I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  • -- Quincy Jones 昆西琼斯

我获得了西雅图大学的奖学金,当时我正在为歌手和所有人写安排。但是音乐课太枯燥了,我真想离开家。

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Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

大学生将会了解到,研究是相对彻底的调查,主要是在图书馆中,对一个适当有限的主题进行调查,并将调查结果以一篇精心组织和记录的篇幅较长的论文的形式展示出来。

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

在基本音轨被剪掉之后,如果我在写喇叭的编曲或者演奏弦乐,我可能会安排,计划好。其他时候,我只是坐着卷磁带。

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

似乎我们的国家已经变成了一个只有摇滚歌手和棒球运动员为英雄的国家,没有一个正直的大个子可以被召唤来完成这项任务。

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

另一方面,熵理论与一系列项目的连续概率无关,而是与给定排列中各种项目的总体分布有关。

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

古希腊人是第一个说未经检验的生命不值得活下去的人。他们当然不会告诉你我们发现了什么,一个经过检验的生命也没有那么迷人。

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

我要对西雅图的人民说,对所有相信我、相信我的西雅图人说:我不会让任何人失望。

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

当一个歌手真正感受和体验到音乐的真谛时,歌词就会自动变得真实。

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

当然,我也有不安全感,但我不会和那些向我指出这些不安全感的人一起出去玩。

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

我没有在一所重点学校获得体育奖学金。

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

在餐馆里钢笔很少会干枯。