梅策尼希说这有点儿像网球教练在夏季训练课程中以越来越快的速度向你投球，让你不断受到挑战。
It's a bit like a tennis instructor, says Merzenich, shooting balls at you faster and faster over the course of the summer to keep you challenged.
要摆脱科希策外省小城的形象还真不太容易。
Attempts to shed Kosice's provincial image have not come easily.
加州大学旧金山分校的神经学家迈克尔•梅策尼希博士说：“人的大脑就是一部学习机器。”
“Your brain is a learning machine, ” says Michael Merzenich, PhD, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco.
马克.科拉切克是“科希策2013项目”的主管人，这个项目的任务是希望通过游说，把科希策命名为欧洲的文化中心。
“We want to be an incubator for young artists, ” said Marek Kolarcik, project manager of Kosice 2013, a public task force lobbying to have the city named a European Capital of Culture.
得益于它座落在哈布斯堡王朝边界的地理位置，科希策同时具有匈牙利人和斯拉夫人的渊源。
Thanks to its location along the border of the Hapsburg Empire, Kosice has Slavic as well as Magyar roots.
“我并不总是很懂市场”，赫希洪博物馆的副馆长和首席策展人克里·布罗说，“但是克莱因在艺术史上的位置是不会消失的。”
"I don't always understand the market," says Kerry Brougher, the deputy director and chief curator of the Hirshhorn, "but Klein has a position in art history that isn't going away."
他们花巨资买进的球员包括德国国家队队长的托马斯·希策尔斯佩格，弗雷德里克·皮奎翁内和巴勃罗·巴雷拉。
They bankrolled the signings of players including Germany captain Thomas Hitzlsperger, Frederic Piquionne and Pablo Barrera.
就拿64岁的梅策尼希来说，他就有“4000个业余爱好，”包括一个木工作坊和一个葡萄园。
For his part, Merzenich, 64, has "4, 000 hobbies," including a wood shop and a vineyard.
几十年了，这个斯洛伐克东部居住着二十五万人口的科希策市，如果还有人能想得起来，也不过是个死水一潭的工业城市。
For decades, Kosice, a city of 250, 000 in eastern Slovakia, was considered an industrial backwater — if it was considered at all.
几十年了，这个斯洛伐克东部居住着二十五万人口的科希策市，如果还有人能想得起来，也不过是个死水一潭的工业城市。
For decades, Kosice, a city of 250, 000 in eastern Slovakia, was considered an industrial backwater — if it was considered at all.
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