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[00:00.28]28. Taking Part in School Activities 
参加校园活动
[00:16.47]Nowadays, a large number of students show great interest in school activities. 
现在，许多学生对学校活动很感兴趣。
[00:22.53]In their eyes, learning from books is not the sole task of their school career. 
在他们看来，书本学习不是他们学校生活惟一的任务。
[00:29.47]They also wish to take every chance to obtain practical knowledge. 
他们愿意抓住一切机会去获得实际知识。
[00:34.18]Additionally, they find that after long hours of study, they can relax both physically and mentally by taking part in school activities.
同时，他们发现学校活动使他们可以在学习之余使自己身心放松。
[00:45.26]However, other students insist that school activities have nothing to do with their studies and they fear 
然而，还有一些学生认为学校活动跟他们的学习毫不相关，
[00:53.44]that school activities will take up too much of their time. 
他们担心学校活动会占用他们太多时间。
[00:58.09]Therefore, they would rather spend most of their time studying.
因此，他们宁愿把自己的大部分时间花在学习上。
[01:02.58]As far as I'm concerned, I think we should agree with the former group of students. 
在我看来，我认为我们应该同意前一种观点。
[01:08.42]We can learn plenty of things from the students we meet in activities. 
我们可以从我们在学校活动中遇到的同学身上学到很多东西。
[01:13.24]What's more, we can also get lots of social experience from doing so. 
而且，我们还可以从中得到许多社会经验，
[01:18.29]Such experience can never be learned by being a "book-worm".
这些都是那些“书呆子”不可能学到的。