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大学
College
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
就像任何一个上大学的人一样，你离开了一个熟悉的环境，一个舒适的环境，你的朋友和一切，你重新开始。这可能是相当艰巨的。
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
我从小就具有的坚韧的性格促使我成功地迎接了这一挑战，并且我能够安全地获得我所选择的大学的录取。
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
爵士乐是布鲁斯音乐的老大哥。如果一个人也像我们一样演奏蓝调，那他就是高中生了。当他开始演奏爵士乐时，就像进入了大学，进入了一所高等学府。
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
在高中，我发现了自己。我对种族关系和法律职业感兴趣。我读过关于林肯的书，他认为法律是最难的职业。
I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.
我只想上大学，玩得开心——我想成为一名普通的学生。我只上大学。我又不是要结婚——虽然有时候我就是这么想的。
But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
但在我上大学的时候，我和我的朋友们在去任何地方或做任何事情之前都要喝大量的酒，这一点你是知道的。
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
在我看来，大萧条是一股恶风，但也带来了一些好处。如果这事没有发生，我父母就会给我上大学了。事实上，我必须拼字才能找到它。
By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
到我上大学的时候，我已经决定不要孩子了，这个决定从来没有后悔过。因此，我小心地只追求那些想要有职业生涯的女孩。
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
我的大学学位是戏剧。但真正的原因，如果我在那个环境中有任何成功的话，可以说，是因为我花了很多时间导演，我花了很多时间在幕后。
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
在我就读的公立学校里，我憎恨每一张面孔，因为我害怕校长是一位勋爵。
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
母亲说我不能容忍无知，而要理解文盲。一些不能上学的人比大学教授受教育程度更高，更聪明。
When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.
当我长大后，我一直想演戏。此外，我想成为一名律师或医生。然而，当我上了大学，意识到这些职业的要求时，我很快改变了主意。
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Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
我没有上大学，而是把时间花在学习如何成为一名更好的音乐家上。
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 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。
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。
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
没有人能在回顾他的学生时代时，坦率地说，他们完全不快乐。