A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
大学是我们文化中的一种主张,即思想创造的东西有价值,可以传达价值。
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
在波士顿,他们从大型的自治高中搬到了同一栋楼里的小型学校。
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
第一次考试后,我转到哲学学院,在慕尼黑和维也纳学习动物学。
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
我认为,尤其是当你在大学的时候,你读的每一本书都会告诉你你是谁。
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
牛津大学和剑桥大学的教师们忙于教育年轻人,而不能教他们任何东西。
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
我认为学校比现实生活要困难得多。人们成年后会更容易接受。
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
去年我在斯坦福大学读书,有时间读报纸。
I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.
我以前是一名普通的大学生,现在我走遍全国,住在非常好的酒店里。
It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
这总是很难的——如果你不是你的球队里最好的球员,你怎么能成为大学里最好的球员呢?
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
诗歌是发生在大学、创意写作项目或英语系的事情。
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
我一直想成为某种作家或报社记者。但大学毕业后…我做了其他的事情。
When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
当我上大学的时候,我被人指责为一个自以为是的人。但是每双好鞋都有不好的一面。
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
长期以自我导向方式工作的学者们,可能尤其容易拖延:调查显示,绝大多数大学生都在拖延,有关拖延症的文献中的文章常常暗指作者自己在完成作品时遇到的问题。
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。
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
当我在大学学习设计时,我决定画画。我在巴西热带雨林旅行时看到的色彩也给了我很大的启发。
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。
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。
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
我是个体育迷。大学足球是我最喜欢的。