A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
我拿到了体操奖学金上了大学,爱上了我一生的真爱——我现在和他结婚了——他也是个处男。非常浪漫。
I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.
从幼儿园到大学,我知道我这一生想做什么。我一直都想演戏。我坚持了下来,投入了很多时间。
Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
每个人都想劝你不要上大学。大家一致认为人们会忘记你,你知道,这就是商业运作的方式。
When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.
当我上大学的时候,有几年我不知道该做什么,实际上是我妈妈建议我上一些新闻学的课程。
At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
在我们的大学里,老师教给我们一种了解一个人的普遍方法:这个人有什么问题,有什么困难,有什么个人倾向和喜欢什么。
I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
我有很多朋友,他们不知道自己想做什么。他们大学毕业,工作,但不确定自己在做什么,这是正常的。
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
我确实有一段模糊的记忆,记得我坐在楼梯上,一次又一次地试着系鞋带,但这就是我在学校里的全部回忆。
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.
我学习阅读很晚,因为我从小就有阅读障碍。我上大学的时候,一个爱读书的朋友让我开始接触很多作家,包括海明威。
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
你应该在高中有更多的乐趣,探索事物因为你想探索它们,学习因为你喜欢学习——而不是担心竞争。
That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.
在大学里也是一样。在高中也是一样。孩子们越来越大,越来越强壮,越来越快,越来越喜欢举重,越来越喜欢营养,越来越喜欢体型。
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
毕业典礼演讲的发明很大程度上是基于这样一种信念,即外向的大学生不应该被释放到这个世界上,除非他们被适当地镇定剂。
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
我辍学一个学期,转到另一所大学,转到艺术专业,毕业,结婚,做了一段时间的平面设计师。
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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。
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。
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。
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
到了上大学的时候,是在战争期间。
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。
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。