5.Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!--Sergey Brin
5.《别闹了，费曼先生！》与谢尔盖·布林
Sergey Brin met his future business partner, Larry Page, at Stanford University. Together, they created a search engine that would sort results by popularity. Of course, that search engine was called Google, and it forever changed the world.
谢尔盖·布林在斯坦福大学遇到了他未来的商业伙伴——拉里·佩奇。他们共同创建了一个搜索引擎，用其进行词条搜索时，所呈现的搜索结果会按热门程度排序。当然，这个搜索引擎就是谷歌，它永远地改变了世界。
The book that had quite a big impact on Brin was Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, by Nobel-winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman helped to develop the nuclear bomb, and he also wrote some books that popularized theoretical physics. He was also known for writing humorous, semi-autobiographical books, and one of the most popular was 1985's Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! What stuck with Brin after all those years was Feynman's open-mindedness. He was impressed with the fact that Feynman wanted to be the Leonardo da Vinci of his time. He was a musician, a storyteller, a scientist, and a humorist. The book was incredibly influential to Brin because he realized that it was important to be both innovative and creative. Fittingly, another favorite book of Brin's is Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. It predicted the rise of online communities and programs like Google Earth.
对布林产生巨大影响的书，是诺贝尔奖得主、理论物理学家理查德·费曼所著的《别闹了，费曼先生！》。费曼不仅参与开发核弹，还写了一些普及理论物理学的书籍。他也以写幽默的半自传体书籍而闻名。其中最流行的是写于1985年的《别闹了，费曼先生！》。这些年来，最吸引布林的是费曼的开明之心。而费曼想成为他那个时代的列奥纳多·达·芬奇，他是音乐家、作家、科学家与幽默大师，布林对此印象深刻。这本书对布林有着非比寻常的影响力，因为这让他深知具有创新性和创造性至关重要。恰巧，布林最喜欢的另一本书是尼尔·斯蒂芬森所著的《雪崩》，它预示了在线社区和诸如谷歌地图之类的程序的兴起。
4.Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer--Kurt Cobain
4.《香水：一个谋杀犯的故事》与科特·柯本
Nirvana's front man Kurt Cobain is often cited as the voice of his generation. For many fans, he was able to articulate the disenchantment and anger that they felt. Nirvana forever changed American culture, and his death on April 20, 1994, was one of the most defining moments of the 1990s. The book that had the biggest influence on Cobain was a 1985 German novel called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind. The book is hailed for its sensory, transcending nature. It is a book that evokes smell, making it a very immersive read. Perfume takes place in a very dirty 18th-century Paris and is about an orphan named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who has a unique relationship with scents. For example, he himself has no scent, and this small difference makes him a pariah that no one can stand. Grenouille also has an incredibly sensitive nose. He can dissect smells to their finest points. It would be like a chef being able to break down a taste to individual ingredients. Grenouille can also track smells for miles and sense scents all around him. He smells the world in the same way that Marvel's Daredevil "sees" his surroundings.
涅槃乐队主唱科特·柯本通常被认为是他那一代的代表声音。对很多粉丝来说，他能够清楚地表达他们的觉醒和愤慨。涅槃乐队永远改变了美国文化，而科班逝世于1994年4月20日，那是20世纪90年代最重要的时刻之一。对柯本影响最大的书，是1985年帕特里克·聚斯金德所著的德国小说《香水：一个谋杀犯的故事》。该书因其描绘的超自然的感官体验而获得赞誉。这是一本唤起嗅觉的书，能为你营造一种身临其境的阅读氛围。《香水》一书所描述的故事发生在18世纪脏乱差的巴黎，讲述的是一个名叫让-巴蒂斯特·格雷诺耶的孤儿的故事，他与气味有着非比寻常的缘分。例如，他自身没有体味，而这一小小的差异使他沦为世所难容的贱民。格雷诺耶的嗅觉还异常灵敏，他能够辨析香味的最细微处。这就好比一个厨师尝过一种味道，就能够分析出调制这种味道用到的各种原料。格雷诺耶能追踪数英里以外的气味，更能嗅出他周围的一切气味。就像夜魔侠用其他感官"看到"周围世界一样，他用嗅觉认识世界。
Because smells can be so overwhelming, he also finds that he can't stand humans because of their repulsive smell. As a result of his ability, Grenouille becomes a creepy loner obsessed with preserving the scents of beautiful women, even if it means killing them in the process. Although he is very much an outsider, he also uses his amazing ability to brew perfumes so wonderful that the public clamors for them. He even becomes famous. In hindsight, the parallels between Perfume and Cobain's life are pretty obvious, especially the ending, which we won't give away here. Cobain said that he read the novel at least 10 times, and he always had the book with him. The story is also the basis for the song "Scentless Apprentice" on Nirvana's album, In Utero.
由于气味是如此铺天盖地，他发现他受不了人们，因为他们身上散发出阵阵恶臭。更由于他天赋异禀，格雷诺耶成为了一个恐怖的独行侠，他沉迷于收集美丽少女们身上馨香的体味，即便这意味着在取香的过程中杀死她们。虽他全然是个门外汉，却能用自己惊人的能力调制出异常美妙的香水，以至于人们竞相争购。他也因此成名。事后看来，《香水》所写的故事与柯本的生活十分相似，尤其是结局，我们就不在这里透露了。柯本说这本小说他至少看了10次，并且随身携带。这个故事也是涅槃乐队的专辑《In Utero》中，《Scentless Apprentice》一歌的创作基础。
3.The Aeneid--Mark Zuckerberg
3.《埃涅阿斯纪》与马克·扎克伯格
When Mark Zuckerberg first added his likes to his Facebook profile, he put the book Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, as a favorite book. Later, in an interview with The New Yorker, Zuckerberg clarified that the sci-fi classic was one he enjoyed, but it wasn't his favorite. He said that his favorite book is The Aeneid , by Virgil.
马克·扎克伯格首次在他脸书的个人资料中添加爱好时，把奥森·斯科特·卡德所著的《安德的游戏》列为他最喜欢的书。后来，在接受《纽约客》采访时，扎克伯格却澄清说，这部经典科幻小说他非常喜欢，但却不是他的最爱。他最喜欢的书是维吉尔所著的《埃涅阿斯纪》。
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem that was written somewhere between 29–19 BC. It is about a group of Trojan survivors, led by Aeneas, who leave the city of Troy after it is destroyed by the Greeks. As he is leaving the city, he finds that it is his fate to lay the foundations for Rome. Aeneas and his fellow survivors go on a long and difficult journey that even involves going to the underworld. In spite of their hardships, Aeneas and the other Trojans carry on because it is their fate to build the most magnificent kingdom that the world has ever seen. Zuckerberg said that he first read the book when he was in high school while he was studying Latin. There are certainly parallels between Zuckerberg and Aeneas. Zuckerberg had his own journey to create the greatest social network of all time. Zuckerberg said that one thing that stuck with him was Aeneas's drive to follow his fate to build a city that "knows no boundaries in time and greatness."
《埃涅阿斯纪》是一部拉丁语史诗，公元前29年至公元前19年，作者苦心孤诣，历经十年才完成这部巨著。它讲述的是一群由埃涅阿斯率领的特洛伊战争幸存者，离开被希腊人摧毁的特洛伊城之后发生的故事。埃涅阿斯离开时才发现他的使命或许就是为罗马帝国打下基业，成为开国之君。他和追随自己的幸存者们开始了漫长而艰辛的旅程，甚至几经生死考验。纵有几多艰难险阻，他们也要继续前进，因为去建立一个前所未有的极尽宏伟的帝国，就是他们的宿命。扎克伯格说，他第一次读这本书，是在高中学习拉丁文之时。当然，扎克伯格和 埃涅阿斯之间也有相似之处。他也一直在建立有史以来最大社交网络的征程上努力不懈。扎克伯格说，他深为触动的一点是埃涅阿斯干劲十足去完成他的使命——建造一座"宏伟壮观人惊叹，荣光不朽耀古今"的城市。
2.A Treatise Of Human Nature--Albert Einstein
2.《人性论》与阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of all time. His name is synonymous with brilliance. So, what book had the biggest effect on such an important mind? It was A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume, which was published in 1738. Hume was a Scottish philosopher known for his contributions to philosophical skepticism.
爱因斯坦是人类史上最伟大的智者之一，他的名字也成为了才智的代名词。那么，到底是什么样的著作才能对这样一位举足轻重的智者产生巨大的影响呢？答案是于1738年出版，大卫·休谟所著的《人性论》。这位苏格兰哲学家为哲学怀疑论做出了突出贡献，并因此而闻名于世。
A Treatise of Human Nature, which is actually three books, was Hume's attempt to look at philosophy in a different way. It is a rather complicated book, which should be expected if Einstein loved it. Hume argued that not everything from life can be figured out from experiences. Book I, "Of The Understanding," is about the origins of ideas. Then, he discusses his skepticism about space, time, knowledge, and probability, including the nature of cause and effect. Book II, "Of the Passions," talks about first and second impressions and how our actions are affected by reason and passion. The third book is "Of Morals," where he argues that morality isn't based on logic but is more of a passion. Einstein mentioned a few times that A Treatise of Human Nature had a large influence on him. He read the book just before coming up with his famous special relativity theory. In a letter, Einstein said that Treatise helped him formulate the ideas. It was like he already had the ideas incubated in his brain, and Hume helped him to articulate them.
《人性论》全书分为三卷，在书中休谟试图用另一种视角审视哲学。这更是一本极其复杂的书，也难怪爱因斯坦会钟情于它。休谟指出，并非生活中的任何问题都能用经验主义的方法解决。在第一卷《论知性》中，休谟阐述了其认识论，探讨了其对时间、空间、知识、或然性以及因果法则本质的怀疑。在第二卷《论情感》中，休谟讨论了有关第一、第二印象的理论，以及理性与感性是如何影响我们行为举止的。在第三卷《论道德》中，他提出道德的基础应是情感而非理性。爱因斯坦三番五次提及《人性论》对他产生的巨大影响。在举世闻名的相对论提出前，爱因斯坦恰好读到了这本书。他在一封信中说到，是《人性论》帮他把相对论清晰地表达了出来。就好比相对论的理念本就存在于爱因斯坦的脑中，而休谟的观点又使这一想法更加明朗化。
1.That Printer Of Udell's--Ronald Reagan
1.《德尔的印刷工》与罗纳德·里根
One book that had a big effect on former President Ronald Reagan as a child was the Christian book That Printer of Udell's, by Harold Bell Wright. The main character of the book, Dick Falkner, was born into a broken home with an alcoholic father. In the opening pages of the book, his mother starves to death while his father has passed out. After losing both of his parents, Falkner moves to a bigger city, called Boyd City, and believes that "real Christians" would not let him starve. However, everyone turns Dick down for a job, except for a printer. He hires Dick, and the two become Christians. Dick later becomes a minister and helps to rescue Boyd City. At the end of the book, Dick heads to Washington, DC, to become a politician.
由哈罗德·贝尔·莱特创作的福音书籍《德尔的印刷工》曾深深地影响过孩提时期的美国前总统罗纳德·里根。书中的主人公迪克·福克纳出生于一个支离破碎的家庭，其父是一个酒鬼。故事开头，福克纳的母亲就在他父亲醉死后的不久也活活饿死了。福克纳失去双亲后，搬到了一个叫博伊德的大城市，他坚信在那里，"真正的基督徒"是不会让他挨饿的。然而，迪克的求职之路并不顺利，他屡遭拒绝，只有一位印刷商愿意对他施以援手。印刷商雇佣了迪克后，两人纷纷成为了虔诚的基督教徒。之后，迪克又做了牧师，以救赎博伊德城为己任。在故事的最后，迪克去了华盛顿，成为一名政治家。
The impact that the book had on Reagan was twofold, and it would forever change the course of his life. The first was that it inspired him to get baptized, and he became a Presbyterian, which he would remain until the day he died. The second was that it showed him that good could triumph over evil and that the good guys followed a code of morality. This, of course, can be seen as a driving factor in his presidency, especially his stance on communism and his War on Drugs. Another book that had a big impact on Reagan was Witness, by Whittaker Chambers. The book is about Chambers's time in the US Communist Party, which he joined in 1925 and became a spy for the Soviets. Chambers later renounced communism and testified against Alger Hiss at his perjury and espionage trial. The book reconfirmed Reagan's belief and stance against communism.
这本书对里根有双重影响，并永远地改变了他的人生轨迹。一方面，该书激励里根接受洗礼，他成了一名长老教会成员，直到去世。另一方面，该书教会了里根邪不压正的真谛，教导他善者要遵循基本道德规范。这一点自然也成为了里根总统任职期间一系列作为的驱动因素，他对待共产主义强硬的态度和坚持抵制毒品就是例证。另一本对里根影响巨大的著作是惠特克·钱伯斯创作的《见证》。该书讲述了钱伯斯作为美国共产党党员期间的故事。他于1925年加入美国共产党，并成为一名前苏联间谍。后来他又背弃了共产主义，并在阿尔杰·希斯伪证案中指证希斯是其党内同志，成希斯与其他同志企图在政府机关内安插共产党员及其同情者。这本书更加坚定了里根的政治信仰，令他始终坚定不移地站在反共阵营。
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