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学校
School
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
当我决定要做什么时，我发现自己认为表演是我喜欢做的事情，所以我申请了戏剧学校。然后，我没有进入-两次。
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
我在皇家艺术学校。那是一所专门为美术教师开设的预科学校。你看，这对艺术家的发展并没有太大帮助。但是我们在那里接受了非常严格的训练。
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
事实是每个人都相信的简单陈述。它是无辜的，除非被判有罪。假设是一种没有人愿意相信的新建议。它是有罪的，直到被发现有效。
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
但事实是，无论老师有多好，班级有多小，学校对素质教育有多重视，如果我们忽视学生的个人需求，这些都无关紧要。
It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
总是说，‘你是那个跑步女孩吗?我说，“我的名字其实是莎莉。”“我以前在学校也经常听到这样的话，‘你是那个跑步女孩吗?’”她说，我甚至不是跑步女孩，我是跨栏运动员。
I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
我喜欢上学，喜欢穿校服，喜欢每天做作业。我是那些老师喜欢的好学生之一。我想那一定是我的一个相当书呆子，极客的部分。
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
每一门科学的基础都有一套固定不变的原则体系，就像宇宙受到这些原则的制约和支配一样。人不能制定原则;他只能发现它们。
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调，但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
我的寄宿学校经历是我唯一有足够强烈的感情去写成百上千页的东西。我在生物课上还能闻到胎儿猪的甲醛味。
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
作为一名理论物理学家，想到在我之前获得诺贝尔奖的杰出人物，我立刻感到自豪和谦卑。
The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
被欺负的直男回家后会找个肩膀哭诉和支持，并且可以自由地谈论他在学校的经历和他被欺负的原因。我不能回家向父母敞开心扉。
But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.
但我高中毕业就应征入伍了，而我妈妈却没有。她说，你不能以为你可以打球，因为如果你受伤了，你就会倒霉。
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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。
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
当我不知道自己在做什么的时候，我就在做研究。
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
从未上过学的人可能从货车上偷东西;但是如果他受过大学教育，他可能会偷走整条铁路。
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
在进化中没有捷径。
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
没有人能在回顾他的学生时代时，坦率地说，他们完全不快乐。