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"But having finished the day's work, what do you do with those other eight hours? Let's say you go home to your family.
“但完成一天的工作后，剩下的8小時(shí)你做什么呢？比如說你可以回家，和你的家人呆在一起。
What sort of family are you raising? Will the children ever be exposed to a reasonably penetrating idea at home?
你所供養(yǎng)的是一個(gè)什么樣的家庭呢？孩子們?cè)诩依锬芙佑|到一點(diǎn)還算是精辟的思想嗎？
Will you be presiding over a family that maintains some contact with the great democratic intellect?
身為一家之主，你能讓你的家人對(duì)偉大的民主思想有所了解嗎？
Will there be a book in the house? Will there be a painting a reasonably sensitive man can look at without shuddering? Will the kids ever get to hear Bach?"
家里有書嗎？會(huì)有一幅能讓一個(gè)有一定鑒賞力的人看了不至于不寒而栗的畫嗎？孩子們有機(jī)會(huì)聽到巴赫的音樂嗎？”
That is about what I said, but this particular pest was not interested.
我當(dāng)時(shí)大概就說了這些，但這個(gè)討厭鬼不感興趣。
"Look," he said, "you professors raise your kids your way; I'll take care of my own. Me, I'm out to make money."
他說：“你看，你們這些教授用你們的方法培養(yǎng)孩子；我會(huì)以我自己的方式撫養(yǎng)我自己的孩子。我呀，我會(huì)盡一切努力掙錢的。”
"I hope you make a lot of it," I told him, "because you're going to be badly stuck for something to do when you're not signing checks."
“我希望你能賺很多，”我告訴他，“因?yàn)槟阍陂_支票的余暇會(huì)愁沒事干的。”
Fourteen years later I am still teaching, and I am here to tell you that the business of the college is not only to train you,
14年后的今天，我仍然在教書，在此我要告訴你們，大學(xué)的職責(zé)并不只是在于培訓(xùn)你，
but to put you in touch with what the best human minds have thought.
它還要使你接觸人類思想的精髓。
If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of man's development we call history—
如果你沒時(shí)間看莎士比亞的作品，沒時(shí)間看哲學(xué)入門，沒時(shí)間欣賞藝術(shù)的存續(xù)，也沒時(shí)間學(xué)習(xí)我們稱之為歷史的人類發(fā)展的課程——
then you have no business being in college.
那么你就沒有必要呆在大學(xué)里了。
You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal.
你正在變?yōu)槟欠N新型的機(jī)械化的野蠻人，那種只會(huì)按按鈕的尼安德特原始人。
Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them—without making contact.
我們大學(xué)的畢業(yè)生里不可避免有不少這樣的行尸走肉；但是我們不能說他們上過大學(xué)，只能說大學(xué)曾存在于他們的生活——卻沒能留下任何痕跡。
