If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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A mother flog her son until he's unconscious didn't seem too credible.

一个母亲把儿子打至不省人事实在让人难以置信,其他关于准确性的不满。

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He left Yale when he didn't get tenure, moved to Harvard, didn't get tenure there too.

他没有得到终身聘用，所以离开了耶鲁，去了哈佛，也没有受到终身聘用。

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