“我觉得你没有错,你正直而又善良,在这件事情上你考虑得很周全,Jasmine有你这样的带教老师是她的幸运,你不需要对她感到抱歉。你想答辩前或者答辩后去找Ed都好,但是Sheila, you have to calm down. 你和Ed吵架,对你没有好处,对Jasmine也没有,你不能因为你答辩完了就破罐子破摔。我还是希望你能保持冷静和他沟通,这样才能解决问题的根本。如果你决定答辩之后再去找Ed,那这些天你就多注意Jasmine的情绪,让她有问题及时找你沟通。你现在回实验室了,我猜Giana应该不敢再随意使唤Jasmine。”
“Sheila, how’s your family? They went back to China?(Sheila,你家人都回国了吗?)”
“Yes, I just said goodbye to them yesterday.(嗯,我昨天刚把他们总走。)”
“Do they enjoy their stay here?(他们在这里玩得开心吗?)”
“Yes, of course. Both my parents and Max’s parents have been here for several times, and they love this city a lot! My mom actually grew up in LA until she was 12 years old.(当然,我爸爸妈妈和Max的爸爸妈妈之前都来过好几次,他们都很喜欢这里。其实我妈妈实在LA长大的,一直到她十二岁才回国。)”
“Oh I see! Is Dr. Su or Dr. Shen actually your grandpa?(原来是这样。所以苏老先生和沈老先生之间有一位是你祖父?)”Ed这下明白了,怪不得尹书荷答辩那天会忽然出现两位医学泰斗,还是回国多年已经退休的泰斗。
“Dr. Su is my grandpa from my mom’s side. Dr. Shen is actually Max’s grandpa. I was so surprised that Max actually invited both of them.(苏教授是我外公,沈教授其实是Max的外公。我也很惊讶Max把他们都带来了。)”
“Oh wow! Sheila, that’s why you are so talented. This is inherited from your grandpa.(哇!怪不得你这么有天赋,这大概是遗传了你外公。)”
“So what are you going to do next?(所以你接下来打算做什么?)”
“I haven’t decided yet. I might take a break first.(我还没想好,不过我打算先休息一段时间。)”
“How long? Sheila, you have to keep your word, do not rest forever and become a housewife at the end.(你打算休息多久?Sheila,你得记住你今天说的话,休息好了就赶紧回来。你可不能休息休息就成了家庭主妇再也不回来了。)”Ed最担心的莫过于尹书荷为了段艺泽放弃她的事业。
“I know Max is wealthy. He’s one of the top artists on Forbes, and you’ll likely have a comfortable and decent life. Also, I’m not saying housewife is not good, but you have your own career and you will do great on your own stage.(我知道Max很富有,他是福布斯排行榜上有名的艺术家,他有能力让你过上衣食无忧的生活。我也不是说家庭主妇不好,但是你将来也会在你自己的领域大放异彩的。)”
“Ed, I’m not gonna stay at home all day. You know I can’t.(Ed,我不会天天待在家里的,你知道我待不住的。)”尹书荷被Ed一本正经的语气逗笑,这小老头总是暗搓搓地探她口风想要让她留在学术界,“I’m just thinking if I should do a post doc or directly go for a position. I’m still thinking of which direction, I mean research area, I should go.(我只是在考虑我是要先做博后还是直接去找教职。我还没想好我未来的研究方向。)”
听到尹书荷这样回答,Ed明显是放心了不少:“I guess you should be able to find a decent position, based on you beautiful cv. But if you wanna go to a top institution, you might wanna do a post doc first.(以你的简历,要想找一个合适的职位应该不难,不过如果你想进一些顶尖的研究所和高校,那可能的确需要先做博后。)”
“Stanford recently opened a faculty position. I actually wanna apply for that, not because I think I’m eligible, but just to have a try.(最近斯坦福大学医学院有在招教授,我其实想要去试试。)”
“Sure, I think you can. Let me know if I can help with anything.(去啊,如果有什么需要我帮忙就直接告诉我。)”
“Thank you! How’s Giana? Did she find any position?(谢谢你。Giana怎么样了?她有找到职位吗?)”尹书荷可一直都没有忘记Giana的事。今天是个难得的好机会,她早就默默打好了算盘。
“I don’t think so. Why?(应该没有吧。怎么忽然说起她?)”
“I actually have something to tell you, about her.(我其实有件事想要告诉你,关于Giana的。)”尹书荷低下头不去看Ed的表情,她其实大概知道Ed会有什么反应。
“Sh*t! What did she do to you?(她又对你说做什么了?)”Ed一听尹书荷的语气就感觉大事不妙,整个人都不好了。
“Not me, it’s Jasmine. Giana always ask Jasmine to help her on some trifles, washing the plates, turning on the equipment, cleaning the bench, looking for the samples…… All these are fine to me, but one thing drove me crazy was that she asked Jasmine to look for some samples in -80, at 10 pm by herself.(不是我,是Jasmine。Giana总是让Jasmine帮忙做一些琐碎小事,刷试管、开仪器、擦台子、找样品……这些也就算了,但是她居然在晚上十点让Jasmine一个人在实验室找样品。Ed,我对此很生气。)”
“Jasmine stayed up until 1 am that night and couldn’t find the samples. You know what Giana did? She asked Jasmine to look for the d*mn samples for another five hours and finally blamed on her because she couldn’t find them. Sorry for my words, but Ed, I’m very serious about that, and I’m very disappointed, not to mention Jasmine.(Jasmine一个人在实验室待到凌晨一点都没能找到Giana的样品,但你知道Giana怎么做的吗?她居然在第二天又让Jasmine花了五个小时找这该死的样品,最后居然还怪Jasmine干活不利。我很抱歉对您说脏话,但是Ed,我对这件事情非常不满,更不要说Jasmine了。)”
“Sheila, I’m really sorry for Jasmine. She should have let me know earlier.(Sheila,我对Jasmine的遭遇感到很抱歉,她应该早点告诉我的。)”
尹书荷心里白眼一翻,这事儿但凡不是她来说,Ed根本就不当一回事儿。
“Ed, you really cannot let this happen again. You know why there is no Swiss intern in the past few years?(Ed,你真的不能再这样了。你知道为什么这两年没有瑞士的本科生申请我们实验室了吗?)”Ed和ETH一直有合作,以往每年寒暑假申请来他们实验室实习的本科生都很多,不过近两年却几乎没有,导致Ed每年都要在本校额外招本科生帮忙做实验,“Nolwenn sent me messages every now and then to check if Giana is here. I know this is ridiculous, but I guess everyone in ETH knows that there is a Giana in Mistry Lab now.(Nolwenn经常给我发消息问Giana还在不在实验室,我猜现在ETH所有人都知道Mistry实验室有个叫Giana的博后很不好相处。)”Nolwenn是尹书荷前两年带的本科生,当时和她同期的Louisa不幸被分到Giana手下,到后来连实验室都不想来。
“I really don’t know what to do about her. I cannot kick her out, Sheila, I cannot do that. I can only wish her best of luck and wish her a bright future. But thank you for letting me know, I honestly feel really sorry about these kids, I know what I did to them was not right, I’ll try to make sure these thing not happen again in our lab.(我其实也不知道该拿她怎么办,我总不能直接把她踢出实验室吧?我只能祝她早日找到教职,自己离开实验室。谢谢你告诉我这些,我很抱歉这些孩子们要经历这样的事情,我也知道我的做法的确有失妥当,我会尽量注意不让这些事情再发生的。)”
话已至此,尹书荷也实在不知道说什么,这是她早就料到的结果不是吗?
“Ed, Jasmine is my student, and I hope she could focus on my project, even if I’m not in LA.(Ed,Jasmine是我的学生,即使我不在LA的时候,我也希望她能专注于我的项目。)”