美國神童11歲大學畢業

11-year-old child prodigy Tanishq Abraham is in the news for graduating from college with not one, not two, but three different degrees. The talented kid from California made headlines last year as well, for completing high school at the age of ten and earning a congratulatory letter from President Barack Obama. And now, just a year later, he’s finished college with three associate degrees.
11歲神童塔尼奇·亞拉伯罕成了新聞熱點，因爲他小小年紀就大學畢業，還拿了不只一個，也不是兩個，而是三個學位。這位來自加州的小神童在去年也上了頭條，因其10歲就高中畢業，還獲得了總統奧巴馬的祝賀信。而今，僅僅過了一年，他就拿了三個學位畢業了。

Last week’s graduation ceremony at the American River College in Sacramento was attended by Tanishq’s parents – his mother Taji, a vet, and his father Bijou, a software engineer. His sister Tiara, also a child prodigy, was present as well. They cheered for Tanishq as he was awarded associate degrees in math and physical sciences, general science, and language studies. He wore a rainbow colored scarf that his grandmother had knit specially for the occasion, and a cap with his favorite Toy Story-quote: ‘To Infinity and Beyond.”
上週在薩克拉門託(Sacramento)美國河流學院 (American River College)舉行的畢業典禮上，塔尼奇的父母也來到現場——他的母親塔吉（Taji）是一位獸醫，而父親比茹（Bijou）是一位軟件工程師。他的妹妹提亞娜（Tiara）也是個小神童，她也來了。塔尼奇被授予了數學及物理科學，自然科學，和語言學的副學士學位，家人們都爲他鼓掌歡呼。他戴着祖母特地爲他織的彩條圍巾，帽子上寫着他最喜歡的玩具總動員中的名言：“飛向無限。”

“The assumption is that he’s the all-time youngest,” said college spokesman Scott Crow. “But we don’t have all the archives to completely confirm. He was definitely the youngest this year.”
“據說他是史上年紀最小的畢業生，”學校發言人斯科特·克勞人（Scott Crow）說，“可我們並沒有完整的記錄來證實這件事，但他絕對是今年畢業生中年紀最小的。”

Tanishq said that he wasn’t intimidated by the fact that his classmates were all twice his age, especially because he was well-received. “A lot were really happy that there was a kid in their class,” he said. And his parents were pretty low-key about the whole affair, being used to all his accomplishments since a young age. “Even in kindergarten, he was a few years ahead,” Taji said. “It just went from there.”
塔尼奇說，他的同學年紀都是他兩倍，可他並不感到恐慌，不僅如此，他在班級裏還很受歡迎。“許多同學都很高興班裏有個小孩。”他說。他的父母對於他的這些成就也很低調，因爲他們早就習慣了。“早在幼兒園，他就超出同齡人不少，”塔吉說，“接下來一直都這樣。”

“The way my brain works is that when you give me something, information about that topic comes into my mind. ‘I don’t know what it is,” Tanishq revealed.
“我的大腦工作方式是這樣的，你給我一個話題，有關信息就自動在我腦海裏出現。我也不知道怎麼回事。”塔尼奇說。

Interestingly, Tanishq has been home-schooled by his mother, who put her own career on hold to teach him. He’s also been taking classes at the American River College since he was seven years old. He joined Mensa International – a group of people whose IQ is in the top two percent of the population – at the age of four. His sister also joined Mensa at the age of 4, making them the youngest siblings to join the high-IQ society.
有趣的是，塔尼奇曾有兩年是在家上學，他的媽媽把工作放到一邊，負責在家教他。自他七歲起，便在美國河流學院旁聽。他還加入門薩國際——一個IQ最高的2%人羣組成的俱樂部——而這是在他四歲的時候。他的妹妹也在四歲時加入，這讓他們成爲高智商俱樂部裏年紀最小的兄妹。

In order to join Mensa, one needs to score in or above the 98 percentile on a Mensa-approved standardized IQ test. Tanishq scored 99.9 percentile and Tiara scored 99 percentile on the test.
想要加入門薩，你必須在門薩指定的標準智商測試中得98分以上。而塔尼奇得了99.9分，提亞娜得了99分。

You’d think that Tanishq is probably done with books for his life, but he actually has no plans to stop learning. “I want to become a doctor,” he said after the ceremony. “But I also want to become a medical researcher, and also the president of the United States.” In a tweet, he revealed that he hopes to win the Nobel Prize some day in medicine or research. In the meantime, he plans to spend his summer on a family vacation and a Calculus II course.
你可能認爲塔尼奇已經完成學業，但是他可沒想過要就此止步。“我想成爲一名醫生，”他在畢業典禮結束後說，“我還想成爲醫學研究員，我還想當美國總統。”在一條推特上他說，他希望將來在醫療或研究方面獲得諾貝爾獎。同時，在畢業的這個夏天，他打算和家人一起度假，還有學習微積分二的課程。

Vocabulary
child prodigy 神童
home-schooled 在家上學的