took freshman chemistry, because we had to, not because we wanted to.

我就像现在你们很多人一样，在第一年选化学课。

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the first year I was here, I was living like a block away from school.

在这里的第一年我住在离学校一条街的地方。

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My son,when he was in Seconde, which is the first year of French high school, they were out blocking traffic until some angry driver rolled over the foot of a protestor and then everybody kind of went off and ate pizza.

我的儿子,他高一,也就是法国高中的第一年,他们堵住交通,直到一个愤怒的司机压过一个抗议者的脚,他们才散开回去吃披萨

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So in my first year, I took math, I took English, I took architecture.

所以在第一年里，我上了数学、英语、建筑方面的课。

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but I think the first year, you have to live in the dorm.

不过我想大概本科第一年必须住宿舍。

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