A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.
直到我上高中三年级的时候,我才发现化妆、可爱的发型和衣服。
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
在我研究生二年级的时候,我修了一门计算机课程,那就像闪电一样。
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
律师越多,就有越多的人鼓励别人不要去法学院。
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
真正的恐惧是某天早上醒来发现你的高中班级正在管理这个国家。
I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.
我正在参观我的高中。每半年我做一次考试,然后今年我就要毕业了。
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
总而言之,认为大师创造了学校,这是一个历史性的错误;学生们成功了!
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
如果人类的大脑如此简单以至于我们能够理解它,那么我们就会如此简单以至于我们无法理解它。
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
如果你是一名运动员,上学是最好的地方,因为你可以安排自己的时间。
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
在病房里,十美分的人类理解相当于十美元的医学科学。
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
为了上烹饪学校,我最终拒绝了音乐学院的全额奖学金。
After a feller gits famous it don't take long fer some one t' bob up that used t' set by him at school.
一个男孩出了名,没过多久,就有一个人像他在学校里教的那样,突然冒了出来。
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
我在两点钟学会了读书。我在蒙特梭利的一所学校,他们在你很小的时候就教你阅读。
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.
我希望我能给女孩们一个机会,让她们意识到她们可以一边游泳一边上学。一旦他们高中毕业就不能放弃。他们可以在以后的生活中继续这样做。
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
我去学校接受特殊教育。我总是认为,当我有机会,我愿意尝试帮助残疾儿童。
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
科学是有组织的常识,许多美好的理论都被丑陋的事实扼杀了。
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
学校把生活分成两个部分,这两个部分的长度越来越接近。与其他任何事情一样,学校教育意味着对那些在其他地方被宣布为不受欢迎的人的监护,因为一所学校是为他们而建的。
Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
我们的父母非常严格。不是以一种残忍或可怕的方式,而是有明确的规则,比如在学校晚上六点以后你不出去,周末你必须在某个时间回家。这里没有特别的庇护,但我们都是受过良好教育的。