双语：美国11岁天才大学生解数学题当消遣

2013-08-30 00:00:00来源：沪江英语

　　An 11-year-old child prodigy has started his first semester in college. Accepted when he was only 10, Carson Huey-You is attending Texas Christian University majoring in quantum physics.

　　11岁的天才少年已经开始了他第一学期的大学生活。卡尔森·休伊10岁的时候就被得州基督大学录取，主修量子物理。

　　The youngster was co-valedictorian of his senior class and scored a 1770 on his SAT, speaks Mandarin Chinese and played the piano in the Admissions Center, according to the campus newspaper.

　　据大学校报报道，这个小神童以SAT1770的高分为他的高中生涯画上圆满句号;他还会说中国普通话，在招生中心弹钢琴。

　　Enrolled in four classes, the whiz kid commutes to campus with his mother carrying his books as he shuttles from class to class. ‘It"s not like I'm leaving him here to stay in dorms and join a fraternity,’ mother Claretta Huey-You said.

　　天才少年这学期选了四门课程，每天和妈妈抱着一堆书从家里赶到学校，穿行于不同教室之间。他的妈妈克莱瑞特·休伊说：“我可不准备把他一个人丢在寝室，让他随便加入什么联谊会。”

　　Huey-You is expected to graduate when he’s 16, a full year younger than the previous youngest-ever student at TCU, according to TCU 360. He enrolled in four classes during his first semester at TCU.

　　得州基督大学360报道说，休伊按计划可在16岁时大学毕业，要比目前该大学年纪最小的毕业生还要提前整整一年。小休伊第一学期就选报了四门课。

　　‘‘I’m taking calculus, physics, history and religion. Those are my four classes,’ Huey-You told CBS DFW. The young genius could read by age 1, and was doing pre-algebra by age 5 – he relaxes by doing algebra, according to CBS DFW.

　　休伊告诉达拉斯CBS电视台的记者：“我选了微积分、物理、历史和宗教四门课。”据达拉斯CBS报道，这个天才儿童1岁时就能识字看书，5岁时可以做基础运算，现在还把攻克代数难题当做消遣休闲。

　　Professors are already singing his praises. ‘He’s definitely very talented and also he’s very serious about his work and he really enjoys it. And that’s the best that a professor can hope for his students, right?’ Associate math professor Qao Zhang said to CBS DFW.

　　大学教授们对他的表现赞不绝口。数学系副教授张乔(音译)对达拉斯CBS说：“他的确是个人才，对待学术严肃认真且乐在其中。这不就是老师最希望遇到的学生吗?”

　　Still adjusting to college, Carson Huey-You told TCU 360 that his first week ‘was overwhelming but exciting and fun.’

　　卡尔森·休伊还在适应大学生活的过程中，他对得州基督大学360说，大学第一周“十分忙碌，但同样非常有趣，令人兴奋。”

　　If all goes as planned, Carson Huey-You will have his college degree before he has his driver’s license. Though impressive, he isn't the youngest-ever college student. That distinction belongs to Michael Kearney.

　　如果一切顺利的话，卡尔森能在取得驾照之前就拿到大学学位。虽然他很优秀，但还不是美国历史上年龄最小的大学生。美国历史上年纪最小的大学生名叫迈克尔·卡尼。

　　Kearny graduated San Mateo High School in 1990 when only six-years-old. At age 10 he had earned his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of South Alabama. His master's degree in biochemistry was awarded when he was 14-years-old. Kearney was teaching college at only 17.

　　卡尼1990年毕业于圣马特奥市高中，那时年仅6岁。10岁时，他在南阿拉巴马大学取得人类学学士学位，14岁时取得生物化学硕士学位，17岁时就已在大学教书了。

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