An Ivy League professor aboard an American Airlines flight was questioned after a passenger mistook a math equation for Arabic and possible Islamic code for a terrorist attack.
一位常春藤名校的教授在乘坐美國航空的航班時，有乘客誤把他寫的數學公式當成阿拉伯文和恐怖襲擊的伊斯蘭組織代碼，導致他本人不得不接受盤問。

Guido Menzio, an economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was working on a differential math equation as the Syracuse-bound plane was preparing to take off from Philadelphia.
這位教授名叫吉多·門齊奧，是賓夕法尼亞大學的經濟學教授，他搭乘的這趟飛機計劃從費城飛往錫拉丘茲，飛機起飛前，他正在演算一道微積分算式。

The 41-minute flight was delayed by two hours as the olive-skinned, curly, dark-haired native Italian was questioned.
由于這位黑卷發、橄欖色皮膚的意大利裔教授受到盤問，導致僅有41分鐘航程的航班推遲起飛兩小時。

A blond-haired woman wearing flip-flops and appearing to be in her 30s had passed a note to a flight attendant. American Airlines flight 3950 returned to the gate at Philadelphia International Airport and was met by what he described as an "FBI-looking man in black."
就因為一位30多歲、穿人字拖的金發女性給空乘傳了一張紙條，這架美國航空3950航班不得不回到費城國際機場的登機口處，接受一位“貌似來自聯邦調查局的黑衣人（據門齊奧說）”的檢查。

He learned the woman thought he was a terrorist.
門齊奧這才了解到，原來那位女性懷疑他是恐怖分子。

After realizing he was only doing math, the flight took off minus the complaining passenger. The woman boarded a later flight for Syracuse. Menzio boarded the original flight again.
得知他只是在做數學題后，飛機留下那位女乘客后起飛了。該女子轉而搭乘了隨后一架飛往錫拉丘茲的客機。門齊奧則搭乘原來那架班機。

Menzio has been a member of Penn's faculty since 2005 after getting his Ph.D from Northwestern University. Last year, he was awarded the prestigious Carlo Alberto Medal as the best Italian economist under 40.
門齊奧在美國西北大學取得博士學位，2005年起在賓大擔任教職。2015年，他獲得了著名的卡洛·阿爾貝托獎，成為40歲以下最優秀的意大利經濟學家。

Menzio was headed to Syracuse to Ontario to speak at Queen's University at a macroeconomics workshop.
門齊奧抵達錫拉丘茲后會繼續飛往安大略，將參加在加拿大皇后大學舉辦的一場宏觀經濟學研討會，并發表演講。

In a deleted Facebook post, Menzio wrote: "The lady just looked at me, looked at my writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good. Because of that an entire flight was delayed. . . . Trump's America is already here. It's not yet in power though."
門齊奧在自己的臉書帖子中稱：“那位女士看著我，以及我那些神秘的公式，然后意識到我不是好人。整個航班的人因此被延誤起飛……特朗普式的美國估計就會是這樣的吧。雖然他還沒開始掌權。”不過，該帖隨后被刪除。

American Airlines confirmed the woman had raised suspicions about Menzio.
美國航空證實了有位女士懷疑門齊奧是壞人。

A spokesman for American Airlines, said the woman initially told the crew she was sick.
美國航空一位發言人稱，該女士最初告訴空乘的是，她感到不舒服。

Vocabulary
differential：微分的
macroeconomics：宏觀經濟學

英文來源：(美國)合眾國際社
編譯：杜娟