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Lesson28 You Can Be a Super-Achiever
你也能成為頂級的學生
Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV sitcoms and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull grinds, their noses always stuck in a book. They're klutzes at sports and dweebs when it comes to the opposite sex.
每個人都知道學習成績全優的學生，他們經常出現在電視情景喜劇和如《鬼馬校園》這樣的電影里。是的，他們成績很優秀，但同時也成了書呆子，整天腦袋都鉆在書本里。他們不擅長體育運動，在與異性交往方面也是呆頭呆腦的。
How, then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres?
那么，如何解釋多米尼加洛曼和保羅米倫德里斯呢？
Roman is on the tennis team at senior high school. She also sings in the choral ensemble, serves on the student council and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average, meaning A's in every subject.
洛曼是所在高中的校網球隊隊員，她還是合唱團的成員，在學生會任職，還是數學協會的會員。兩年來，她每門課的平均成績保持在四分，也就是每門課得到的都是A。
Melendres, now a freshman at university, was student - body president when he was at high school. He played varsity soccer and junior-varsity basketball, exhibited at the science fair, was chosen for the national association of student councils and did student commentaries on a local television station.
米倫德里斯現在是大學一年級的學生，在中學時是學生會主席。他是大學足球隊和大學籃球二隊的隊員，參加過科學展覽會，被選為全國學生聯合會會員，在地方電視臺做過學生評論員。
Valedictorian of his class, he achieved a GPA of 4.4-straight A's in his regular classes, plus bonus points for A's in two college-level honours courses.
他是他們班致告別詞的學生代表，每門課的平均成績為四點四分，主課都是A，還有兩門大學預修課程得A后的加分。
How do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren't the only answer. "Top grades don't always go to the brightest students," declares the experts of education who have conducted major studies of super-achieving students.
像洛曼和米倫德里斯這樣的頂級學生是如何成功的呢？智力不是唯一的答案。“高分的學生并不都是最聰明的學生，”對頂級學生做過重要研究的教育專家這樣說。
"Knowing how to make the most of your innate abilities counts for more. Infinitely more."
“知道如何充分利用你的內在能力更為重要，并且這一點要重要的多。”
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sitcom 情景喜劇nerd 討厭的人, 卑微的人grind 用功的學生, 書呆子klutz 笨手笨腳的人,不善交際的人dweeb 勢利小人choral 合唱隊的ensemble 合唱團varsity 大學代表隊的valedictorian 致告別詞的學生代表
