Tsinghua University's top 10 excellent undergraduate students were selected with netizens saying they envy their high-quality resumes.
This year's Tsinghua University Special Scholarship (Undergraduate) — the highest honor of the top-notch university — was awarded to 10 students after 15 candidates completed their defenses on Nov 12.清華大學官網曬出這些候選人信息後，物理系小哥陳逸賢迅速吸引了網友的關注。
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網友們熱烈討論：「好像周杰倫」「像20世紀初的詩人，還以為是中文系的」「有小說裡的憂鬱氣質」……
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據介紹，陳逸賢在大一時就確認了天體物理作為自己的研究方向。在大二時，陳逸賢選擇了天文系研究生的專題研討課程。在這門對高年級博士生都充滿挑戰的課程上，陳逸賢做出了水平在全班數一數二的「磁轉動不穩定性」調研與綜述報告。在確定了行星科學領域方向後，陳逸賢師從美國藝術與科學院院士、高研院客座教授林潮繼續進行探索，被評價為「十餘年來在清北指導的最優秀的學生」。
「在未來，我將繼續從事天體物理的研究，為拓展人類的知識邊界作出自己的貢獻」是他結束答辯前立下的目標。
而這枚「文藝學霸」不光物理很厲害，英語也很強，是「21世紀杯」英語演講比賽的雙料冠軍！
早在2017年，陳逸賢在杭二中讀高三時，便參加了「21世紀杯」全國中小學生英語演講比賽，拿到高中組總冠軍。
2017年「21世紀杯」高中組舞臺上的陳逸賢
兩年後，他再次參加21世紀全國英語演講比賽，拿到了大學組總冠軍，並代表中國參加2019國際公眾演講比賽，獲得總決賽全球六強。
2019年陳逸賢在「21世紀杯」大學組總決賽演講臺上
陳逸賢在2019國際公眾演講比賽的演講臺上
回憶起自己與英語和英語演講的淵源，陳逸賢分享道：
陳逸賢還特別喜歡看科幻劇《神秘博士》，新版老版劇集刷了800集。受興趣驅使，他也在各類論壇上翻譯了不少劇集相關的書和字幕。
一起來聽陳逸賢在「21世紀杯」大學組總決賽中的奪冠演講吧：
A Glimpse into the Future
Do you know people who post pictures of themselves almost every day? Snap! Look at my new watch. Snap! Westlake in spring. Snap! Here’s me middle of a speech competition. From streets to campuses, people are obsessed with taking photos of themselves. But when photography was first introduced to China in the 19th century, it traumatized a generation. With the drawtube shaped like a cannon, the dazzling firework at exposure, like that, and most horrifying of all, the bizarre feeling of your own face staring back at yourself in a piece of paper. 「Witchcraft,」 They say. 「An evil ritual taking away our spirits!」
As the development of technology moves the wheel of history forward, it was always accompanied by fear. Judging in retrospect from an era of selfie craze, of course we would want to tell those benighted people of the past: Fear not! Your souls won’t be sucked into a camera! This, is exactly what I would like to tell people of the present: Fear not! Because when technology revolutionizes our lives, humanity frames our action.
Look at our world now, the debate between scientists and humanists never seem to set our minds at rest. When scientists are bragging about generalizing 5G 6G, the humanists say, you are providing easier ways to infringe on personal privacy; When scientists brag AI as human’s ultimate assistant, the sci-fi writers say, beware that they develop consciousness of their own!
Once I, a self-proclaimed physicist, talked to my pals from the school of humanities about teleportation, I said, 「Theoretically we can transport anything from here to there instantly by breaking up the stuff here and reconstructing an identical one there.」 But I was instantly bombarded with: 「Oh, soon you will be transporting people in this way, won’t you? But will one be the same person after teleport? Will my consciousness be instantly terminated upon disintegration here, leaving only a duplicate of me to be reconstructed there?」 So innocent bystanders, upon hearing these fantastic debates, panic. Oh no! The geeks are going to read our mails! Robots are going to take over the earth! Teleportation is going to destroy thousands of people every day, leaving a world full of clones!
But none of this is actually going to happen, because humanists are not alarmists and scientists are not geeks. Humanists point out pertinent ethical issues with the hope of correcting them and scientists listen to suggestions rationally to make adjustments as well as amendments. Just like the first pioneer who modified the camera to make it less scary, we can always improve technology with humanitarian and care. We can enhance the security of networks by introducing quantum cryptography. We can put restrictions on AI to prevent rogue elements. As for teleportation, maybe it’s too risky to transport humans, but it can still relieve a considerable burden off Beijing traffic by taking care of the delivery system!
So, taking a glimpse into the future, what exactly do I see? Not the AI-reigned Dystopia where humans are reduced to slaves, not the post-apocalypse desert after a science breakdown, but a future where humanity thrive with technology as instrument of progress, and technology thrive with humanity as its code of conduct. Just like how we mock at the 19th century people for being fearful in front of a camera, our future generations will also be wondering why we had feared some of their daily routines in the first place, as they reach ever higher dimensions and roam across the stars.
編輯：左卓 焦潔
來源：21世紀英文報 「清華大學」微信公眾號 「21世紀杯英語演講比賽」微信公眾號 China Daily
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