[彭蒙惠英语] 一位发掘史事真相的史学家(2/2)
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A Historian Who Finds the Facts
A love for research and writing
Totorow has five books he is researching and writing. When he thinks about it for a moment, he adds two more projects to the list.
“I write primarily for selfish reasons. I have fun doing it. I am absolutely carried away by the stories and the details,” he said. “To me, the sales are .”
How he got to where he is
Born in Indiana during the Great Depression, Tutorow saw his father work as a laborer, tenant farmer and car mechanic. Though he had a knack for grammar, Tutorow gave little indication he would land in academia. “I was like any farm kid—your primary thought is how to get off the farm,” he said.
In 1952, at age 18, he joined the Marines. When he got out, Tutorow pursued a philosophy degree at what is now San Diego State University. He also earned degrees in history, Spanish and German and received his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1968 in American and military history.
Armed with all those degrees, Tutorow decided on a nontraditional path for an academic—he wanted to make money without necessarily teaching. He got his in 1970 and started selling investment properties. On the side, he was working on history books. “The only reason I ever wanted money was it allowed me to do what I wanted to do,” he said.
Proving the truth
“I’m obsessed with being right,” he said. “When I started researching the Stanford book [his biography of Leland Stanford, eighth governor of California], I discovered a lot of the things I was reading were false.
“The reason we had 5,300 footnotes is because if you are contradicting something that has been considered fact for 100 years, you have to have some proof to justify it,” Tutorow said.
Vocabulary Focus
amass(v)--- to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period
tenacious (adj)--- keeping the determination to continue what you are doing
retirement community (n phr)--- a planned community designed primarily for those who have reached a certain age and no longer work
have a knack for (something) (idiom)--- to have a skill or an ability to do something easily and well
academia (n)--- the part of society, especially universities, that is connected with studying and thinking, or the activity or job of studying
arm with (phr. v)--- to provide with equipment or knowledge in order to complete a particular task
on the side (idiom)--- in addition to your main job
Specialized terms
rough draft (n. phr)--- 草稿 an early version of a written work that comes before the final form
Great Depression (n. phr)--- 经济大萧条 a period in the 1930s when there was a drastic economic decline in the United States, causing mass unemployment and poverty
tenant farmer (n. phr)--- 佃农 someone who works land that belong to someone else and usually pays his rent with crops
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