A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
我以前在利物浦的学校现在是一所表演艺术学校,我在那里教书——我随便用这个词——但我去那里和学生们交谈。
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
在一家初创公司工作,赚大钱从来都不是一件容易的事,这就是我决定完成学业的原因。这对我来说更重要。
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
你永远不能依赖音乐家。有一次,为了和这支乐队一起成功,我从高中退学,然后我们就分手了。所以我回到了学校。
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
所有科学的伟大目标都是通过从最少的假设或公理中进行逻辑推理来涵盖最多的经验事实。
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
我在初中的时候在初中组里表演,然后当我上高中的时候,你知道,我是高中的主要演员。
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
一个人可以根据一组理论建立一所学校;但在一组价值观上,人们可以找到一种文化,一种文明,一种人类共同生活的新方式。
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
毕竟,科学本质上是国际性的,只有在缺乏历史感的情况下,人们才会认为科学具有民族性。
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
我进入一所表演学校学习了几年。他们过去有即兴表演的练习,你可以练习,你也可以即兴表演。
My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
我的童年非常舒适和安全,但上学是一场噩梦。我比其他女孩高很多,她们叫我长颈鹿吉特。
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.
我高中没毕业;他们不得不改变常青藤联盟的规则。在我任职布朗大学期间,我帮助他们成为常春藤盟校的第一名。
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
现在名声和耻辱没有区别了。现在有一群不做任何事的专业名人。他们不创造任何东西。
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
我可能是我高中里第一个上耶鲁的孩子。我几乎是在开玩笑。然后,当我到那里的时候,我是你们班上最笨的人。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
万有引力不是人们坠入爱河的原因。
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
政治是暂时的,但方程式是永恒的。
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
科学是事实;正如房子是石头做的一样,科学也是由事实组成的;但是一堆石头并不是一座房子,收集的事实也不一定是科学。
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
我喜欢历史作品。历史是我在学校最喜欢的科目,它是我唯一擅长的科目。我喜欢历史的观念,喜欢我们有机会从过去的错误中吸取教训的观念。
When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.
当我高中毕业的时候,老师说我把我的生命都浪费在音乐上了,那个老师邀请我回学校演讲。我这么说不是为了炫耀,我只是想做个榜样。
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
不要逃避辛苦,让自己因这样或那样的才能而变得卓越;只是不可专心在一个枝子上。努力对所有事情都有清晰的概念。完全不放弃科学;因为科学只是其中之一。