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There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.
最近关于课程改革和教科书修订方面取得进展的讨论如此之多，以致于教学领域以外的人很少了解我们大多数小学教材仍然有多差。
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
是的，我们必须这样分配我们的时间，在我们的政治和我们的方程式之间。但对我来说，我们的方程式要重要得多，因为政治只是当前关注的问题。数学方程式永远成立。
Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.
作为一个十几岁的孩子，我会认为他们非常严格，我会感到不安，但我很高兴他们是这样的。他们不让我们为所欲为。我们直到高中三年级才被允许约会。
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
我是说，我从来就不喜欢别人告诉我该做什么。这是我辍学的原因之一。给我一些组装的东西，我不会看方向，我会试着自己算出来。这就是我喜欢宜家家具的原因。
For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
例如，在我从法学院退学前的那个夏天，我在白宫实习。每个人都知道这件事。我回到家，去教堂，每个人都会说，‘哦，我的上帝。黛米特丽，你在白宫工作。”
Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.
请记住，我的父亲直到我上高中才成为一名超级巨星——所以，就在他正在经历他的伟大复兴的时候，我也开始在我的高中里反叛。
I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.
我是皮威足球的四分卫。我一直想当四分卫。他们是领导者，他们做决定。但没有成功，因为我没有手臂。在高中的最后一年，我还打过广角。
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.
我总是被表演所吸引。我在暑假参加即兴表演和表演班，并参与了中学和高中的戏剧表演。但当我在高中发现独立音乐和朋克音乐时，这些东西就占据了上风。
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
我们的世界充满了核巨人和道德婴儿。我们对战争的了解多于对和平的了解，对杀戮的了解多于对生活的了解。我们掌握了原子的奥秘，拒绝了登山宝训。
I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.
我总觉得自己生活在两个世界里。一个是墨西哥世界，因为我认识的几乎所有人，包括亲戚、堂兄妹和邻居的孩子，都是墨西哥人。那时的学校是一个不同的世界。它是种族混合的。
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
他的女儿从寄宿学校回来了，在时髦的空气和制造时髦的玩具方面有了进步;但是，在她的谈话中，他徒劳地寻找着他所向往的那种高雅而丰富的思想。
Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
不到一岁，我就会走路、说话，甚至还接受过上厕所的训练。当我开始上学的时候，我想我让每个人都很紧张，因为我过去常常问成年人的问题，而不是满足于通常给孩子们吃的东西。
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
真正的恐惧是某天早上醒来发现你的高中班级正在管理这个国家。
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
科学有时被说成是与信仰对立的，而且与信仰不一致。但事实上，所有的科学都建立在信仰的基础上，因为它假定自然规律的持久性和统一性——这是永远无法证明的。
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。
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。
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
如果事实与理论不符，那就改变事实。
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。