英语“曲线翻译”探索

在问题提出以前让我们先看一个翻译实例。《大学英语》精读教程(复旦大学主编)第二册第五单元课文 The Professor and the Yo-Yo(《教授和玩具悠悠》)中有这么一段文字:As a boy and then as an adult,I never lost mywonder at the personality that was Einstein.Hewas the only person I knew who had come ot termswith himself and the world around him.He knewwhat he wanted and he wanted only this:to under-stand within his limits as a human being the