Efforts to strengthen math and science education come at a time when 15-year-old U.S.students rank 25th in math literacy and 30th in science literacy -- among the 57 countries participating in the Program for International Student Assessment.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

And response back is "Well, yes, we had people at the table, but they were Oxford educated and they didn't represent the rank-and-file people in my culture."

而他们得到的回应是,“是的，的确如此，可是那些人读的可是牛津大学,他们并不能代表,我们的普通民众“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She's rank, ill-tempered, pungent in all senses.

不管怎么说都粗鄙，坏脾气，刻薄。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For a driver, for instance, when I ask you to rank how good you are as a driver, what people often do is they think--they say, "I'm better than average," but what they do is they focus on one aspect of their driving.

例如，拿司机来说，当我叫人们给自己的开车技术打个分时，人们通常会认为，“我比一般人好”,但其实他们只看到了开车的一个方面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选