You know, there's not a lot of time left for magical
没什么时间留给魔法领域了
And so, you know, kind of, you know,
因此 正如我们之前说的
this get back obviously to our idea of balance of keeping things,
保持事物的平衡很重要
in some relatively of balance, so things don't get all whacked out
保持相对平衡就不会运转失常
But Merlin starts off, and I guess we're about out of time
我想我们的时间快要到了
Merlin starts off, complaining about the excess of concern for athletics
梅林开始抱怨这种对体育运动的过分狂热
And says the craze for games is the room for scholarship
他说这种对游戏的狂热应该让位于对学问的追求
And nobody got scholarships like they used to, when he was a boy
没有人像他儿时那样渴求知识了
I think there's always a little bit of feeling about, you know,
我想 关于这点我们都有些体会
people aren't well educated as they used to be
教育不再像以前那样好了
I just kind find, how things changed
我刚刚发现这一点
They are just curious on what is considered modern
他们对于深思熟虑的现代人感到好奇
My wife is a professor of Spanish in my department
我的妻子是我们系的西班牙语教授
And she and I both taught last fall,
去年秋天我们同时上课
we both taught graduate level evening classes
都是在晚上给研究生上课
on the fall of the same night,
在一个秋天的晚上
I think it's a Monday night
大概是星期一的晚上
And we just usually stop on the way home
我们在回家的路上停下来
and just pick up something for dinner
为晚餐采购一点食材
Because its 7-7:30 when we we're going home
我们回家的时间大约是晚上7点到7点半
and we stop at different places, we stopped at the subway one night
我们走走停停 然后进了Subway
And we went in, the cash register wasn't working right,
但当我们准备付款时
when we got to the check-out
收银机坏掉了
And my wife is younger than I am, she'd say she's way younger than I am
我的妻子比我年轻 至少她认为她活得比我年轻
But we got to the check-out but it wasn't working,
我们重新付款 但它还是不能用
so the young kid tried to ring us a couple of times
收银员尝试了两下之后说
And "I just can't make this work, I'll do it the old fashion way "
"这个坏掉了 看来我只能用老办法了"
And we laughed in the car about this later
之后我们在车上大笑了一场
Cause we both in our brain envisioned taking out a piece of paper,
因为当我们同时想象他拿出一张纸
multiplying whatever taxes in Springfield 6.43729, whatever, times your math
开始用斯普林菲尔德的6.43729的税率进行计算时
He took a calculator out of his pocket, the "old fashion way"
他从口袋里拿出了"老办法"计算器
So we kinda laughed, we didn't obviously get far,
我们都笑了 这节课我们并没有进展太多
we didn't get to page 85 uh, we're only in 57
没有到85页 只到了57页
And so to get an idea we covered about 34 pages today
所以我们今天学习了34页
So why don't take you try to take over to whatever is a logical break
你们在休息的时候不妨接着看下去
here about a hundred where the chapter ends,
一直到100页这章结束
what do we say a hundred and three?
哦 103页如何
A hundred and three
那就103页
See you next time
下次见