“我走了很远的路，

吃了很多的苦，

才将这份博士学位论文送到你的面前。

二十二载求学路，

一路风雨泥泞，

许多不容易。

如梦一场，

仿佛昨天一家人才团聚过

……”

近日，中国科学院自动化所一博士论文的《致谢》部分在网上引发热议，作者在《致谢》中回顾自己如何一路走出小山坳、和命运抗争的故事。

Recently, an acknowledgements section from a doctoral thesis has gone viral. The author reviewed his bumpy, challenging road to reach this point, which touched a large number of netizens.

"I have come a long way and endured a great deal of hardships to present this dissertation before you. During 22 years of study, the road has been a rainy and muddy one. It was not easy getting here," the author, Huang Guoping, of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote at the beginning of his thesis.

据澎湃新闻报道，这篇论文为《人机交互式机器翻译方法研究与实现》作者是2017年毕业于中国科学院大学的工学博士黄国平。

澎湃新闻查询公开资料发现，黄国平2014年进入中国科学院自动化研究所攻读博士研究生，成为该研究所研究员宗成庆的指导学生，其研究方向为模式识别与智能系统。

2017年从中国科学院大学毕业后，黄国平已赴腾讯就职，在该公司人工智能实验室“腾讯AI Lab”担任高级研究员。

After getting his doctorate in 2017, Huang went to work for Tencent, a leading enterprise in the internet industry, as a senior researcher in the company's AI Lab.

黄国平在上述博士学位论文的《致谢》中写道：

“出生在一个小山坳里，母亲在我十二岁时离家。父亲在家的日子不多，即便在我病得不能自己去医院的时候，也仅是留下勉强够治病的钱后又走了。我十七岁时，他因交通事故离世后，我哭得稀里糊涂，因为再得重病时没有谁来管我了。同年，和我住在一起的婆婆病故，真的无能为力。她照顾我十七年，下葬时却仅是一副薄薄的棺材。另一个家庭成员是老狗小花，为父亲和婆婆守过坟，后因我进城上高中而命不知何时何处所终。如兄长般的计算机启蒙老师邱浩没能看到我的大学录取通知书，对我照顾有加的师母也在不惑之前匆匆离开人世。每次回去看他们，这一座座坟莹都提示着生命的每一分钟都弥足珍贵。”

In the thesis, he mentioned he was born in a mountainous area and his mother left home at 12. His father died in a traffic accident when he was 17, and in the same year, his only remaining family member —  his grandmother — passed away.

"I cried so hard, because I knew if I get seriously ill, no one could take care of me."

“人情冷暖，生离死别，固然让人痛苦与无奈，而贫穷则可能让人失去希望。家徒四壁，在煤油灯下写作业或者读书都是晚上最开心的事。如果下雨，保留节目就是用竹笋壳塞瓦缝防漏雨。高中之前的主要经济来源是夜里抓黄鳝、周末钓鱼、养小猪崽和出租水牛。那些年里，方圆十公里的水田和小河都被我用脚测量过无数次。被狗和蛇追，半夜落水，因蓄电瓶进水而摸黑逃回家中；学费没交，黄鳝却被父亲偷卖了，然后买了肉和酒，都是难以避免的事。”他回忆道。

Living an utterly destitute life, he said before high school his major income was catching eels at night, fishing on weekends, raising piglets and renting buffalo.

"At that time, doing homework or reading books under the kerosene lamp was the most enjoyable part of the evening," he wrote.

除了生活中的贫困，还有精神上的刺激也让黄国平难以忘却：

“人后的苦尚且还能克服，人前的尊严却无比脆弱。上课的时候，因拖欠学费而经常被老师叫出教室约谈。雨天湿漉着上课，屁股后面说不定还是泥。夏天光着脚走在滚烫的路上。冬天穿着破旧衣服打着寒颤穿过那条长长的过道领作业本。这些都可能成为压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草。如果不是考试后常能从主席台领奖金，顺便能贴一墙奖状满足最后的虚荣心，我可能早已放弃。”

从炬光乡小学、大寅镇中学、仪陇县中学、绵阳市南山中学，到重庆的西南大学，再到中科院自动化所，“一直盼着走出大山”的黄国平已记不清有多少次因为现实的压力而觉得快扛不下去了，他的信念很简单：“把书念下去，然后走出去，不枉活一世”。

When he went to school, his teachers always talked to him privately because he couldn't afford tuition fees. He also added he might walk barefoot in summer and wear ragged clothes in winter.

"I might have given up if I hadn't been able to get scholarships and found motivation by pasting a wall of certificates of merit I earned," he said in the thesis.

After going to high school, where tuition and surcharges were exempted and his living expenses were subsidized by kind-hearted people, Huang claimed to have caught "the glimmer of mercy that fate gave him".

From middle school in a remote mountainous area to Southwest University in Chongqing, and finally pursuing his doctoral degree in University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the capital of China, he said "he couldn't remember how many times he had felt overwhelmed by the burdens of life."

"But my belief has been simple. I wanted to keep studying, and get out of the mountainous area. I think it could prove I haven't lived in vain."

《致谢》结尾，他写道：

“理想不伟大，只愿年过半百，归来仍是少年，希望还有机会重新认识这个世界，不辜负这一生吃过的苦。最后如果还能做出点让别人生活更美好的事，那这辈子就赚了。”

At the end of the acknowledgement, Huang expressed his wishes.

"I hope I can keep a young heart after years of fighting, I hope I have the chance to rediscover the world and live up to what I have suffered in my life. And I would feel it was all worthwhile if I could do something to make someone else's life better."