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学术
Academic
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
我有一个学者回答问题的习惯。我本应该敷衍了事的。
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
我将无法写出一篇学术性的、干巴巴的谩骂。我有太多的天赋了。
Another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one’s peers.
学术生活的另一条规律是:不可能过分奉承同事。
I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.
我一直认为，学者们应该时不时地沾点油水。
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
如果我是学术机构的一员，我就可以做其他的实验。
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
我不是那种已经写了很多书的学术研究的作家。
As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
作为一个学者，这不是我为自己计划的生活方式。现在我看到自己无处不在。
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
这就是学院派最大的缺点，它关注的是思想而不是思考。
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
有些人留在学术界只是为了避免自我意识。你可以引用我的话。
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
新音乐或现代音乐节的学术领域一点也不吸引我。
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
我认为，学术界在大多数重要的政策辩论中被边缘化，这真的很不幸。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
The academic atmosphere, produced mainly by the humanities, is the only atmosphere in which pure science can flourish.
学术氛围，主要由人文学科产生，是纯科学能够蓬勃发展的唯一氛围。
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
许多文学批评来自于这样的人:对他们来说，极端专业化要么是大脑严重不足的借口，要么是极端懒惰的借口，后者是学术自由的一个非常宝贵的方面。
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
多年后，当我回首往事时，我第一次体验到的学术友谊让我微笑。但是，我的熟人圈子逐渐扩大了，因此自然而然地就产生了新的友谊。
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。
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
我立刻放弃了我的学术抱负，开始全职写小说。