By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

  • -- Michael J. Fox 迈克尔·J·福克斯

到我上高中的时候,我已经完全放弃了学业,转而投身于蓬勃发展的演艺事业。

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

许多文学批评来自于这样的人:对他们来说,极端专业化要么是大脑严重不足的借口,要么是极端懒惰的借口,后者是学术自由的一个非常宝贵的方面。

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

在很长一段时间里,我对商学院的同事们以及许多并不认为自己是创新者的管理学作者感到沮丧。他们是光荣的记者。

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

伟大的抱负,对真正的优越性的渴望,对领导和指导的渴望,似乎完全是人类所特有的,而演讲是实现抱负的伟大工具。

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

是的,我在高中的时候试过演戏,但我演得很糟糕。所以我肯定有过不擅长艺术的经历。

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

躺在床上是一种完美的、至高无上的体验,只要你有一支足够长的彩色铅笔在天花板上画画。

The academic atmosphere, produced mainly by the humanities, is the only atmosphere in which pure science can flourish.

学术氛围,主要由人文学科产生,是纯科学能够蓬勃发展的唯一氛围。

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms not with standing. You can only spend it.

你不能买时间,也不能节省时间。你只能花掉它。

I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.

我高中就辍学了;我是一个孤独的人。