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The year my aunt applied happened to be one of the girl years. She was lucky. My mother was not. 我姑妈取得的那年是女生年,她非常幸运。 My mother was faced with passage to England, room and board and living expenses, and tuition at
One day, after her husband had died, she was traveling on a train to visit her daughter, 她的丈夫去世后,她乘火车前往女儿家探望, and she met and took an interested in a light-skinned man in the same railway car. 她在火车上遇见
Ideally, they would try to be artisans. Remember, Jamaica has sugar plantations, 理想的话,他们将会成为技工。记住,牙买加有糖料种植园, which are very different from the cotton plantations you find in the American South. 这些
In 1935, for example, when my mother and her sister were four, a historian named William M. MacMillan came to visit Jamaica. 例如,在1935年,我的母亲和她的妹妹才4岁时,一个名叫威廉姆麦克米兰的历史学家访问牙买加,
it is also the tallest because no other trees block its sunlight, 还因为没有别的树木遮蔽它的阳光, because the soil around it was deep and rich, 因为树木周围的土壤肥沃而深厚; because no rabbit chewed through its bark a
He then looked at the region where the Rosetans lived. 接着,他又把思路集中在罗赛托人生活的这块区域。 Was it possible that there was something about living in the foothills of eastern Pennsylvania that was good for their health
And what happens when a player gets chosen for a rep squad? 一个球员如果能有幸进入曲棍球巡回赛,他将获得什么? He gets better coaching, 他会拥有优秀的教练、 and his teammates are better, 更出色的队友、 and he
That late-born prodigy doesn't get chosen for the all-star team as an eight year old because he's too small. 那些虽然满了8岁,但出生较晚的天才,之所以没能选进明星球队,是因为他们年龄偏小了。 So he doesn't get t
But no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. 然而,不需要花费多少时间练习,一个人的技能就达到世界水准,目前还没有这样的案例。 It seems that it takes the bra
Joy came to the University of Michigan the year the Computer Center opened, 乔伊进入密歇根大学的时候,恰逢这座计算机中心正式开放。 he was sixteen, he was tall and very thin, with a mop of unruly hair. 他当时16岁,瘦长身
If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter. 如果我们拥有更多的选择权,就会发现法定注册时间对起步者非常重要。 We can set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. 我们可以依
If you're trying to land at JFK at rush hour, there is no nonverbal communication, Greenberg says. 如果你想在一小时内在肯尼迪国际机场紧急降落,就必须用语言交流。格瑞博说, It's people talking to people, so you need
Today, weather radar has helped us a lot, he says. Weather radar has helped us a lot? 今天,气候雷达对我们提供了很大帮助。他说。气候雷达对我们提供了很大帮助? A second hint from the flight deck. What the engineer m
The Korean language has no less than six different levels of conversational address,depending on their relationship between the addressee and the addressor: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate and plain. 在韩语中,根据
The National Transportation Safety Board, the US agency responsible for investigation plane crashes, is headquartered in a squat, seventies-ear office building on the banks of Potomac River in Washington, DC. 美国国家交通安全委员会简称(
If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy. 人不缺地工,地不缺人粮。 And, then, most telling of all: No on who can rise before dawn 360 days fails to make his family rich. 这所有的这一切都在说明早起的鸟有食吃的道理。
Similarly, the pioneer of public education in Massachusetts, Horace Mann, 相似的是,马萨诸塞州的公共教育倡导者霍勒斯曼相信, believed that working students too hard would create a most pernicious influence upon character and
Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied. 我们回头再看亚力克斯威廉姆斯,这个安妮特拉里奥研究的9岁孩子, His parents believe in concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums and gets en
Renee was a nurse. She wasn't someone who had been particularly interested in mathematics in the past. 雷妮是个护士。过去,她从不像其他人那样对数学感兴趣。 But she had somehow gotten hold of the software well and was hooked.
Renee was in her mid-twenties, with long black hair and round glasses. 其中一名叫雷妮的女生给他留下了深刻的印象,雷妮大概20多岁,黑色长发,带一个银边眼镜。 In the tape, she is playing with a software program d