A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
在大学里，我周末在一家餐馆做了一场演出，这是我做过的最好的练习。在那里我学会了协调我的歌唱和钢琴演奏。
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
小学必须承担起一项崇高而最庄严的责任，那就是教育里面的每一个孩子读书。任何没有做到这一点的学校都是失败的。
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
我们在大学里学到把华兹华斯和济慈视为浪漫主义者。他们只相隔了一代人，但华兹华斯甚至没有读过济慈的书，当他给他一本时。
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
作为一个男孩，我一直对戏剧感兴趣。但我在学校的想法是，戏剧和音乐能让这个人更丰满。这不是一个人谋生的方式。我克服了。
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
我怀疑，埃克塞特在我的生活中比我班上大多数同学的生活中都更重要，而且可以想象，比几乎所有曾经上过这所学校的人的生活中都更重要。
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.
通往新闻业的道路有很多。我的感觉是，你在大学里最好的选择是学习你想写的科目，无论是政治、环境还是法律。
I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
我非常喜欢学校，如果我的事业放缓，我就会去上大学。但是孩子们上大学就像我现在这样。不是为了贬低大学，但对我来说，这就离题了。
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
你开始认为世界是一种特定的方式，而忘记了校园边界之外还有另一个世界，与你当时的世界无关。
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
平权法案是一个很好的术语，用来描述在工作、就业、晋升、奖学金和大学录取等方面对更优秀的白人的种族歧视。
Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.
基本上，就在上大学之前，我的脚进入了吉尼斯世界纪录，我开始做当地的商业广告和电台小广告，我发现我真的很喜欢它。
I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.
我爱指挥。我在芝加哥上大学的时候就开始做戏剧，大学刚毕业我就开了一家戏剧公司，做了很多年的导演。
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
世间很少有比大学更美的东西了。在大学里，憎恨无知的人可以努力去了解，领悟真理的人可以努力让别人看到。
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I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
我是肯尼迪家族中第一个大学毕业的男孩。
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 liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.
我小时候喜欢演戏，后来上了大学。但那是我最后一次演戏。我一直很喜欢。但我的兴趣更多的是着眼于整体，而不是被整体的某一部分完全吞没。
I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.
我被高中开除了，所以我进不了很多大学。
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 think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
我认为每个人都应该上大学，拿到学位，然后做六个月的酒保和六个月的出租车司机。这样他们才会真正受到教育。