高中英语人教版高二下01

[12:14.72]Many of them did not accept his scientific ideas.
[12:20.78]But Einstein went on with his research.
[12:25.82]By 1919,scientists who had been watching the stars believed in his work
[12:34.18]and he quickly became world-famous.
[12:38.73]From that time on Einstein was greatly respected
[12:44.40]as the leading scientist of the century.
[12:49.36]The First World War (1914-1918) had brought him great sadness.
[12:58.50]He had taken Swiss nationality in 1901
[13:04.25]and therefore did not have to join the army,
[13:08.48]as Switzerland did not take sides in the war.
[13:13.63]Einstein thought that war was a terrible thing
[13:18.48]and believed that fighting and killing in wars was wrong.
[13:24.13]He did urge the United States to build an atomic bomb to defeat the Nazis,
[13:31.28]but when Einstein saw the effect of the bomb,he regretted his actions.
[13:38.26]What he wanted to see was an end to all the armies of the world.
[13:44.61]When Hitler came into power in the early 1930s, Einstein,
[13:51.58]who was a Jew,found it impossible to continue living in Germany.
[13:57.93]His friends were beaten, or taken away,or their homes were destroyed.
[14:04.77]While he was doing research in America,
[14:09.42]Einstein wrote a letter to a newspaper to say that these acts were wrong.
[14:16.50]It meant that he would never be able to visit Germany again.
[14:21.86]That is why Einstein and his family left Europe for the USA in 1933.