课文翻译：当我还是一个在纽约州新罗谢尔长大的青少年时，我的公告板上挂着一张玛丽·居里坐在榆树下的照片，她的胳膊搂着她的女儿，两岁的伊芙和九岁的艾琳。除了基本知识之外，我对居里的了解不多：她和她的丈夫发现了放射性。
她是第一个赢得两项诺贝尔奖的人。她才华横溢，一心一意，是个传奇人物。我只是一个没有方向感的女孩，更喜欢文字和虚构的故事，而不是公式和实验室实验。
回首往事，我想我之所以如此欣赏这张照片，不是因为玛丽·居里和她所代表的一切，而是因为她看起来很有异国情调一也许是因为她的手臂环绕着她的女儿们。
我的母亲躺在医院里，从车祸中的重伤中恢复过来。我希望她抱着我，但她不能。所以，我崇拜玛丽，她在我心目中是世界上最坚强、最有能力的女人。
原文：
While I was a teenager growing up in New Rochelle，New York，I had up on my bulletinboard a photo of Marie Curie sitting under an elm tree，her arms wrapped around her daughters，two-year-old Eve and nine-year-old Irene.
I didn't know very much about Curie beyond the basics：She and her husband had discovered radioactivity. She was the first person to win two Nobelprizes. She was brilliant，single-minded，a legend.
I was just a girl with little direction，moredrawn to words and made-up stories than to formulas and lab experiments.
Looking back，I think I admired that photo so much，not because of Marie Curie and whatshe stood for but because she seemed so exotic一or maybe because of how her arms encircledher girls.
My own mother lay in the hospital，recovering from a grave injury in a car crash. Iwanted her to hold me，but she couldn't. So，instead，I idolized Marie，who in my mind becamethe strongest and most capable woman in the world.