A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
大学是对高中生活的奖励。大多数人都有大学里的有趣故事和高中里的噩梦故事。
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
在大学期间，我是一名工会劳工组织者。我只是众多努力帮助社区的工人之一。
High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
总的来说，高中生活很糟糕。所以，我认为这是我停止演戏的好时机。我在高中的时候变得很正常。
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
不幸的是，现在大多数大学生并不是来自任何地方——他们似乎总是一遍又一遍地问同样的问题。
When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.
当我最终决定我唯一的希望是上大学时，我上了一门表演课，当我走上舞台时，我就知道我到家了。
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
我在大学里教过研讨班。我为杂志写文章。这需要时间和疯狂的杂耍，但这就是我谋生的方式。
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
我不想当舞蹈家。我这样做只是为了供自己上大学。但我一直是一名运动员和体操运动员，所以这很自然。
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
我记得当我还是个孩子的时候，我得到了一份奖学金，就像去火星一样，我决定留在我的公立学校。
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
大学的本质特征是成为一个自由调查和批评的中心——这是一件不能为其他任何事情牺牲的事情。
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
我在一个军人家庭长大。我从一个学校搬到另一个学校，所以人们并不总是最欢迎新来的女生。
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
幸运的是，我的父母没有反对我的野心，他们一直非常支持我。但他们坚持要我先上大学。
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
文理学院在大学中的作用是成为大学真正的一部分，给予和回应其他部分。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
在我职业生涯的每一个阶段，我都有一些有趣而热情的同事，其中一些是亲密的朋友。
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
如果你告诉别人你是一名大学生，人们会对你印象深刻。你可以成为任何领域的学生，而不需要知道任何东西。只要说“毒理学”或“海洋生物动力”，你的谈话对象就会转移话题。如果这不起作用，提到胚胎鸽子的神经突触。
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
我上了大学，但我通过阅读和写作学会了写作。
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。
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
捕鲸船是我的耶鲁大学和哈佛大学。