THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET( short 45/50 )
My guest tonight has dominated this week's headlines. He is to science what Mozart is to music. T.S. Spivet, just ten years old, and he had sprinted ahead of legions of scientists to win this year's coveted Baird Award.
T.S., you're ten years old, You're an orphan, you grew upon a remote ranch in Montana, your dad wanted you to be a cowboy. Am I right so far?
Yes. Coppertop Ranch, 4.73 miles north of the Divide, 14.92 miles ...
Tell me T.S., How does a ten years old win the Baird Award? It actually already existed. But, we needed to invented was a system to ... At an age when most ten year olds are climbing trees, what do you do for fun? Trigonometry?
I like climbing trees.
OK.You've been conducting scientific experiments since the age of four.Last year, one of those went tragically wrong and resulted in the death of your twin brother, Layton.
重点
grab the headlines/hit the headlines/make the headlines/to be an important item of news in newspapers or on the radio or television
sprint
He sprinted for the line.
Three runners sprinted past.
legions of
legions of photographers
covet
He had long coveted the chance to work with a famous musician.
remote from sth/far away from places where other people live
a remote beach
one of the remotest areas of the world
