors of Mathematics 50
Three important sciences 51
A brief history of the universe 52
ACTIVITIES: Think ahead 54
ACTIVITIES: Chapter check 55
ACTIVITIES: Focus on vocabulary 59
ACTIVITIES: Focus on language 60
ACTIVITIES: Discussion 61
PROJECT 62
TRANSLATION 参考译文 64
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Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of our time, and was famous around the world because he wrote and talked about cosmology the science of the universe in a way that people can understand.
He had a terrible disease called ALS, and for more than thirty years, he could only move and speak with the help of machines. But this did not stop him working to try and understand our world better. Will people travel in time one day? Where did the universe come from? Most of us cannot even begin to think about questions like these but Stephen Hawking was always looking for the answers.
斯蒂芬霍金是我们这个时代最伟大的科学家和思想家之一,他用人们能够理解的方式进行关于宇宙学话题的创作和讲话,因而闻名于世。
他患有一种叫肌萎缩侧索硬化症(ALS)的可怕疾病,有30多年行动和讲话都要依靠机器的帮助。但这些并没有阻止他努力去更好地理解我们的世界。将来人们能实现时间旅行吗?宇宙从何而来?对于这样的问题,我们中的大多数人甚至不知道该从何处开始思考 但斯蒂芬霍金一直在努力追寻着这些问题的答案。