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The majority had careers that could only be considered ordinary,
大部分人的生活只能说是平庸无奇，
and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures.
很多人的事业令人惊讶地草草收场，就连特曼都没有精力考虑他们为什么会失败。
Nor were there any Noble Prize winners in his exhaustively selected group of geniuses.
在他费尽心血挑选的天才当中，没有任何一个人获得诺贝尔奖。
His field works actually tested two future Noble laureates as elementary students
事实上，他的试验团队曾经对两名小学生进行过智力测试，
William Shockley and Luis Alvarez -and rejected them both.
There IQs weren't high enough.
但他们都被拒绝了，因为他们的智商不够高。
In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin showed
社会学家皮特里姆.索罗金全面批评了特曼的观点，
that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children
他认为如果特曼只是把具有相同家庭背景的孩子随机挑选出来
from the same kind of family backgrounds as the Termites, and dispensed with IQs altogether,
正如挑选“特曼人”那样——并且根据智商进行划分，
he would have ended up with a group doing almost as many impressive things as his painstakingly selected group of geniuses.
最后的结果必定像他辛辛苦苦挑选出的团队所做的那件令人印象深刻的事情一样告终。
"By no stretch of the imagination or of standard of genius," Sorokin concluded, "is the 'gifted group' as a whole 'gifted.'"
“这样做并不能扩展一个人的想象的空间和天赋的潜质，”索罗金认为，“这样是把一个‘天才团体’整合成了一个‘天才’。”
By the time Terman came out with his fourth volume of Genetic Studies of Genius, the word "genius" had all but vanished except for the title.
在特曼的《天才基因的研究》一书中，下定论的第四章几乎找不到“天才”的字眼,除了标题之外。
"We have seen," Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment,
“我们看到，”特曼以一种极端失望的笔调写道，
"that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated."
“智力和成就并没有完美地结合在一起。”
In other words, what I told you at the beginning of this chapter about the extraordinary intelligence of Christ Langan
换而言之，正像我在本章开始的部分告诉你的一样，我们并不能从克里斯.兰根过人的智商
is of little use if we want to understand his chances of being a success in the world.
那里去真正理解他在世界上取得成功的秘密。
Yes, he is a man with one-in-a-million mind and the ability to get through Principia Mathematica at sixteen.
是的，他是一个百里难挑一的人，他在16岁的时候就能通读《数学原理》；
Yes, his sentences come marching out one after another, polished and crisp like soldiers on a parade ground.
是的，他说起话来妙语连珠，一句紧接一句，犹如阅兵式上士兵的步调那样明快完美。
But so what, if we want to understand his chances of succeeding in the world, we have to know more about him than that.
但这就够了吗？如果我们真想了解他在世上如何发迹，就必须进一步走进他的生活。
Chapter four The Trouble with Geniuses Part II
第四章 天才的烦恼（第二部分）
