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大学
College
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
在大学里，我总是对那些关于社会问题的讲座感到失望，但却不知道我能做些什么来改变它们。部分原因在于，许多教授根本不相信自己在将意识转化为行动方面发挥了作用。
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
我们把这看作是人生的第二或第三章。大学毕业后，大多数人都想好了自己的人生目标。但是我们已经知道我们未来想做什么，那就是继续推进我们的商业目标。
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
在大学里，我从未意识到职业运动员所能获得的机会。我有机会认识各种各样的人，去旅行，扩大我的经济能力，获得想法，了解生活，创造一个篮球之外的世界。
My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
当我进入这个行业的时候，我的目标是成为一名音乐家，不一定是一名录音艺术家，只是一名普通的音乐家。这就是我上大学并获得学位的原因，这对我来说很好。它对我的事业帮助很大。
When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.
当人们说上大学不值得，花那么多钱不值得时，我真的不同意。我认为那些经验和那些课程，可能在现在看来并不一定适用，最终会一次又一次地回到你的脑海中。
I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.
我很难听到自己内心深处想要成为什么样的人，因为有那么多完美的例子可以说明一个男人真正在做什么。他上大学，结婚，养家糊口。这就是男人的工作。
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
我希望我能去我的好朋友去的学校，但我显然不能。好在，他们真的很乐意邀请我去看所有的足球比赛之类的。所以我最终被一所我没有上过的学校所吸收的团队精神。
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape.
我生长在一个非常小、关系密切的南方浸信会家庭，那里的一切都是禁区。所以我迫不及待地想上大学，找点乐子。在最初的两年里我做到了。我很后悔，因为我的成绩很差。
Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.
大学生将会了解到，研究是相对彻底的调查，主要是在图书馆中，对一个适当有限的主题进行调查，并将调查结果以一篇精心组织和记录的篇幅较长的论文的形式展示出来。
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
我在大学里修了两门小说写作课程，主修文学。我觉得我有一种诀窍，尽管我不会把它称为天赋。但我很害怕。我觉得想写作是一件幼稚的事情，我最终会忘记它。
Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.
然后你去了乔治敦大学，我真的很喜欢那里的一切。当我和我妈妈一起去那里的时候，我真的看到了他们在做什么。我必须考虑到这样一所学校能为我做些什么，即使我不是一名篮球运动员。
If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.
如果我在为小学生设计一个网站，我可能会有更高比例的老式电脑使用过时的浏览器，因为跟上浏览器和硬件技术并不是大多数小学的强项。
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
我加入了学校乐队和学校合唱团。这一切对我来说都是沉重的打击，所有的东西都冒了出来。我打了一段时间的打击乐，放学后就一直呆在家里，摆弄着不同的乐器，单簧管和小提琴。
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。
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。
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
大学让我有了不同的想法。这是你生命中独一无二的时刻。
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'm the first person in my family to go to college.
我是家里第一个上大学的人。