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前些日子规划研究任务时,我把部分工作安排到了圣诞节(当然是不得已为之)。导师看到之后,努努嘴,我便不假思索解释道:“That's ok… Christmas means nothing to me.”孰知他听后大笑,赶忙拿起纸笔记下这句话,说道:“这话在我们西方人看来太怪异了,不过考虑到文化的差异这却非常有趣。我一定要在你毕业时加上这句话!”
这让我想起了荷兰人的博士毕业论文。荷兰的博士论文装订精美,在封面与首页之间夹有一枚书签和一张个人陈述。由于是活页,这张非正式的个人陈述可以有一些科学研究之外的个性化内容。于是,个人陈述的前半部分是关于博士论文的核心内容或纲要,而后半部分则是一些幽默轻松的语句。导师办公室的书架上就摆着一排这样的论文,其中包括他自己论文的几份印刷本,另有二十多本论文是他在荷兰时的同事或前辈赠送的。我逐个翻阅,摘抄部分有趣的句子如下。
1. 原创的幽默:
In the kitchen, a creative scientist is either an excellent cook or a very dangerous one.
Submerging yourself in a different culture is an amazing way to discover more about your own.
There is nothing bubbles can't fix.
2. 直接引用的幽默:
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserve as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do (W. Shakespeare. As You Like It – Act III, Scence II).
It is your paper that has been rejected, not you (Edwin Gale, Editor of Diabetologia).
3. 貌似多余的幽默:
A mouse should not be mistaken as a small rat.
Learning French is the only way to truly understand the French.
Science is fun.
由于大部分论文的个人陈述是用荷兰语写的,我不知道里面究竟写了些什么,但我相信其中必定有许多有趣的内容。
科学是有趣的,科学家往往也很有趣。
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