《赢得比赛：穿过美国黑人危机》一书的作者约翰·麦克·沃特(John McWhorter语言学家——注)提出，对黑人申请生降低标准同时也削弱了他们学而优的动力。

John McWhorter, the author of "Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in black America", argues that lowering the bar for blacks also reduces their incentive to excel at school.

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厄当先生从哥伦比亚大学毕业，并完成关于语言学的毕业论文，同时研究俄语、德语、拉丁语、希腊语、梵语和波兰语。

Mr. Urdang graduated from Columbia and did graduate work there in linguistics, studying Russian, German, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Polish.

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许多到特拉华大学的学生预计要学几个月的英语课程，但结束时在语言学院已经学了一年或更多的时间，同时每学期（八周）要交$2850。

Many arrive at Delaware expecting to take English classes for just a few months, but end up spending a year or more at the language institute, paying $2,850 per eight-week session.

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This is what he says in this first passage. He says: If we study speech from several viewpoints simultaneously, the object of linguistics appears to us as a confused mass of heterogeneous and unrelated things.

这也是他在第一篇文章里说的话：,我们同时从几个角度读这篇文章，这时语言学乱的像一锅粥,没有系统毫无关联性。

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