Midway up the slope, I staggered to a halt, gasping in the rarefied air, well before I reached the heights where the equations of Einstein and Dirac would have made sense.

• 然而，在远远还未能达到爱因斯坦和迪拉克那样的高度的半山腰我就步履蹒跚，止步不前，在稀薄的空气里气喘吁吁。