英语小故事412（抄书练字英语奇闻趣事23）

英语小故事412（抄书练字英语奇闻趣事23）But his best-known remarks had nothing to do with science. He was the man who said that if Cleopatra's nose had been differently shaped - aquiline for instance - or if Cromwell's bladder had not been obstructed and he had lived longer the history of the world would have been altered.17世纪的法国数学家、物理学家、哲学家和文体家布莱兹·帕斯卡未成年时就造出了一台计算机和计算尺，他奠定了现代概率论的基础，发明了以他的名字命名的数字三角形，发现了旋轮线的特性，发展了微积分运算。When he w

关于帕斯卡，印象里只有压强单位是由他的名字而来。

看过这个才知道原来他是个天才，还这么有趣——

来自法国货币的帕斯卡肖像，图片来自网络

When he was a child Blaise pascal once locked himself in his room for several days and would not allow anyone to enter. When he emerged he had figured out all of Euclid's geometrical propositions totally on his own.

布莱兹·帕斯卡小时候有一次把自己关在房间里好几天，不许任何人进去。等他从房间出来时，他独自相处了欧几里得几何的所有定理。

The seventeenth-century French mathematician physicist philosopher and stylist Blaise Pascal built a calculating machine and a slide rule in his childhood laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities invented the mathematical triangle that bears his name discovered the properties of the cycloid and advanced differential calculus.

17世纪的法国数学家、物理学家、哲学家和文体家布莱兹·帕斯卡未成年时就造出了一台计算机和计算尺，他奠定了现代概率论的基础，发明了以他的名字命名的数字三角形，发现了旋轮线的特性，发展了微积分运算。

But his best-known remarks had nothing to do with science. He was the man who said that if Cleopatra's nose had been differently shaped - aquiline for instance - or if Cromwell's bladder had not been obstructed and he had lived longer the history of the world would have been altered.

可是他最有名的话却与科学无关。是他说过，如果克娄巴特拉的鼻子换一个形状——比如鹰钩鼻——或者如果克伦威尔的膀胱没有阻塞而活得更长的话，世界历史将会完全不一样。

帕斯卡发明的机械计算器，图片来自网络

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