that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.

我是一所大学里的一名新生，如果我当时真的被看成像一个问题那样有趣，我会感到很得意的。

For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market.

比如说，亚历克斯。奥，一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士，已经在台湾建厂，对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。

examined a very large number of men working on aircraft carriers:

调查了许多在航空母舰上工作的人，

Today, enough soundings are available to enable a relief map of the Atlantic to be drawn

现在已有足够的水深测量数据来绘制一张大西洋洋底地形图，

but the scientific dust has long since settled,

但是，自他逝世以来，那场科学上的纷争早已平息了下来，

that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.

他说，初稿是才华，以后各稿是艺术。