This holiday season, many of us will receive unexpected gifts. But Onora O’Neill, the British professor emeritus of philosophy at Cambridge University, has just collected a spectacular one: this week, in a swanky ceremony at the New York Public Library, she was awarded $1m for her contributions to philosophy by the Berggruen Institute, a research organisation based in Los Angeles and created by Nicolas Berggruen, the Paris-born philanthropist and investor.
这个圣诞假期,我们很多人都会收到意想不到的礼物。但英国剑桥大学(Cambridge University)名誉哲学教授奥诺拉•奥尼尔(Onora O'Neill)刚刚收获了一份大礼:上周,在纽约公共图书馆(New York Public Library)举行的一场隆重仪式上,她凭借自己在哲学上的贡献获得了博古睿研究院(Berggruen Institute)授予的100万美元奖金。博古睿研究院是一家位于洛杉矶的研究机构,由生于巴黎的慈善家、投资家尼古拉斯•博古睿(Nicolas Berggruen)创立。