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A 9-Year-Old Is About to Get a University Degree. He Has #Giganticplans. 一名9岁孩子即将拿到大学学位，他有着#宏伟计划 Soon, Laurent Simons, 9, of Belgium will become one of the youngest people in the world to graduate from a university. For this, his teachers and others have called him a genius. 很快，今年9岁、来自比利时的劳伦特.西蒙斯将会成为世界上年龄最小的大学毕业生之一。因此，他的老师和其他人把他称为天才。 “ A lot of people have stereotypes about young geniuses,”his father, Alexander, a dentist, said in a phone interview. 他的父亲亚历山大是一名牙医。他在一次电话采访中表示:“许多人对神童有刻板印象。 That's because the world has long been fascinated by prodigies celebrated for their ability to master an instrument or achieve outstanding sports performances. 这是因为，长久以来，那些因为精通一个]乐器，或是在体育方面有卓越表现而得到赞颂的天才，才会让世人着迷。 But in an era when social media carries a certain cachet and influencers make gobs of money posing with products, L aurent is not your typical child prodigy. He's into Instagram, for one. And as of Friday, he had more than 13, 000 followers. 但处在一个社交媒体具有一定威信力、网络红人通过出镜拍摄商品大赚笔的年代， 劳伦特和你印象中的那种典型的神童不同。举个例子，他热爱Instagram。截至周五，他的账号已拥有了超过13000个关注者。 On Laurent's Instagram account, a photo shows him sitting in front of a television crew. The caption, Busy Week With Interviews!!" The hashtags #laurentsimons and #giganticplans followed. 在劳伦特的Instagram账号上，张照片显示他坐在一群电视节目的工作人员前面。配文是“忙着接受采访的一周!!”，后面附上了话题标签#劳伦特.西蒙斯和#宏伟计划。 Laurent studies electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He entered when he was 8 and is set to complete a three-year program in 10 months. 劳伦特在荷兰的埃因霍芬理工大学攻读电气工程专业。他八岁时入学，且准备在十个月内完成一个为期三年的项目。 If all goes well and he completes his final project -about a brain-connected electrical chip - he will walk out a graduate in December. 如果一切顺利并且劳伦特能完成自己的毕业设计(关于一个与大脑连接的电气芯片)，他将在12月份走出校园，届时他已经是毕业生了。 “Then, I want to study medicine, and do a Ph.D. and make artificial organs,”he said. 他说:“接下来，我想学习医学，然后攻读博士学位并做出人造器官。 L aurent explained why he wanted to create artificial hearts in the future. The grandparents he grew up with have heart conditions.“ I'd like to help people like them,”he said. 劳伦特解释了他以后想发明人造心脏的原因:他从小-起生活的爷爷奶奶有心脏疾病。劳伦特说:“我想帮助像他们这样的人。” |
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