評論
打印
You have a whole hour for that
你們有一個小時
You might want to, if you have blue books sitting around
你可能愿意 如果你帶藍色的書了
You bring them
可以拿出來
I'll bring some extra white paper and a stapler,
我會拿些額外的白紙和訂書器
so that, if you want you can just take some of you old paper
你愿意的話可以拿出一些舊的紙
as long as it's not pre-written on, and we just staple them together
只要沒寫字的就行 我們把它們釘在一起
Questions about this? Yeah. No, no, no,
關于這個的問題嗎 是的 不 不 不
I didn't tell you this before,
我以前沒告訴過你這個
My adviser in graduate school, I really liked him
我在畢業學校的導師 我很喜歡他
He was a medievalist, folklorist and a PhD from Chicago, University of Chicago
他是個芝加哥的中古史學家 民俗學者和哲學博士 芝加哥大學的
He never assigned a research paper of any particular length
他從未規定任何長度的論文
People always say, well how long does this have to be?
人們總是問 這個必須要寫多長
Does this have to be, to be 20 pages, 30 pages, 40 pages?
一定要寫 20頁嗎 30頁 40頁嗎
And he said, you get your topic approved and it has to be long enough
他說 你必須要能夠證明你的論題
To do your topic
必須要足夠長來完成你論題的論述
And he said, if you're gonna tell me,
他又說 如果你要告訴我
I'm not trying to scurry your question,
我不是在匆匆忙忙完成你的問題
but if you want to tell me the house Is white,
但如果你告訴我這個房子是白色的
I don't care if it has green shutters,
我不管它是否有綠色的百葉窗
I don't care if it has a picket fence, I don't care what street it's on
我不管它是否有圍欄 我不管它在哪條街上
If you want to tell me the house is white that can be as succinct
如果你想告訴我房子是白色的
As appropriate, at the same time the admonition that
很合適很簡短 同時警告
I don't know you know anything unless you tell me
我不知道你知道什么 除非你告訴我
We don't need to suffer from diarrhea of penmanship,
我們不需要忍受書法腹瀉
but it needs to be,
但是它需要這樣
