门捷列夫出现了，化学元素整理混乱的局面的到改变了，而这一切并非是偶然。干打铁的石头知道，要加工一条甘蔗粗细的规则圆柱也需要一台落地摆放的大车床。而造就一个科学巨人，则是需要家人，时代，还有科学研究事业共同作用。门捷列夫的母亲成为了这一切的第一个因素，她的奉献让我想起了罗永浩的话是正确的，甚至老罗说得还有点保守，他说：“哪怕这辈子没发大财，没出大名，我们把老婆孩子带好了，也让这世界变得又美好了一点点！”~~~

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Despite the occasional tidyings-up, chemistry by the second half of the 19th century was in something of a mess, which is why everybody [-1-] prominence in 1869 of an [-2-] and crazed-looking professor at the University of St. Petersburg named Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev.

Mendeleyev (also sometimes spelled Mendeleev or Mendeléef) was born in 1834 at Tobolsk, in the far west of Siberia, into a well-educated, reasonably [-3-], and very large family—[---4---]: some sources say there were 14 children, some say 17. All agree, at any rate, that Dmitri was the youngest. Luck was not always with the Mendeleyevs. [---5---] Clearly an extraordinary woman, she eventually became the manager of a successful glass factory. [---6---] Determined to get her youngest child an education, the indomitable Mrs. Mendeleyev hitchhiked with young Dmitri four thousand miles to St. Petersburg—that's equivalent to traveling from London to Equatorial Guinea—and [-7-] him at the Institute of Pedagogy. [---8---]



was so pleased by the rise to odd prosperous so large, in fact, that history has lost track of exactly how many Mendeleyevs there were When Dmitri was small his father, the headmaster of a local school, went blind and his mother had to go out to work. All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury. deposited Worn out by her efforts, she died soon after.
尽管偶尔有人整理一番，直到19世纪末叶，化学在一定程度上仍处于混乱状态。因此，当俄罗斯圣彼得堡大学的一位模样古怪而又不修边幅的教授跻身于显赫地位的时候，人人都感到很高兴。那位教授的名字叫德米特里•伊凡诺维奇•门捷列夫。 1834年，在遥远的俄罗斯西伯利亚西部的托博尔斯克，门捷列夫生于一个受过良好教育的、比较富裕的大家庭。这个家庭如此之大，史书上已经搞不清究竟有多少个姓门捷列夫的人：有的资料说是有14个孩子，有的说是17个。不过，反正大家都认为德米特里是其中最小的一个。门捷列夫一家并不总是福星高照。德米特里很小的时候，他的父亲--当地一所小学的校长--就双目失明，母亲不得不出门工作。她无疑是一位杰出的女性，最后成为一家很成功的玻璃厂的经理。一切都很顺利，直到1848年一场大火把工厂烧为灰烬，一家人陷于贫困。坚强的门捷列夫太太决心要让自己的小儿子接受教育，带着小德米特里搭便车跋涉6000多公里(相当于伦敦到赤道几内亚的距离)来到圣彼得堡把他送进教育学院。她筋疲力尽，过不多久就死了。