Theodore Holmes Bullock was to become a founding father of that interdisciplinary science combining neuroscience and ethology into Neuroethology. As a child, he had also once had Sun Yat-sen himself as a guest in his home.
西奥多·霍姆斯·布洛克成为跨学科科学的创始人，将神经科学和民族学结合到神经伦理学中。 小时候，他家里也曾接待过孙中山本人作为客人。
Born in Nanjing on 16 May, 1915, Bullock was second of four children to Presbyterian missionary parents, Amasa Archibald Bullock and Ruth Beckwith. Returning to his parents home in the USA, a cousin got him interested in shell collecting. This was to be his calling.
布洛克于1915年5月16日出生在南京，是长老会传教士父母阿玛萨·阿奇博尔德·布洛克和露丝·贝克威斯的四个孩子中的第二个。 回到他在美国的父母家，一个表弟让他对收集贝壳产生了兴趣。 这是他的使命。
A celebrated neuroscientist, amongst Bullock’s work across all major animal groups was that on Crotalinae, which led to the discovery of the snake’s thermal imaging capabilities via their pit organs.
一位著名的神经科学家，布洛克在所有主要动物群体中的工作是关于Crotalinae的工作，这导致通过蛇的坑器官发现了蛇的热成像能力。
But for us, this Great Nanjinger is of interest for the time he and his family spent in various parts of China. Writing in his autobiography, Bullock explains that his parents had come to China in 1909.
但對我們來說，這位偉大的南京人對他和他的家人在中國各地度過的時光很感興趣。 布洛克在他的自传中解释说，他的父母于1909年来到中国。
It was their honeymoon, a seemingly odd choice explained by the fact Bullock’s father had a few years prior spent a year in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, teaching chemistry, which had been his major as a student at University of California, Berkeley.
这是他们的蜜月，布洛克的父亲几年前在四川省会成都呆了一年，教化学，这是他作为加州大学伯克利分校学生时的专业，这解释了一个看似奇怪的选择。
Bullock writes that there, his father, “fell in love with the people, their eagerness to listen, and their respect for learning”.
布洛克写道，在那里，他的父亲“爱上了人们，他们渴望倾听，以及他们对学习的尊重”。
This fired up the young Amasa, to the extent that he started to see China’s experimenting with western-style education as his niche, especially teacher training.
这激怒了年轻的Amasa，以至于他开始将中国对西式教育的实验视为他的利基，尤其是教师培训。
Therefore, with his time in Chengdu at an end, he returned to the USA, to Chicago where he took a master’s degree in education. This was to pave the pay for his life’s turning point and many more trips to China.
因此，随着他在成都的时光的结束，他回到了美国，回到了芝加哥，在那裡他获得了教育硕士学位。 这是为了为他人生的转折点和更多的中国旅行铺平工资。
Undertaking advanced work in psychology at Columbia with esteemed American psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike, Amasa had a roommate with a sister readying herself to be a missionary with the Hartford Theological Seminary.
Amasa在哥伦比亚大学与受人尊敬的美国心理学家Edward Lee Thorndike一起从事心理学方面的高级工作，她有一个室友和一个准备成为哈特福德神学院传教士的妹妹。
Nature took its course and before long the new couple were back in China, where Amasa joined the faculty of Liangjiang Normal College, now Nanjing University, to assist with the formation of its teacher-training school. It was during this time that the family home was visited by Sun Yat-sen.
大自然走了，不久，这对新夫妇回到了中国，在那里，Amasa加入了梁江师范学院（现在的南京大学）的教师培训学校的组建。 正是在这段时间里，孙中山拜访了全家。
Bullock writes that most of his childhood memories were centred on their latter home in Wuchang, one of the three cities which were merged to become today’s Wuhan.
布洛克写道，他童年的大部分记忆都集中在他们后来在武昌的家，武昌是合并成为今天的武汉的三个城市之一。
Returning to Wuhan in 1980, Bullock was delighted to successfully find the old family home, and that it had been turned into a preschool.
1980年回到武汉，布洛克很高兴成功地找到了老家，它已经被变成了一所幼儿园。
Long before that though, the Bullock family had made many return trips to the USA.
然而，在此之前很久，布洛克家族就多次返回美国。
Christmas of 1926 was spent in the home of Bullock’s cousin, Mary Beckwith, and this was the point of no return. Having ignited his interest in anthropology, Bullock writes, “Back in central China I continued to collect freshwater and terrestrial shells in kitchen middens and on ivy-covered walls.
1926年的圣诞节是在布洛克的表妹玛丽·贝克威斯的家里度过的，这是不归还的点。 在激发了他对人类学的兴趣后，布洛克写道：“回到中国中部，我继续在厨房的中间和常春藤覆盖的墙壁上收集淡水和陆地贝壳。
“To identify my prizes I took them to the museum in the British Concession in Shanghai.”
“为了确定我的奖品，我把它们带到了上海英国特许权博物馆。”
The rest, as they say…. Bullock fathered two children with Martha Runquist, who remained his wife for 68 years, until this Great Nanjinger passed away on 20 December, 2005.
其余的，正如他们所说…… 布洛克与玛莎·伦奎斯特生了两个孩子，玛莎·伦奎斯特是他的妻子68年，直到这位伟大的南京人于2005年12月20日去世。
