天才少女被哈佛預言爲“下一個愛因斯坦”
Being compared to geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein is not something that happens to the average person.
被比作史蒂芬·霍金以及阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦這樣的天才這種事不會發生在一個普通人身上。So when we tell you that Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is far from your average human, we mean it.
所以當我們告訴你薩布麗娜·岡薩雷斯·帕斯特斯基遠遠超過了普通人的水準，我們是認真的。At the age of just 23, Paterski has already accomplished more than most of us ever will in our lifetime.
年僅23歲的帕特斯基所取得的成就已經超過了我們多數人一生才能獲得的成績。
When she was only 14-years-old, the Chicago native, constructed her own single engine airplane - by herself.
在她只有14歲的時候，這位芝加哥少女就獨自建造了自己的單引擎飛機。If that wasn't impressive enough she then flew it across Lake Michigan, becoming the youngest person to ever fly their own plane.
如果這還不夠讓人印象深刻的話，之後她又駕駛着飛機飛越了密歇根湖，成爲有史以來最年輕的駕駛着自己的飛機航行的人。The whole venture took two years to complete, and she documented the entire experience on YouTube.
整場冒險活動用了兩年才完成，而且她還記錄了自己的所有經歷並上傳到了Youtube（一家視頻網站）上。She then graduated from Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010 and enrolled with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
之後，在2010年她從伊利諾伊數理高中畢業了，然後進入了著名的麻省理工學院。After just three years at MIT she has already achieved the highest possible grade point average of 5.0.
她在麻省理工學院只用了三年時間就取得了最高的平均績點5.0。She is now working towards her doctorate at the world renowned Harvard University, with full academic freedom and no interference from staff.
如今她在舉世聞名的哈佛大學攻讀博士學位，擁有完全的學術自由，並且不會受到工作人員的干擾。Once again she is only 23-years-old.
再說一次，她只有23歲。
What's even more remarkable is that she is no longer interested in building planes but has turned her attention to physics; namely black holes and how gravity affects space and time - hence the Einstein and Hawking comparisons.
更非凡的是，如今她不再對造飛機感興趣了，而是把注意力放在了物理學上，例如黑洞理論以及重力是如何影響空間和時間的，因此我們把她比作了愛因斯坦和霍金。She particularly wants to study 'quantum gravity,' where see will attempt to understand the link between gravity within the context of quantum physics.
她特別想研究“量子引力”，想試着瞭解重力與量子物理學之間的關係。If her research proves successful, discoveries in this area could vastly change the way we understand the universe.
如果她的研究成功的話，在這一領域的發現會極大地改變我們瞭解宇宙的方式。During an interview earlier this year she said:
在今年早些時候的一次採訪中，她說：Be optimistic about what you believe you can do.
你要對你相信自己能做到的事持樂觀態度。When you're little, you say a lot of things about what you'll do or be when you're older - I think it's important not to lose sight of those dreams.
在你小的時候，你講了許多關於自己將來要做什麼或是長大後要成爲什麼樣的人，我認爲重要的是不要忘記曾經的夢想。
