From there, after high school, I went to New York University. I completed bachelors of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies and political science.
从那里,高中毕业后,我去了纽约大学。我完成了中东和伊斯兰研究以及政治科学的学士学位。
When I grew older and went to a middle school, I began to read novels, plays, essays and so on.
当我长大了,上了中学,我开始读小说、戏剧、散文等等。
Like most students, when studying at middle school, I found math interesting but difficult, which was a challenge for me.
像大多数学生一样,读中学时,我觉得数学虽有趣但很难,这对我来说是一个挑战。
On a hot day many years ago my the-middle school daughter Emily, one of the most optimistic people I know, was paddling with me in a cardboard boat race.
数年前一个炎热的日子里,我那上中学的女儿艾米丽——我所认识的最乐观的人之一,和我一起参加划纸板船比赛。
When I was in junior middle school, I was so poor in my studies that I nearly gave up.
我上初中的时候学习非常差,差到我几乎快放弃学习了。
When I entered middle school, my dream was to open a restaurant.
当我进入中学时,我的梦想是开一家餐厅。
I am a middle school teacher and didn't know how to face kids.
我是一名中学老师,不知道该怎么面对孩子。
I always dreamed of having a middle school education.
上中学是我一直的梦想。
I got to know David on the second day of middle school.
在中学的第二天我认识了戴维。
I have organized different kinds of activities both in the middle school and at the college.
我在中学和大学都组织过各种各样的活动。
My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.
我的纳税打工生涯始于中学时期,当时,我在一家烘焙工厂工作了整整三天。
By the time we got to middle school, it was clear that my older brother preferred meditation, while I was a born performer who preferred the theatrical, even when off stage.
到我们上中学的时候,很明显,我哥哥更喜欢冥想,而我是一个天生的表演者,更喜欢戏剧,即使在舞台下也是这样。
When I went over to the middle and high schools, the school environment encouraged me to use more English than Chinese and thus my English improved dramatically thereafter.
在读初中和高中时,学校的环境鼓励我使用更多的英语,从那以后,我的英语显著提高。
For example, in looking at survey data on the health behavior of middle and high school students, the factor I found that best predicted whether or not a kid was obese was tooth brushing.
譬如说,在观察了一份有关中学生和大学生健康行为的调查后,我发现一个孩子是否肥胖的最佳预知方法是看刷牙。
When I was a kid there were only three TV stations and it was black and white until I was in middle-school.
当我还是个孩子的时候,直到我上中学,家里都只有三台黑白电视机。
Until to the middle school day, I started to learn that study is the only thing I have to do, but I don't know why I have to study.
直至中学,我明白了学习是我唯一要做的事情,虽然我不知道为什么而学习。
And I actually almost got expelled from school once because I openly expressed how repressed I felt in the middle of the principals' office.
当我还是这个年纪的时候,也觉得时刻受到压制,无法为这个世界做些什么,甚至因为公开表达在校长室里感到压抑而被逐出了学校。
Today I go to school I saw the American flag is in the middle of the flagpole.
今天,我看到了学校里的美国国旗降了半旗。
I've mostly forgotten characters I learned in middle and high school and I tend to forget the characters I only occasionally use.
有些初高中学的和不常用的字我几乎都忘了怎么写了。
But I sometimes talk with my friends about whether it has been worth it — we made so much effort in college and now I earn less than some of my classmates who did not advance past middle school.
我们在大学很努力,现在挣得却没有一些没上完中学的同学多。
When I was in the middle of my career at graduate school, my tuition suddenly ran out and I had to drop out.
当我在研究生院的学业进行到中期的时候,我的学费突然用完了,我不得不放弃了学业。
And then I had another thought, I thought about something I heard one of my teachers say when I was in middle-school.
随后,我又有了另一种想法,我想起来在我上中学的时候一位老师说过的话。
Ten years ago I wrote a novel in which a middle-school student, delivering a speech before Parliament, says: "This country has everything." You can find whatever you want here.
十年前,我在一部小说中曾描述过一个中学生在议会演讲中说:“这个国家什么都不缺,就是缺乏希望之心”。
Other teachers that I went with taught middle-school age students, high-school aged students, and even one class of English teachers and very advanced students.
和我一起在那里教书的其他(外籍)教师则有教初中生的,有高中生的,甚至还给(当地的)英语老师及很高水平的学生上课。
I wore it to school, but took it off in the middle of the day, put it in my backpack and never looked back.
我戴着它到学校,在中间脱下来,把它放在书包里,再也没有回头。
The funny thing is that when I look at photos from my middle school cross-country days, I see that I stuck my elbows out too much as a 12-year-old runner, too.
有趣的是,当我浏览我中学越野赛那天的照片时,我发现我的双肘摆得太开就像一个12岁的新手。
The funny thing is that when I look at photos from my middle school cross-country days, I see that I stuck my elbows out too much as a 12-year-old runner, too.
有趣的是,当我浏览我中学越野赛那天的照片时,我发现我的双肘摆得太开就像一个12岁的新手。
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