这是薛非英语外刊精读栏目第60期
原文刊登于《Scientific American》（2018.06.01）
1.原文赏析
① Thomas Alva Edison famously opined that genius is “one percentinspiration, ninety-percent perspiration.” ② Though the inventor and businessman fell short of self-identifying as an atheist, he also asserted, in a 1910 New York Times Magazine interview, that “Nature did it all—not the gods of the religions.” ③ New research suggests that Edison’s two statements above—and similar others he made—could be more intrinsically connected than it might seem at first sight: people who experience more inspiration in their lives tend to be stronger believers in God.
2.单词实记
opine 认为，想
inspiration 灵感，点子
self-identifying 自我认同的
intrinsically 内在地，本质地
fall short of 缺乏，不履行
3.难句剖析
1.Though the inventor and businessman fell short of self-identifying as an atheist, he also asserted, in a 1910 New York Times Magazine interview, that “Nature did it all—not the gods of the religions.”
前半句是让步状语从句，主语是“the inventor and businessman”（此处指的是一个人，即爱迪生本人即是发明家，也是生意人）；全句的主干是“he also asserted”，中间隔了一个插入语，最后是宾语从句“that “Nature did it…”
4.全文翻译
托马斯爱迪生有一句名言“天才就是1%的灵感加上99%的坚持”。尽管这位发明家、企业家没觉得自己是个无神论者，但是他也在1910年接受纽约时报采访时说过，“这一切都是大自然的造化，而非任何宗教的神。”最新研究发现，爱迪生说过的这两句话（也包括他说过的其他话），乍一看联系不大，但仔细品味，却有很深的内在联系：灵感越多的人，就越信上帝。
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