Civic 城市的,市民的
Loaf 虛度光陰
Enlighten 啟發,開導
Humility 謙遜,謙恭
Clarity 清晰,明晰
Limelight 焦點,眾人注目的中心
Mentor 導師,顧問
Lament 哀悼,痛惜
Skewed: 偏離的,歪曲的
It's not suggesting that students drop classes for the woods, but it's important to remember that ideas on success vary, even in these enlightened times.
在寫作中,有時為了表達某一觀點是大家都認同的,可以用it's suggestes that 這類句型。用it做形式主語,后接賓語從句。類似的句型還有it's believed that…, it's supposed that…等.
Not a bad legacy for a failure.
這句話的正常語序為a failure is not a bad legacy. 文章中把not a bad legacy提前,處理成不帶賓語的省略句,簡潔命明了。這類的句子在口語中很普遍,平時顆多關注和積累。