A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
大学
College
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
亚伦和我必连在一起，直到我们死的日子。从他出生的那一天起，我们就爱着彼此，也恨着彼此。他是我内心的一部分。他现在要去广播学院，他会做得很好的。但是他来到了一个不欢迎他的世界。
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
尽可能多的知道,尤其是那些可能年轻的儿子或女儿在学院或大学,你想听到的最后一件事就是打个电话,也许你的一个孩子受伤,或者更糟的是,失去了他们的生命在一个悲惨的火在宿舍或校园住房。
Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
在我们国家的学校里，玩耍正受到攻击，而缩短课间休息时间只是问题的一部分。作业正在增加。城市正在建设没有操场的新学校。出于安全方面的考虑，学校开始禁止学生在操场上奔跑、追逐、踢足球。
I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.
我在中学的时候真的很艰难。对我来说，中学是大多数人解释高中的方式。然后在高中我有一个爆炸。我基本上做了你在高中或大学里会做的所有事情，所以退出并不难。
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.
高中的每件事似乎都是你生命中发生过的最重要的事情。它不是。你高中毕业后就再也见不到那些人了。所有那些折磨和压迫你的人从长远来看不会改变你的生活。
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
我获得了哈佛大学或普林斯顿大学的研究生奖学金。但普林斯顿奖学金要慷慨一些，因为我并没有在普特南竞赛中真正获奖……因此，普林斯顿成为了我研究生学习地点的选择。
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
展望未来，我相信，高等教育、科学、技术、研究和学术对我们的生活质量、经济实力和我们在许多方面的安全的潜在重要性将继续是最重要的信息。
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
影响我音乐的因素之一是我在布朗大学的经历。我的周围都是我非常欣赏的音乐家，他们的音乐、歌词和唱片都达到了我和那些音乐家的期望，我感到很有挑战性。
A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
这是一所真正的、诚实的、老式的寄宿学校，有相当数量的才艺以合理的价格出售，女孩子们可以被送去接受一点教育，而不用担心将来会成为天才。
I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.
我去拜访我的父亲，告诉他我要上大学，成为一名建筑师——那是我的梦想。我说，是的，我从学校毕业了，但你不是为了那个而来的。但是他所担心的是我是否需要他的钱。
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
学者们常常低估顶级体育项目的价值，因为它们有助于校园生活的发展，并为学院或大学的整体成功做出了贡献。不管你喜不喜欢，一所学院或大学的体育项目是那所大学的头版新闻。
I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.
我喜欢和那些想要实现自己梦想的孩子们一起工作，如果这就是他们大学毕业后的下一步计划的话。只有极少数人有这样的机会，所以当你有机会的时候，你知道，那些人会利用这个机会。
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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。
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。
One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.
我喜欢执教大学球的最大原因之一是孩子们。我觉得我可以影响球员的生活。我喜欢他们是学生运动员这个事实。我希望看到那些孩子毕业。
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.
信用卡公司慷慨地支付给大学生，让他们站在餐厅、宿舍和学术大楼外面，并鼓励他们的同学申请信用卡。
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
长期以自我导向方式工作的学者们，可能尤其容易拖延:调查显示，绝大多数大学生都在拖延，有关拖延症的文献中的文章常常暗指作者自己在完成作品时遇到的问题。