A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学术
Academic
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.
正如没有哪只猴子长得像人类中最丑陋的猴子一样，没有哪位学者比最糟糕的创造者更有价值。
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
女孩在学业上更有力量。他们给学生打分，他们组织学生活动，他们是告别演说者。
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
我发现有一种音乐很适合我;我从来没有想过要写学术上可以接受的音乐。
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
我在学校里成绩平平，无论是学业上还是体育方面……我总是有惹麻烦的倾向。
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination.
天才的想象力远远超过他的智力;这位学者的智力大大超过了他的想象。
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
说实话，我对生物学或历史没有学术上的耐心，但我总是喜欢这类大问题。
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
通常情况下，学术部门会像走投无路的动物一样，满怀激情地捍卫自己的领土，尽管理由远远不够充分。
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
我试着当一名机械师，也试着做餐饮，但我意识到，与学术工作相比，我更不擅长半熟练的工作。
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。
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。
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
学术表现得好像它们很重要，但当某些东西是学术性的，它就没有意义了。人们说，‘这是学术性的，现在让我们完成工作吧。’
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
几乎所有学科的职业生涯都是通过成为一个超级明星来培养的，因为他比世界上任何人都更了解一个学科。
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When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
当不朽不再是学术讨论的问题，而是所有问题中最重要的问题;我们将在前人找到安慰的地方找到安慰，用古老的语言。
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
我们所有的人——你和我，甚至是在非洲前线的成千上万的士兵——我们非常希望战争能够结束，但只是在学术上。
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。
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
当然，艺术界的道德规范很重要。但博物馆并不比任何其他机构或企业更纯粹。学者并不一定比画廊家高尚。
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
玩扑克的人知道，有时候科学和常识都是错误的;大黄蜂会飞;也许，一个人永远不应该相信专家;天地间的事比那些有学术倾向的人所能梦想到的还要多。
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
我看着谷歌，觉得他们有很强的学术文化。复杂问题的优雅解决方案。