精英會:年諾貝爾頒獎禮圖文回顧

Nobel prize winners gathered in Stockholm on Monday in white tie and tails for the official 2012 awards ceremony in the company of Carl XVI Gustaf, the reigning king of Sweden.

在瑞典執政國王古斯塔夫十六世的陪伴下，諾貝爾獎獲得者週一打着領帶穿着燕尾服聚集在斯德哥爾摩2012年正式頒獎典禮上。

The laureates faced the full spectacle of an event that began with a toast to Alfred Nobel, and paused – before a lunch of Arctic char – for a circus act that asked, through the medium of acrobatics, is it possible to knit peace?

獲獎者要參與該典禮的完整場面，從向阿爾弗雷德•諾貝爾致敬開始，在紅點鮭午餐前爲要求的馬戲團表演稍作休息，在雜技的中間段，這有可能編織和平嗎？

The Cambridge biologist Sir John Gurdon shared the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine with the Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, for demonstrating how cells can be reprogrammed into a more youthful state.

劍橋大學的生物學家約翰爵士古爾與日本科學家山中伸彌一起分享了諾貝爾生理學或醫學獎，因論證細胞如何被“再編程”回到更年輕的狀態。

Serge Haroche and David Wineland, shared the physics prize. They showed how to trap and handle particles of light and matter without destroying them.

塞爾日•阿羅什和戴維•瓦恩蘭共享物理學獎。他們展示了在沒有破壞它們的情況下如何操縱和處理光和物質的粒子。

The chemistry prize went to two US doctors, Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, whose work revealed how the body responds to sights, smells, threats and flavours.

化學獎授予了兩位美國醫生羅伯特•萊夫科維茨和布萊恩•克比爾卡，他們的工作揭示了人體對於視覺、嗅覺、威脅和偏好的反應。

In a banquet speech, Mo Yan – the farm boy from China, now winner of the literature prize – said it all felt like a fairytale, but of course it was all true.

莫言在一個晚宴上發表演說，-----來自中國的農村男孩，現在的諾貝爾文學獎得主-----說所有的感覺就像一個童話，但當然這都是真實的。

"It has been a golden opportunity for me to learn about the world and, even more so, an opportunity for me to learn about myself," he said.

“這是一個絕好的機會讓我瞭解世界，更重要的是，一個機會讓我瞭解我自己，”他說。