A few months ago, my teenage daughter and I went to see a lecture by Stephen Hawking at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute. The event had been postponed once because he was unwell; I worried that his body might finally give out, albeit five decades later than doctors had expected. Yet a new date was set and Hawking duly arrived, as if from another world, to deliver a spellbinding talk in his distinctive synthetic voice.
几个月前，我和十几岁的女儿去牛津大学数学研究所(Oxford’s Mathematical Institute)听斯蒂芬•霍金(Stephen Hawking)的讲座。讲座曾经因霍金身体欠佳而推迟过一次；我当时担心他的身体可能终于不行了，虽然他已经比医生预计的多坚持了50年。然而，讲座确定了一个新的日期，霍金准时抵达了会场，他就像来自另一个世界一样，用自己独特的合成声音做了一个充满魔力的演讲。
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