1·Alex Hoffmann is an American physicist who, like many in the past decade, has grown rich by turning away from pure scientific research to create ever more arcane financial instruments.
艾利克斯·霍夫曼是美国的一个物理学家，他跟过去这十年里的很多人一样，放弃了纯粹的科学研究，转而去创造更多神秘的金融工具。
2·Scientists now know a great deal about the genetic rules underlying these systems, but much of this knowledge stands on the shoulders of Beutler, Hoffmann and Steinman, the Nobel Assembly explains.
诺贝尔大会解释说：现在科学家对这些系统的遗传规律已经有比较深刻的认识，但这些认识都是建立在布鲁斯、霍夫曼和斯坦曼研究成果的基础上。
3·Although "it was not a great piece of work," he says, the topic was hot and the paper earned Hoffmann a finalist spot in the 1955 Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
尽管一霍夫曼的话说“这算不上什么大作”，但这一热门的主题和论文让他入围1955年举办的“西屋天才奖”决赛。
4·I also followed a course in quantum mechanics and performed my first computations with Roald Hoffmann.
我也上了一些量子力学的课程，并与罗阿尔德·霍夫曼一起完成了我的第一次计算。
5·Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann - "Gained merit in battle" reads the epitaph of two of the 231 eminent Shaolin monks honored with shrines in the Pagoda Forest.
弗里茨·霍夫曼摄- - -东方寺院的塔林圣地中有231个高僧的墓碑，其中两个墓碑上写道：“在战斗中学会慈悲”。