A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.
我是一个在学校被欺负的孩子,现在那些打那些孩子的人戴着红色的帽子,用我的音乐来助长这种攻击性。但如果他们听歌词,这种攻击就会针对他们。
Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.
公司治理也是一个大问题。我们的公司董事会中没有女性。法学院超过一半的学生是女性,我想,现在医学院超过一半的学生是女性。
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
然而,我偶然遇到了史蒂文斯理工学院的招生官,他的博学和对学校的热情给我留下了深刻的印象,于是我改变了课程,进入了史蒂文斯理工学院。
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
每个星期五下午,我都骑着一头大骡子走完六英里的路程回家。我花了周六和周日的时间为孩子们洗衣、熨衣服和做饭,周日下午回到了我的乡村学校。
I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.
我记得,我妈妈没有任何帮助,所以如果她放学后需要去什么地方,我们就去邻居家,她会给我们一些零食,确保我们做了家庭作业。没有带钥匙的孩子。
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
很少有悲剧能比生活的阻碍更广泛,很少有不公平能比剥夺一个奋斗甚至希望的机会更深刻,而这种机会是由外部强加的,却被错误地认定为内在的。
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
克隆人类、行为控制、基因工程、移植头颅、电脑诗歌和塑料花的无限制生长,都是科学界最令人担忧的问题。
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
你知道吗,当你年轻的时候,你在高中看一场戏剧,所有的男人都是白发苍苍,他们想成为老年人,却不知道那是什么样子?只是反过来太蠢了。
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
在未来两年内,联合国儿童基金会将致力于改善教育机会和质量,为辍学或在校期间工作的儿童提供接受正规教育的机会!
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
错误的事实对科学的进步是非常有害的,因为它们往往持续很长时间;但是,错误的观点,如果有一些证据支持,几乎没有什么害处,因为每个人都乐于证明自己的错误。
I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
我在学校有朋友,但我从来没有加入过帮派,我梦想着成为一个团体的一员。你知道,在哪里人们会叫我“他们”,然后隔着酒吧大喊,“他们,你在喝什么?””“演出之后。
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
我坚持认为科学比伪科学有更多的奇迹。此外,无论这个术语的意义是什么,科学还有一个额外的优点,那就是它的真实性。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人,而不是那些知道得很多的人,如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
当我调查发现,当我发现天堂和行星的力量就在我们的内心时,我真的好像生活在众神之中。
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。
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
在科学上,我们必须对事物感兴趣,而不是对人。
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
在进化中没有捷径。