You know, there's not a lot of time left for magical
沒什么時間留給魔法領域了
And so, you know, kind of, you know,
因此 正如我們之前說的
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
保持相對平衡就不會運轉失常
But Merlin starts off, and I guess we're about out of time
我想我們的時間快要到了
Merlin starts off, complaining about the excess of concern for athletics
梅林開始抱怨這種對體育運動的過分狂熱
And says the craze for games is the room for scholarship
他說這種對游戲的狂熱應該讓位于對學問的追求
And nobody got scholarships like they used to, when he was a boy
沒有人像他兒時那樣渴求知識了
I think there's always a little bit of feeling about, you know,
我想 關于這點我們都有些體會
people aren't well educated as they used to be
教育不再像以前那樣好了
I just kind find, how things changed
我剛剛發現這一點
They are just curious on what is considered modern
他們對于深思熟慮的現代人感到好奇
My wife is a professor of Spanish in my department
我的妻子是我們系的西班牙語教授
And she and I both taught last fall,
去年秋天我們同時上課
we both taught graduate level evening classes
都是在晚上給研究生上課
on the fall of the same night,
在一個秋天的晚上
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
我們在回家的路上停下來
and just pick up something for dinner
為晚餐采購一點食材
Because its 7-7:30 when we we're going home
我們回家的時間大約是晚上7點到7點半
and we stop at different places, we stopped at the subway one night
我們走走停停 然后進了Subway
And we went in, the cash register wasn't working right,
但當我們準備付款時
when we got to the check-out
收銀機壞掉了
And my wife is younger than I am, she'd say she's way younger than I am
我的妻子比我年輕 至少她認為她活得比我年輕
But we got to the check-out but it wasn't working,
我們重新付款 但它還是不能用
so the young kid tried to ring us a couple of times
收銀員嘗試了兩下之后說
And "I just can't make this work, I'll do it the old fashion way "
"這個壞掉了 看來我只能用老辦法了"
And we laughed in the car about this later
之后我們在車上大笑了一場
Cause we both in our brain envisioned taking out a piece of paper,
因為當我們同時想象他拿出一張紙
multiplying whatever taxes in Springfield 6.43729, whatever, times your math
開始用斯普林菲爾德的6.43729的稅率進行計算時
He took a calculator out of his pocket, the "old fashion way"
他從口袋里拿出了"老辦法"計算器
So we kinda laughed, we didn't obviously get far,
我們都笑了 這節課我們并沒有進展太多
we didn't get to page 85 uh, we're only in 57
沒有到85頁 只到了57頁
And so to get an idea we covered about 34 pages today
所以我們今天學習了34頁
So why don't take you try to take over to whatever is a logical break
你們在休息的時候不妨接著看下去
here about a hundred where the chapter ends,
一直到100頁這章結束
what do we say a hundred and three?
哦 103頁如何
A hundred and three
那就103頁
See you next time
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