A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
我妈妈不想让我上大学。她不想让我读书——当我读书的时候,我就像拿着一个菠萝一样。
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
女性问题在大学校园或危机地区的女性中心以外的地方被提起,这是出乎意料的。
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
我的父母对大学有一个老式的理想,那就是四年的文科教育应该是文科教育。
When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
当我在大学里表演单口相声时,女孩们会在表演结束后和我聊天,这总是让我感觉很好。我喜欢和他们聊天。
I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.
我在一个家庭和一个你可以做任何事情的世界里长大。我们都想上大学。我父亲是一名医生。
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.
看到一名球员在女子大学篮球比赛中扣篮真是太棒了。很高兴看到现在的比赛已经达到了那个水平。
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
我不会说我们的学校很艰苦,但我们有自己的验尸官。我们曾经写过这样的随笔:“如果我长大了,我会成为什么样的人?”
I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.
我有西班牙语文学学士学位,所以我想,如果我在另一个国家,比如挪威,西班牙语说得不好,可能会有人花钱雇我。
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
信不信由你,很多人换专业,放弃他们的梦想,只是为了逃避几节数学课在大学。
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
我在大学里没有即兴表演,我从来没有表演过,我也没有演过戏剧。我在学生会,我是历史专业的。
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
我会说普通话,会读会写。为了提高我的阅读和写作能力,我在哈佛上了几节课。
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
我上大学的时候就做过录音,做过小演示,那时候我经常在那里做演出。但我从没想过我会有唱片公司。
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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。
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
我一直想在高中毕业前发行自己的专辑。
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。
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
当今真正的大学是一所藏书的大学。