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Self-study material 12.2 Anything you can say 仁者见仁 参考译文 我每周三次在UNLV( University of Nevada Las Vegas) 大学教经济学。上周一开始上课的时候，我问学生们周末过得怎么样。有一个小伙子说他过得不怎么样，因为他拨了一颗智齿。然后他又问我为什么总是看上去很开心。 他让我想起了曾经看过的一句话：每天早上醒来的时候，你都可以选择如何对待这一天，而我选择了开心对待。 我给在座的60个学生举了自己的例子。我除了在UNLV大学教书外，还在离我家17英里的汉德森社区大学兼职。几个星期前的一天，我开了17英里的车到达汉德森。我下了公路，驶入大学路，再开1/4英里就能到学校了。可就在这时，我的车熄火了，我怎么也无法点着它。所以我打开闪光灯，抓起课本径直走到校区。 我立即给AAA（American Automobile Association ）打了电话，让他们下课后安排拖车过来。院长办公室的秘书问我怎么回事，我笑着告诉她这是我的幸运日。 她对此非常不解，车坏了我怎么还说是幸运日呢？ 我住在17英里之外，如果今天我的车注定要坏，它可能坏在公路的任何一段，可它偏偏在最合适不过的地方熄火了，我既没有妨碍公路上的车流，还可以步行到教室，安排下课后拖车。 秘书的眼睛争得大大的，然后她笑了，我也笑着来到教室。这是我的故事。 我注意到，尽管还很早，我的经济学课上60个学生没有一个在睡觉。也许我的故事感染了他们，也许，一切都只是因为一个学生注意到了我很高兴。 参考译文 The term, nanotechnology, may not sound unfamiliar anymore. It has become a buzzword within the high-tech community, but when asked what’s it about and its impact on our life，I’m afraid many people are not able to answer right away. As a matter of fact, it’s already a part of daily life for many. The promise of nanotechnology is almost unlimited. Some may think nanotechnology is all in the future; however, that’s not the case. In the US, nano trousers are already on the market. They feel like ordinary cotton trousers but there’s a thin nano layer, which resists spills and stains. So, if you spill your drink, it just runs off. The trousers don’t even get damp. Nano trousers are just one application of the technology. Nano can be used to produce almost anything you want. Nanotechnology is the science of the very small. But how small is small? Well, imagine I were shrunk to a size 1000 times smaller. I’d be about as big as the eye of a fly, but nano is even smaller than that. In fact, much, much smaller. Imagine I were shrunk again, this time by 10,000 times. I’d be about as big as a virus, but nano is even smaller than that. You’d have to shrink me another 100 times to get the nano version of me, a billion times smaller than the real me. Industry is already building devi