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学术
Academic
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
我感到幸运,因为我是一个书呆子,我谈论的书,但我有学术成就,通过,因为那是我的父母把大量的价值,我度过了一段美好的童年,因为我完成了预期的在学校的好。
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为，学术小说已经够多了，而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的，他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。
There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设，如果你知道自己就要死了，而你还有最后一堂课，你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说，房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象，对我来说，这不是假设。
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
我的父母从很小的时候开始，他们是家里唯一的大学毕业生。作为父母，他们专注于教育，但并不止步于学术——他们确保我们了解音乐，观看艺术和戏剧，旅行——即使这意味着疯狂的预算。
I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.
我有很强的学术倾向。但我的内心生活却一片混乱。我回到家，我的家庭生活是如此的悲惨，我觉得我在做我应该做的一切。我做我所有的家务，取得了很好的成绩，我在学校很优秀，但我不快乐。
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
作为父母，我们需要把孩子送回“老式”的户外夏令营，随着对体育和学术性夏令营的需求上升，户外夏令营的数量一直在下降。我们需要反对削减公共公园项目的预算，反对关闭公共游泳池和游乐场。
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
人类的智力比正规的学术教育所引导我们相信的更丰富、更有活力。
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
在一个我们都应该同意的学术环境中，对我们的期望过高，但对纪律和不变的礼貌的期望也不过高。
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
我不认为学术写作有多好。然而，科学过去没有那么专业化。
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
我的学术身份是一个民俗学家，多年来我只教民俗学课程。
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
我觉得很有趣的是，有些学者试图分析学生大脑中的化学变化，同时又让他们接触笑料。
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
我召集了来自医疗保健、商业、学术机构和社区的专家，为消除波士顿市医疗保健方面的种族和民族差异制定了一份全面的蓝图。