英语四级阅读理解逐句翻译2(3)

2007年英语4级

后一刻，你还盯着文稿，头脑一片空白。

Instead of staring at a blank start filling it with words no matter how bad.

不要盯着空白的屏幕，无论多么糟糕，都开始写下去。

Halfway through you available time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product.

写作时间进行到一半时，停下来整理你的初稿，让它更接近终稿。

Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.

不断前后重复，直到时间用尽。这样，你所得到的终稿会比你用现在在练习中写的文稿要好得多。

二、

I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again.

我不想再谈关于作为一位女性科学家的问题了。

There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated by men.

有一段时间，人们不断地问我在男性主导的领域中工作的故事。

I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting.

我不擅长将这些故事，因为实际上我并不觉得它们有趣。

What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.

我真正感兴趣的是宇宙的起源，时空的形状和黑洞的本质。

At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom.