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学位
Degree
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
我们只能知道我们一无所知。这是人类智慧的最高境界。
I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
我可以拿到音乐学位，然后上节目，西蒙仍然可以说“你臭”。
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
是的，很明显，人们在一定程度上希望接受他人的信仰和哲学。
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
语言知识非常有用。我有外语和文学的大学学位。
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
我明白，如果我有一定程度的敏感、倾向和愤怒，我可能会以不同的方式结束。
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
我们对孩子们的承诺应该是:如果你在学校表现好，我们会为你支付大学学位。
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
在某种程度上，我本来是想要孩子的，但坦白地说，我没有时间带孩子去看那该死的球赛。
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
如果你愿意，我曾经是一个成功的学生，因为我在所有能让你在学校取得成功的必要条件上都有一定的天赋。
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
我为我的学位写了一本小说，我很高兴我没有把它交给出版商。我很同情我的教授们，他们不得不读这本书。
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
任何人都能被赋予高度的创造力吗?不。如果他们一开始就有开发的设备，他们就可以得到开发的设备。
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
我从来都不是注册会计师。我刚拿到会计学位。这需要通过一项测试，而这是我无法做到的。
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
任何程度的服从都可以成为真正的伟大，因为它源于对法律和誓言的忠诚，而不是来自灵魂的卑劣。
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
虽然我没有商科学位，但我喜欢学习经济学。
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
任何国家都不能摆脱军国主义，这是主权国家概念所固有的。各国的军国主义只是程度不同。
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
爱的程度是由给予的程度来衡量的。
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.
在很大程度上，那些早期的贫困日子是自我强加的。
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
我想成为一名建筑师。我毕业时获得了建筑学学位，并获得奖学金回到普林斯顿大学获得建筑学硕士学位。我在大学里演过戏剧，但我演是因为它很有趣。