《大学英语阅读教程》unit 3-1.pptVIP

But no matter what they think of laboratory work, most researchers say that it was not until they were in graduate school, well on their way to becoming scientists, that they realized what the career path actually is. …most researchers say that it was not until they were in graduate school and already a long way towards becoming scientists that they realized what the actual life of a scientist is like. 许多研究人员都说他们是在进了研究生院，在通往科学家的路上走了很远之后才意识到事业的道路真正是个什么样子（一个科学家真正的生活是什么样子）。 Dr. Kenneth Gross, a molecular geneticist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., remembers well his epiphany. It happened when he was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One day, Dr. Gross was working happily in the lab next to a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Arthur Skoultchi, who is now at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Full of enthusiasm, Dr. Gross said, he remarked that the most incredible thing is that they paid you to work in a lab. Dr. Skoultchi, he said, replied, Enjoy it while you can, and explained to Dr. Gross what lay ahead. Young scientists move up the ladder from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to assistant professor to, they hope, recipient of a federal grant. From then on, their time in the lab rapidly dwindles to nothing. Dr. Lu explained that it was not so surprising that most successful scientists ended up as thinkers rather than doers. Thats the whole problem with big science, he said. You have to have an army of people to do the work. But, he added, Part of what makes a person become a scientist is the desire for influence and power. And the only way you can have that is to have a group of people working on your ideas. …it was not much of a surprise that most successful scientists finally became thinkers rather than doers of experimental work. 大多数的科学家最终都成了思想家，而非实干家。这不足为奇。 A typical research group at a leading university has about a dozen people, paid for mainly by grant money either from the federal government, private g