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大学
College
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。
I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
我在大学里从来没有真正地喝过咖啡,但是现在我一天到晚都在外面站着,真不敢相信我的生活中从来没有真正地喝过咖啡。当早晨来临时,我渴望它。
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
你几乎没有自由,如果你教一群研究生,和他们中的一个交朋友。我不是指任何充满情欲的东西,只是一段友谊。
I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
我在大学三年级的时候被诱惑离开了大学,放弃了我的资格。我打破了几项世界纪录。我确实有很多人告诉我,我应该成为职业球员。
I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.
我真的很想成为一名医生,直到我大学一年级的时候,我意识到虽然我擅长化学和生物,我真的没有感到挑战。
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
电视正在变成拼贴画——有那么多的频道,你可以通过它们自己制作拼贴画。从这个意义上说,每个人都看到了一些不同的东西。
I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.
我注意到,几乎所有和我一起上大学的人都从事过与他们所学专业无关的工作。我想这是校园骚乱的原因之一。
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
巴黎的寄宿学校生活很苦,我没有很好地忍受。我一直在生病,或在任何情况下虚弱,在神经崩溃的边缘。
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
即使一所大学变成了另一种形式的学校,我也已经决定,我可能会在毕业后迷失自己,成为我已经热爱的伦敦的一个无名小我。
I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'
我的父母都是教师,祖父母都是移民,所以他们最重要的是,‘上大学,上大学,上大学。’
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
我要去哥伦比亚大学,但是我尽量保持低调,因为我不想让奇怪的人跟着我去那里。我想体验一下师范大学的生活。
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
我记得,我上寄宿学校的时候,我的梦想是有一个属于我自己的书房,一个没有人能接近我的小角落——没有人,像足球教练那样。
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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 went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.
我大部分的青春都是在女子寄宿学校度过的。
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。
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。
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。
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
如果你想成为一名医生,律师,你必须上大学。但如果你想成为一名音乐家或类似的人,学习你的手艺。学习音乐。