重点讲解:
1. follow through
完成;进行到底;
eg. I was trained to be an actress but I didn't follow it through.
我接受过演员培训,但是我没有坚持下去。
eg. He decided to follow through with his original plan.
他决定把最初的计划执行到底。
2. get into
获准(入学);被录取;
eg. I was working hard to get into Cambridge.
我为能上剑桥大学而刻苦学习。
eg. I will study hard and try to get into a law school.
我会努力学习争取上一所法律学校。
3. commensurate with
(比例)相当的,相称的;
eg. Employees are paid salaries commensurate with those of teachers.
给员工的薪水与老师拿的薪水相当。
eg. Her low salary is not commensurate with her abilities.
她的薪水很低,与她的能力不相称。
背景资料:
巴纳德学院(Barnard College)是美国的一所私立女子文理学院,七姐妹学院之一。创建于1889年,1900年起并入哥伦比亚大学,但仍保有独立的董事会与财政机构,而学士学位则由哥伦比亚大学授予。学校位于纽约曼哈顿晨边高地,占地面积约四英亩。校名则是以原哥伦比亚学院(现哥伦比亚大学)院长费雷德里克·巴纳德(Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard)的名字命名的。
名人经典:
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world, that comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wilder world who need my help.
生活在这个世界上,我的幸福感和目标来自于富有感情地研究这个世界,来自于对工作的热情与投入,来自于保持敏锐与活泼,与所爱的人保持联系,以及接触更广阔世界里需要我帮助的人。