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The Lost Years of A NobelLaureate;Discussion;John Nash ;;More about John Nash;He was later diagnosed with a subtype of schizophrenia called paranoid schizophrenia. (妄想型精神分裂症);3. recognition: In 1994, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (along with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten) as a result of his game theory work as a Princeton graduate student. ;Text Analysis;Parts Paras Main ideas Part One 1-12 A brief summary of Nash’s achievements and the progress of his illness. Part Two 13-18 Nash as a genius student before he went to Princeton Part Three 19-27 Nash’s brilliant achievement ; Part Four 28-34 Nash’s illness Part Five 35-39 Nash being taken care of by the various people around him Part Six 40-47 Nash’s recovery from illness. ;Text Analysis;2. The essay is about the life story of John Nash told mostly in a chronological way. Describe how the writer indicates the time sequence and pieces together the whole story. From the second part on, the writer uses subheadings to show readers the different stages of Nash’s life chronologically. ;Language points (part one);Para 3 award: Something awarded or granted, as for merit. 奖品，奖：因优点奖励或授予的东西 Educational Development Awards [英]教育发展奖金 literary awards 文学奖金;A decision, such as one made by a judge or arbitrator. 判定，判决：决定，如法官或仲裁者所作出的 awardable adj. awardee n.受奖者 awarder n.授奖者 ;V: 1) To grant as merited or due: 奖励，授予：因优点或善行而给予： awarded prizes to the winners. 给优胜者授予奖品 2) To give as legally due: 判给：因司法判决给予： awarded damages to the plaintiff. 判给原告损害赔偿金; The award was a miracle. It wasn’t just that Mr. Nash, one of the mathematical geniuses of the postwar era, was finally getting the recognition he deserved. Nor that he was being honored for a slender 27Ph.D. thesis written almost half a century ago at the tender age of 21. ;Questions: 1. Why was the reward a miracle? Because Nash had got a serious disease. 2. Analyze the structure of the