芝加哥大学公布2020-2021年文书题目

　　Essay Option 1

　　Who does Sally sell her seashells to? How much wood can a woodchuck really chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Pick a favorite tongue twister (either originally in English or translated from another language) and consider a resolution to its conundrum using the method of your choice. Math, philosophy, linguistics... it's all up to you (or your woodchuck).

　　莎莉将贝壳卖给谁?如果一个土拨鼠可以夹住木头，那么一个土拨鼠可以夹住多少木头?(这两个都是英文的绕口令，主要依靠头韵来实现其效果，比如第二个绕口令就是五个“ w”声音穿插在五个“ ch”声音和6个“ ood”声音中)。

　　请选择你最喜欢的绕口令(英语绕口令或从由其他语言翻译而来均可)，并用你自己的方法给出答案，你可以从数学，哲学，语言学等等不同角度分析，使用什么方法一切取决于您(或你的土拨鼠)。

　　Essay Option 2

　　What can actually be divided by zero?

　　什么可以被0整除?

　　Essay Option 3

　　The seven liberal arts in antiquity consisted of the Quadrivium — astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and music — and the Trivium — rhetoric, grammar, and logic. Describe your own take on the Quadrivium or the Trivium. What do you think is essential for everyone to know?

　　古代的七门人文学科包括：四学科---天文学，数学，几何学和音乐，以及三学科---修辞学，修辞学，语法和逻辑学。描述您对四学科或者三学科的看法。您认为每个人都必须知道什么?

　　Essay Option 4

　　Subway maps, evolutionary trees, Lewis diagrams. Each of these schematics tells the relationships and stories of their component parts. Reimagine a map, diagram, or chart. If your work is largely or exclusively visual, please include a cartographer's key of at least 300 words to help us best understand your creation.

　　地铁图，进化树，路易斯点图像。这些示意图都讲述了其各个组成部分的关系和故事。请你重新构想一个地图，图表或图表。如果您的作品是视觉作品，作为制图师，请您请提供至少300个单词的解释，以帮助我们更好地了解您的创作。

　　Essay Option 5

　　"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" - Eleanor Roosevelt. Misattribute a famous quote and explore the implications of doing so.

　　“你感到幸运吗?混蛋?” ---埃莉诺·罗斯福。

　　这是电影Dirty Harry里面的一句经典台词。引用了一句名言，并探讨这样做的含义。

　　Essay Option 6

　　Engineer George de Mestral got frustrated with burrs stuck to his dog’s fur and applied the same mechanic to create Velcro. Scientist Percy Lebaron Spencer found a melted chocolate bar in his magnetron lab and discovered microwave cooking. Dye-works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly found his tablecloth clean after a kerosene lamp was knocked over on it, consequently shaping the future of dry cleaning. Describe a creative or interesting solution, and then find the problem that it solves.

　　工程师George de Mestral对狗的皮毛上粘有毛刺而感到沮丧，并采用了相同的方法制作了魔术贴。

　　科学家Percy Lebaron Spencer在他的磁控管实验室发现了一块融化的巧克力棒，因此发明了微波烹饪方法。

　　染厂的老板Jean Baptiste Jolly在用煤油灯敲打桌子后发现桌布很干净，因此塑造了干洗技术。

　　描述一个创造性的或有趣的解决方案，然后解释它可以解决的问题。

　　Essay Option 7

　　In the spirit of adventurous inquiry (and with the encouragement of one of our current students!) choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun!

　　本着冒险的精神(在我们在校生的鼓励下)，选择我们过去的提示之一(或提出您自己的问题)。具有原创性，创造力，发人深省。你可以是作家，思想家，畅想家，社会评论家，贤哲，世界公民或芝加哥大学未来公民;冒冒险，祝你玩得开心!

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