2. 傳奇吉他手、天體物理博士布萊恩?梅（Brian May）

生于1947年的布萊恩?梅是英國(guó)著名搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì)皇后樂(lè)隊(duì)的主音吉他手。

The legendary guitarist and founding member of Queen just didn’t find being a rock star was enough for him. So he instead got a doctorate in astrophysics at Imperial College. He was actually going for his degree before going into music, but stopped once the band gained so much success.

成為一名搖滾明星對(duì)這位傳奇吉他手和皇后樂(lè)隊(duì)的創(chuàng)始成員來(lái)說(shuō)還遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠。于是他去英國(guó)帝國(guó)理工學(xué)院拿了個(gè)天體物理學(xué)博士學(xué)位。其實(shí)在進(jìn)入音樂(lè)圈之前，他就在攻讀學(xué)位，但沒(méi)想到樂(lè)隊(duì)能取得這么大的成功，學(xué)業(yè)就暫時(shí)擱置了。

legendary['led?(?)nd(?)r?]：adj.傳說(shuō)的，傳奇的

Years later he went back and finished in two years in 2007. It took 37 years for his thesis on zodiacal dust to be approved, according to Imperial College.

若干年后他又重返校園，并用兩年的時(shí)間，在2007年完成了學(xué)業(yè)。根據(jù)帝國(guó)理工學(xué)院的信息顯示，他那篇關(guān)于黃道塵埃云的論文花了37年才過(guò)審。

在拿到天體物理學(xué)博士學(xué)位后，布萊恩又被選為利物浦約翰摩爾斯大學(xué)的名譽(yù)校長(zhǎng)。當(dāng)選理由是：在這個(gè)浮躁的年代里，沒(méi)有哪個(gè)人能像他這樣，如此的聲名遠(yuǎn)揚(yáng)，如此的家財(cái)萬(wàn)貫，如此的受萬(wàn)人追捧，卻又如此的保持著自己求知的可貴本性。