【美国故事】钻石镜头 上(2/7)

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Hints:This city was far away from my family, so I could spend my time as I pleased. As long as I paid my medical school fees every year, my family would never know I wasn't attending any classes. In New York, I would be able to buy excellent microscopes and meet scientists from all over the world. I would have plenty of money and plenty of time to spend on my dream. I left home with high hopes.
Two days after I arrived in New York, I found a place to live. It was large enough for me to use one of the rooms as my laboratory. I filled this room with expensive scientific equipment that I did not know how to use. But by the end of my first year in the city, I had become an expert with the microscope. I also had become more and more unhappy.
The lens in my expensive microscope was still not strong enough to answer my questions about life. I imagined there were still secrets in Nature that the limited power of my equipment prevented me from knowing.
I lay awake nights, wishing to find the perfect lens, an instrument of great magnifying power. Such a lens would permit me to see life in the smallest parts of its development. I was sure that a powerful lens like that could be built. And I spent my second year in New York trying to create it.这个城市离我家很远，所以我可以自己安排时间做喜欢的事情。只要我每年都交给学校学费，我父母永远不会知道我没有上过任何课。在纽约，我可以买到高科技的显微镜而且能见到来自全世界的科学家们。我将会有许多钱许多时间都花在我的梦想上。离家时我带着很高的期望。
我到纽约两天后找了一个住处。房子很大，足够让我拿出一间来做实验室，还买了连我自己都不知道怎么使用的昂贵的高科技设备。一年后，我成了显微镜专家，而且变得越来越不快乐。
我这台昂贵的显微镜的镜头还是不够强大，不能解释我对生命的一些问题。我想象大自然中一定还有很多秘密，都是这台能力有限的显微镜不能告诉我的。
每晚我躺在床上，期盼能有一个很棒的镜头，一个有超级放大率的仪器。一个能让我看到极小生命的镜头。我坚信那样一个镜头是可以被制造出来的。就这样我用第二年的时间试着去制造这样一个镜头。