Recently, an acknowledgements section from a doctoral thesis has gone viral.
近日，中国科学院一博士论文的致谢部分爆红刷屏。

The author reviewed his bumpy, challenging road to reach this point, which touched a large number of netizens.
作者叫黄国平，他回顾了自己坎坷艰难的求学路，文字令许多网友动容。

"I have come a long way and endured a great deal of hardships to present this dissertation before you," the author, Huang Guoping, wrote at the beginning of his thesis for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
作者开篇写道："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。"

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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.
黄国平提到，自己出生在一个小山坳里，母亲在他十二岁时离家，父亲在他十七岁时因交通事故离世。

After going from a middle school in a remote mountainous area to Southwest University in Chongqing, and finally pursuing his doctoral degree in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he said "he couldn't remember how many times he had felt overwhelmed by the burdens of life." "But my belief was simple. I wanted to keep studying, get out of the mountainous area, and prove I haven't lived in vain."
从小山坳的中学，到重庆的西南大学，再到北京的中科院自动化所，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"，但他的信念很简单："把书念下去，然后走出去，不枉活一世"。

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."
致谢部分结尾，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。"