lowing text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
46） The story of an anguished love affair between Albert Einstein and the woman who would later become his first wife has emerged in newly disclosed correspondence between them.
47） Many of the letters describe the love between the young scientist and his future wife, Mileva Maric; the pain associated with his mother’s vehement disapproval of the relationship; and their excitement over the impending birth of a child.
The fate of the child, a girl, however, remains a mystery. She was born before the couple married in 1903 and there apparently is no record of what became of her.
48）Intertwined with the disclosures of a difficult romance are fragments of Einstein’s thought as he struggled toward confidence in his concept of relativity.
Einstein and Maric, a Serb born in a region of Hungary that is now part of Yugoslavia, became friends in 1896 while studying together at the Federal Technical Institute in Zurich. In subsequent years they wrote frequently as Einstein’s efforts to find work and Maric’s visits home caused many separations.
In his letters, Einstein confided in her his efforts to participate in the revolution taking place in many fields of physics, including the nature of light, relative movement and molecular phenomenon.
49） According to Dr. John Stachel, a professor of physics at Boston University who is editor of the Einstein papers, Maric appears to have been more of “ a sounding board” than a contributor to Einstein’s ideas.
In a letter to Maric in 1899, when he was 20 years old, Einstein anticipated his first theory of relativity, published six years later. 50） It came in a period when many physicists still believed that space was filled with an invisible medium through which light waves could be propagated. They called the medium a “luminiferous ether”.
Einstein’s letters also reveal his family’s disdain for Maric. In July 1900 he had been warned by his sister that his parents were bitterly opposed to him marrying Maric. When he told his mother of his intention, “Mama threw herself on the bed, buried her head in the pillows, and cried like a child,” he wrote to Maric.
“After she had recovered from the initial shock, she immediately switched to a desperate offensive,” Einstein continued. He quoted his mother as saying, “You are ruining your future and blocking your path through life.”
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