A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
嘿，我们都上过高中我们都见过拥挤的人群。我们大多数人都在外面的人群中，那些不在里面的人。虽然我从来没有参加过，但我在卖唱片，而且非常开心。
I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.
我上高中时是个哥特女孩。也许粉末状的白脸和黑色的唇膏并不是最吸引人的。当时我感觉很棒，但现在回想起来，嗯，可能不是最好的主意。
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.
我在一年的时间里完成了小学前三年的学习，并在六岁的时候直接进入了当地的一所学校，比我所有的同龄人都要小两岁。
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
我对私立学校没有意见。我和我的母亲都从大学毕业。私立学校是有用的，我们经常使用公共资金来支付他们的基础设施和其他共同需求。
No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.
不，我的继女刚刚为孩子们开办了一所戏剧学校，我还有一个女儿在唱片业工作，另一个正在上大学，我家里有两个小孩。
So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
所以我决定在大学的最后两年做一些我认为我会喜欢的事情，那就是表演。可能是因为戏剧学校里也有女生吧?
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
你知道，有一段时间，就在我开始学习物理科学之前，天文学家们认为像我们太阳系这样的系统需要罕见的三次恒星碰撞。
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
但无论如何，我的考试成绩很差，所以在学校的前三年，我的老师认为我很笨，当人们认为你很笨时，他们对你的期望很低。
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
我参加了我能参加的每一个乐队班，比如放学后的爵士乐队和军乐队，那是我从小学一直学到初中和高中阅读音乐的地方。
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
我没有和罗切斯特爱乐乐团合作，但我组建了自己的管弦乐队，由我现在任教的伊士曼学院的音乐家组成，指挥爵士乐团，并教授即兴创作课程。
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
当我意识到我阅读有困难时，我不好意思去寻求帮助。一些老师相信我，但我只是没有把注意力放在学习上——我喜欢音乐，并试图取悦我的父亲。
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.
维持教室的秩序从来就不是一件容易的事，很明显，学校的环境需要放松一些限制，而这些限制通常是由公共当局进行搜查的。
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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。
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。
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
首先，上帝创造了傻瓜。那是练习。然后他制作了校董会。
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。
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
今天的科学就是明天的技术。
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。