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学校
School
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.
我上中学的时候,一些所谓的朋友发现了我为超人睡衣做的广告。他们尽可能多地复印,贴满了学校。
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
教派制度和公立学校制度的不同之处在于,一方面支持他们,另一方面又不干涉他们。
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
如果你在小学的时候问我长大后想做什么,我会说我的第一选择是当演员,但如果我不能成为演员,我想成为超级英雄。
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
我离开了科学,然后我进入了艺术领域,但我对事物的分析非常透彻。我选择将艺术和建筑作为完全独立的领域,而不是将它们融合在一起。
And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?
我能理解这一点,因为我上的是一所全是白人的学校,所以我知道那是什么感觉。那时候很困难,但是任何困难的东西你都能从中学到,不是吗?
I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
我是四个孩子的父亲,所以每当我不工作的时候,我的孩子们就会有不同的运动、戏剧或学校表演,所以除了做父亲,我不会做很多其他事情。
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
无线电业务中我最不感兴趣的是无线电业务。但是我已经学了一点。这不是火箭科学:你得到评级,这很好。
I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'
我上的是服装和纺织品学校,我想这就是我要做的。然后我开始穿上戏服,我真的说,‘我不知道我能不能带上演员。’
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
你可以选择科罗拉多大学这样的学校,有选择性的录取标准。它有一个更优秀的学生,所以你应该有一个更优秀的学生出来。
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
然后当我在文法学校的时候,我吹单簧管,然后,在单簧管之后,我在大学管弦乐队吹长笛——除了在大学合唱团唱歌之类的。
I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.
我没有上高中,但当我上高中的时候,我实际上是啦啦队的一员;我不是他们中的一员。但是我和一群不同的孩子一起玩。
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
百花齐放、百家争鸣,是促进我国文理进步和文化繁荣的方针。
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
科学家的动机主要是好奇心和对真理的渴望。
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。
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
我不知道我似乎世界,但我对自己似乎一直只是一个在海边嬉戏的孩子,并将自己在现在,然后找到一个光滑的鹅卵石或一个漂亮的外壳比普通,而在我面前的伟大的真理的海洋熟视无睹。
I never dated much in high school or college.
我在高中和大学都没怎么约会过。
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
科学是有组织的知识。智慧是有组织的生活。
This is great for our school. The kids have really played well this season.
这对我们学校来说太棒了。这个赛季孩子们真的打得很好。