Mothers of Four Fields 四大領(lǐng)域之母

選編/Maggie+譯/張曉敏

Isadora Duncan： the Mother of Modern Dance

伊莎多拉·鄧肯：現(xiàn)代舞之母

（1877～1927， American）

Isadora Duncan， one of the great innovators in the history of dance， is considered the Mother of Modern Dance. Her dance movements were borrowed from Ancient Greece， and she danced in flowing costumes， bare feet， and loose hair—revolutionary at the time. Duncan used music and movement to convey the nature of her innermost being. Although she was criticized for it at the time， Duncan dared to use music of master composers for her dances and her superb musicality was quickly recognized. Her dance technique and choreography1）， the extraordinary events that marked her life， and her philosophy and writings on dance and life continue to fascinate dancers and historians. Duncan's work was not filmed during her lifetime. Primarily what we know of her technique and choreography today has been handed down directly from dancer to dancer.

Florence Nightingale： the Mother of Modern Nursing

弗洛倫斯·南丁格爾：現(xiàn)代護理學(xué)之母

（1820～1910， British）

Florence Nightingale is best known for having founded modern nursing and helped improve the care provided by hospitals. During the Crimean War （1854～1856） she sought to improve sanitary2） conditions in the medical facilities. Her proof of the effectiveness of proper hygiene for the recovery from wounds and disease led to a reform of the entire military hospital system. After the war， using money donated from her former patients and the public， she founded the Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital. This institution continued to improve what was becoming the nursing profession. Many of the nurses trained at her schools went on to become matrons3） at the leading hospitals in Britian. Nightingale remained unmarried， and retreated increasingly into the isolation of her home because of ill health. Yet through her writing， she remained an important consultant on health issues. Her extensive use of diagrams4） helped to make her work understandable to professionals and the common person alike. She was honored with the Royal Red Cross in 1883 and was also the first woman elected to the Royal Statistical Society. In 1907， she was the first woman to be granted the British Order of Merit5）.

弗洛倫斯·南丁格爾因開創(chuàng)了現(xiàn)代護理學(xué)并幫助提高了醫(yī)院護理水平而最為知名。在克里米亞戰(zhàn)爭（1854～1856年）期間，她曾致力于提高醫(yī)療設(shè)施的衛(wèi)生條件。她關(guān)于良好的衛(wèi)生條件有利于傷病恢復(fù)的論證促成了整個軍事醫(yī)院系統(tǒng)的改革。戰(zhàn)爭結(jié)束后，她用自己以前的病人和公眾的捐款在圣托馬斯醫(yī)院建立了南丁格爾護士培訓(xùn)學(xué)校兼護士之家。這所學(xué)校繼續(xù)改善后來成為護理專業(yè)的這項事業(yè)。許多在這里受過培訓(xùn)的護士后來都成了英國各大一流醫(yī)院的護士長。南丁格爾一生未婚，后來由于健康欠佳逐漸與世隔絕，隱退在家。但通過她的著作，她仍是有關(guān)健康問題的重要顧問。她在書中廣泛運用圖解，讓專業(yè)人士以及普通人都能讀懂她的著作。1883年，南丁格爾被授予皇家紅十字勛章，同時也是第一位入選皇家統(tǒng)計學(xué)會的女性。1907年，南丁格爾成為第一位獲得英國榮譽勛章的女性。endprint

1. choreography [?k?ri??ɡr?fi] n. 舞蹈動作的編排設(shè)計；舞蹈設(shè)計藝術(shù)

2. sanitary [?s?n?tri] adj. 衛(wèi)生的；清潔的

3. matron [?me?tr?n] n. 護士長

4. diagram [?da??ɡr?m] n. 示意圖；圖解

5. British Order of Merit： 英國榮譽勛章。該勛章于1902年由英王愛德華七世所創(chuàng)設(shè)，以嘉獎在軍事、科學(xué)、藝術(shù)、文學(xué)或推廣文化方面有顯著成就的人。

Rachel Carson： the Mother of Environmental Movement

蕾切爾·卡森：環(huán)保運動之母

（1907～1964， American）

Rachel Carson is considered the Mother of the Modern Environmental Movement through her book， Silent Spring， by pushing for environmental policies that would protect human health and the environment.

Few books have altered the course of history—Silent Spring was one of them. The tidal wave of protest that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of the pesticide DDT6） and resulted in revolutionary changes in public perception about our air， land， and water. It helped launch the modern environmental movement. Rachel Carson's passionate plea for restraint， common sense， and stewardship7） resulted in fundamental changes not only in North America， but also throughout the world. So profound was the impact of her book that it has been compared with Uncle Tom's Cabin， by Harriet Beecher Stowe， and On the Origin of Species， by Charles Darwin. Time magazine has chosen Rachel Carson as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.

蕾切爾·卡森因其著作《寂靜的春天》催生了保護人類健康和環(huán)境的環(huán)境政策而被譽為現(xiàn)代環(huán)保運動之母。

改變歷史進程的書少之又少，而《寂靜的春天》就是其中之一。該書于1962年出版，隨后引發(fā)的抗議浪潮使殺蟲劑DDT被強行禁用，并使公眾對空氣、土地和水的認知發(fā)生了革命性改變。它幫助發(fā)起了一場現(xiàn)代環(huán)保運動。蕾切爾·卡森在書中熱誠地懇求人們限制破壞環(huán)境的行為、增強環(huán)保常識、加強政府監(jiān)管，這些懇求不僅在北美而且在全世界都引發(fā)了根本性變革。該書影響力如此深遠，一直被人們拿來與哈里特·比徹·斯托的《湯姆叔叔的小屋》以及查爾斯·達爾文的《物種起源》相提并論。蕾切爾·卡森還被《時代周刊》評選為“20世紀最有影響力的思想家”之一。

Emmy Noether： the Mother of Modern Algebra

埃米·諾特：現(xiàn)代代數(shù)學(xué)之母

（1882～1935， German）

Emmy Noether， a German mathematician， was the world leader in the 20th century development of modern "abstract" algebra. Her writing， the students she inspired， and their books wholly changed the form and content of higher algebra throughout the world.

In 1915， Noether worked as an assistant to the world-famous mathematician David Hilbert， giving a course in his name （she was not allowed to lecture at the time on her own account） and applied her knowledge of invariant8） theory to relativity theory in a paper that impressed Einstein. In 1920， she turned her attention to algebra and inspired many excellent students. With the rise of Hitler in 1933， Noether was dismissed from her modest position as non-tenured9） professor at Gottingen—she was not only Jewish but a woman and a liberal. The Rockefeller Foundation helped to fund a position for her in the United States at Bryn Mawr College， where there was a long tradition of interest in higher mathematical research. At Bryn Mawr， she helped various young women mathematicians. She advised Marie J. Weiss10） and guided the Ph.D. thesis of Ruth Stauffer （McKee）11）.

德國數(shù)學(xué)家埃米·諾特引領(lǐng)了20世紀世界上現(xiàn)代“抽象”代數(shù)學(xué)的發(fā)展。她本人的著作、受她啟發(fā)的學(xué)生以及這些學(xué)生的著作完全改變了全世界高等代數(shù)的形式和內(nèi)容。

1915年，諾特作為世界知名數(shù)學(xué)家戴維·希爾伯特的助教以他的名義在大學(xué)里教課（當(dāng)時她不能以自己的名義開課），她在一篇論文里將自己關(guān)于不變量理論的知識應(yīng)用于相對論，給愛因斯坦留下深刻印象。1920年，她將研究重點轉(zhuǎn)向代數(shù)學(xué)，并啟發(fā)了許多優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生。1933年希特勒上臺之后，諾特從格丁根大學(xué)非終身教授這低微的職位上被解雇，因為她不僅是猶太人，還是一位女性、一名自由主義者。后來洛克菲勒基金會在美國的布林莫爾學(xué)院給她資助了一份教職，這所學(xué)院有著重視高等數(shù)學(xué)研究的悠久傳統(tǒng)。在布林莫爾學(xué)院，她幫助過許多年輕的女?dāng)?shù)學(xué)家。她曾指導(dǎo)過瑪麗·J·韋斯，還是露絲·斯托弗（麥基）的博士論文導(dǎo)師。

6. DDT： 一種殺蟲劑，對人類的毒性低，曾被廣為使用。但人們后來發(fā)現(xiàn)它不易降解，積累過多會對魚類和鳥類生存繁殖不利，破壞生態(tài)平衡，因此在世界大部分地區(qū)已經(jīng)被禁。

7. stewardship [?stju??d??p] n. 管理工作

8. invariant [?n?ve?ri?nt] n. 不變量

9. tenure [?tenj?（r）] vt. 授予……終身職位

10. Marie J. Weiss： 瑪麗·J·韋斯（1903～1952），美國數(shù)學(xué)領(lǐng)域的先驅(qū)者，曾任杜蘭大學(xué)紐科姆學(xué)院數(shù)學(xué)教授。

11. Ruth Stauffer （McKee）： 露絲·斯托弗（麥基） （1910～1993），美國數(shù)學(xué)家，是埃米·諾特唯一的美國博士生。endprint