标题: Interview With Khan Academy Founder [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-28-2014 09:21 标题: Interview With Khan Academy Founder Claudia Dreifus, It All Started With a 12-Year-Old Cousin; A conversation with SALMAN KHAN. New York Times, Jan 28, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/scien ... o-khan-academy.html
Excerpt in the window of print: “We’re more like a highly enriched, personalized textbook, a tool for you on your own or your teacher or tutor.” (quotation marks original)
Note:
(a) Claudia Dreifus
(i) The given name Claudia (for women) and Claudio (for men) is “vernacular forms of Latin Claudius, a Roman family name derived from [adjective masculine] claudus ‘lame’” (whose Latin adjective feminine is clauda, adjective neuter claudum).
(ii)
(A) The Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname Dreyfus--Dreyfuss being a variant--referred to a person from Treves, "an old [and French] name[, which was adopted into modern English] of the [German] city of Trier on the Mosel [river], known in French as Trèves; both the French and German names come from Latin Augusta Treverorum ‘city of Augustus among the Treveri,’ a Celtic tribal name of uncertain origin. The form of the surname has been altered from Trevis by folk etymological association with modern German [noun masculine; German spelling: dreifuß] dreifuss ‘tripod.’"
(B) Trier
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier
(German spelling; It may be the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC (contested with Worms, Kempten, and Cologne); Karl Marx was born in the city in 1818 [apparently transliterated as 特里尔 in PRC; Marx is a pariah in Taiwan, whose biography is neglected there])
section 1 History: founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince; In historical time, the Roman Empire subdued the [tribe] Treveri in the 1st century BC and established Augusta Treverorum (Lit[erally]: August (Regal, noble) [City] of the Treveri) in 30 BC; The image of "Trebeta" became an icon of the city during the Middle Ages; French claimed Trier in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars [first and only French possession]; After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, Trier passed to the Kingdom of Prussia [in German hand ever since]
(b)
(i) For Ann Doerr, see John Doerr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr
(1951- ; an American venture capitalist; As of March 2013, Forbes ranked Doerr as the 527th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $2.7 billion; is married to Ann Howland Doerr)
(ii) The German surnames Doerr (German: Dörr, being a variant of another German surname Dürr): “from Middle High German dürre ‘thin’, ‘gaunt’, ‘dry’”
(4) "Nadia is now a pre-med and writing major senior at Sarah Lawrence."
(i) Nadia "is the Ukrainian word for 'hope.'" Wikipedia
(ii) Sarah Lawrence College
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lawrence_College
(private; located in Yonkers, New York; established [in 1926] by real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence [1842-1927; father Robert D Lawrence, mother Catherine Van Duzer (of Dutch heritage)]
, 1842-1927, on the grounds of his estate and was named in honor of his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence, 1846-1926)