默默无闻的图书管理员 去世时的遗嘱震惊世界

 　　A quiet librarian toiled¹ away for nearly 50 years at the University of New Hampshire's Dimond Library, and passed away last year. His parting gift: the fruits of his labor², totaling $4 million, the school says.

　　一位默默无闻的图书管理员去年去世了，生前他曾在新罕布什尔大学的钻石图书馆辛勤耕耘了近50年。校方宣称，他的临别赠礼是他总计400万美元的劳动报酬。

　　Robert Morin, who graduated in the early 1960s, worked as a cataloger at the library and died last year, the school announced last week.

　　学校上周宣布，罗伯特·莫林毕业于20世纪60年代初，作为在图书馆工作的编目员，已于去年去世。

　　默默无闻的图书管理员 去世时的遗嘱震惊世界

　　Millions he left behind will go to building a career center for students and alumni, and another million will go toward a video scoreboard for UNH's new football stadium — the school said he took to watching UNH games in the last year of his life. But $100,000 was earmarked for the library Morin worked at for so long, contributing to work-study student scholarships and more at the library.

　　他留下的百万遗产要为学生和校友建立一个就业中心，另100万将用于建设新罕布什尔大学新足球场的视频记分板。但10万美元专款（将）用于莫林工作了长时间的图书馆、以及勤工助学的学金、还有图书馆的其他方面。

　　Born in Nashua, he graduated in 1961 and worked at the library from 1965 to 2014.

　　出生在纳舒厄的罗伯特于1961年毕业，从1965年到2014年于图书馆工作。

　　"He never went out," his financial adviser³, Edward Mullen told the newspaper. He ate frozen⁴ dinners instead of going out for food, and gave his estate to the school because he had no relatives.

　　“他从不外出，”他的财务顾问爱德华·马伦告诉记者。他从不出去觅食，而是只吃冷冻食品，并将他的财产交给了到学校，因为他没有亲戚。

1 toiled   

长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 )； 艰难缓慢地移动，跋涉

参考例句：

• They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun. 他们冒着炎炎烈日艰难地一步一步爬上山冈。
• He toiled all day long but earned very little. 他整天劳碌但挣得很少。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

4 frozen   

adj.冻结的，冰冻的

参考例句：

• He was frozen to death on a snowing night.在一个风雪的晚上，他被冻死了。
• The weather is cold and the ground is frozen.天寒地冻。