A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
大学是打磨鹅卵石、淡化钻石的地方。
My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.
我今年的课程表比较轻松，因为今年是奥运年。
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
我从来没有在家里学过仇恨和羞耻。我不得不去上学。
I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.
我上的是法学院。我发现前三周很有趣。
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
我不记得我写过任何东西，直到我写了我的大学申请。
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
我太爱学校了，以至于我的大多数同学都认为我是个呆子。
College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
大学与其说是你去了哪里，不如说是你回来后的谈吐。
I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.
我上了大学，读了医学预科，我想我要成为一名医生。
I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.
我上大学的时候想从事电影批评方面的工作。
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
但我在波特兰郊区上的高中，在这里上的大学。
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
在我上大学的时候，大三的时候，我在一家煤矿工作。
I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
我在高中时喜欢上了戏剧，后来上了大学。
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
大学应该是一个充满光明、自由和学习的地方。
Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.
是的，有些孩子叫我鱼嘴，因为我的嘴唇很丰满。现在我确定所有这些女孩都在注射胶原蛋白，所以我笑到了最后。
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
在大学里，你学习如何学习。四年的时间花在这上面并不多。
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
我不知道圣费尔南多谷一所小型私立大学里的这些孩子来自哪里，他们为什么来听我演讲，或者他们需要知道什么。
If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.
如果我在为小学生设计一个网站，我可能会有更高比例的老式电脑使用过时的浏览器，因为跟上浏览器和硬件技术并不是大多数小学的强项。
Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.
高尔夫就像我生命中的99.9%，然后还有学校。我没有太多的时间和我的朋友出去。