冈特鲍利是蓝色经济概念创始人,全心投入研究创新的蓝色经济模式,推广以无废弃、零污染、低成本的方式来解决环境问题,以求人类社会与自然生态皆能永续发展。他于1983年当选世界十大杰出青年,是生态工厂的先驱生态绿色组织(Ecover)的前主席,在欧洲建立了第一家生态工厂。1994年创办零排放研究创新基金会(Zero Emissions Research Initiatives,ZERI),致力于把生产过程重新设计成不污染环境的丛生工业(clustered industry)。
两名学生正在担心自己的考试。他们要求严 格的教授说了,如果谁能向他提出一个专业 领域内他答不出来的问题,就会在考试中得 到满分。 我觉得这是一句玩笑话。一名学生说。
Two students are worrying about their exams. Their tough professor proposed that those who could ask him a question about their subject field that he cannot answer properly will get full marks in the exam. I think this is a trick, says the one student.
不,不是!这是激励我们学得更好、学得 更多的一种方式。另一位学生答道。 但这是为什么呢? 因为,如果我们提出一个他答不出来的 问题,我们首先必须要学会他所知道的一 切。
No, its not! Its a way to challenge us to learn better and more, replies the other student. But why? Because if we want to ask him a question he has no clue about, we must first know everything he knows.
这就是说,要想得到满分,我们必须像他 一样学识渊博。算了吧!我们还是用心学习 他教过我们的那些东西吧! 对他来说,坐在那里听学生们一遍又一遍 地讲述他所知道的一切,那得是多么无趣的 一件事啊!
That means to get full marks, we must be as smart as he is. Forget it! Wed better learn everything hed taught us by heart. How boring it must be for him to sit there and listen to students telling him everything he already knows over and over again.