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But the sons and daughters want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value.
但這些孩子卻想主修歷史、古典文學(xué)、哲學(xué)這些沒有“現(xiàn)實(shí)”價(jià)值的專業(yè)。
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And with good cause: Today, Grafton informs us, only one-third of all undergraduates major in the arts and sciences, and less than one-third of them in the humanities.
格拉夫頓告訴我們，今天所有大學(xué)在校生中只有三分之一主修藝術(shù)和社會(huì)科學(xué)，而其中更只有不到三分之一主修人文科學(xué)。
They walk into a university already feeling guilty that they don’t know what they want to major in, or what their career path is going to be.
如果他們不知道自己想要學(xué)習(xí)什么專業(yè)或者不清楚自己將來的職業(yè)道路，走在大學(xué)里就已經(jīng)讓他們有一種負(fù)罪感。

But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the only leader from a major industrial nation in the Group of Eight.
I want you to talk about them. But I don't expect you to become an English major in order to do that if you're not already one.
我不指望你因?yàn)橐x這些而主修英語(yǔ),如果你們現(xiàn)在主修的并不是英語(yǔ)的話。
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I was a psychology major in undergrad, and really thought that I wanted to be a counselor.
我本科學(xué)習(xí)心理學(xué)專業(yè)，我那時(shí)很希望自己將來能夠成為一名心理輔導(dǎo)員。
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