《天才少女》精讲 33玛丽见千年难题

Look

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These are the Millennium¹ Problems

这些都是千年难题

Seven great and meaningful problems

七个意义重大的难题

Some mathematicians² have worked their entire lives to prove them

有些数学家用了一辈子时间来证明

Who's the dude with the beard?

这个大胡子是谁

That's not a dude

他可不是普通人

That's Grigori Perelman

他是格里戈里·佩雷尔曼

He proved the Poincaré conjecture³

他证明了庞加莱猜想

The only one of the seven proved

七个问题中唯一一个得到证明的

This

这个

This is your mother's problem

这是你妈研究的问题

Na vi

纳维…

Navier Stokes

纳维尔斯托克斯方程

No picture

没照片啊

She didn't solve it? No

她没证明吗 没有

She was close

她当时快证明出来了

She would have won the Fields Medal

她本来可以获得菲尔茨奖

and probably shared a Nobel

还可能分享诺贝尔奖

considering what it would have meant for physics

因为在物理学上也有重要意义

Maybe I'll have my picture up here someday

也许将来我的照片也能挂在上面

If you really desire it

如果你真的想

you can have your picture there darling

你可以把你的照片挂在上面 孩子

I can help you

我可以帮你

It takes focus and hard work but if you succeed

这需要专注和刻苦 但如果你成功了

your name will live forever

你将流芳百世

1 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。

2 mathematicians   

数学家( mathematician的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? 你以为我们的数学家做不到这一点吗？ 来自英汉文学
• Mathematicians can solve problems with two variables. 数学家们可以用两个变数来解决问题。 来自哲学部分

3 conjecture   

n./v.推测，猜测

参考例句：

• She felt it no use to conjecture his motives.她觉得猜想他的动机是没有用的。
• This conjecture is not supported by any real evidence.这种推测未被任何确切的证据所证实。