SAT scores began dropping in 1963; today, on average, 30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.
SAT分数从1963年开始下降；今天，平均有30%的学生没有在四年内完成高中学业，这一数字在贫穷的城市社区达到了50%。
That afternoon, in the bus on the way back to school, Emma sat next to Julia, her new friend.
那天下午，在回学校的公共汽车上，艾玛坐在她的新朋友茱莉亚旁边。
Every lunch hour, after arriving at his new school, Sam sat alone in the dining hall.
到了新学校后，每到午饭时间，萨姆就一个人坐在食堂里。
One day, as Myra sat alone on the way to school, she looked at the seat across from her.
一天，在上学的路上，迈拉独自一人坐着，看着对面的座位。
I sat in the same seat every day on the school bus, just in front of Jessica and Cory.
在校车上，我每天都坐在同一个座位上，就在杰西卡和科里的前面。
Nevertheless, this whole obsession, which my girls seem to share with all their female school and creche friends, is one that has always sat rather uneasily with me.
尽管如此，每每当我察觉到我的孩子们和她们在女子学校和托儿所的所有朋友，几乎无一例外地追逐着这股狂热，我真是忧心忡忡。
Studies have shown that females scored lower on the SAT than males, but overall women have better grades in high school and college.
有研究显示，女生在SAT中取得的成绩比男生低，但总的来说女生在高中和大学里的成绩都比男生好。
Get good grades in all subjects and good SAT scores (i.e. don't get too narrowly focused on physics) so you can be admitted to a top school, such as Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech.
尽量在所有科目都取得好名次和测试分数(即不要过于狭窄的仅仅关注于物理学)，这样你才能被最好的学校承认，诸如哈佛、普林斯顿、斯坦福、麻省理工、加州理工。
He'd never been any good at school (he just sat there, drawing tractors), but he could cost things in his head with no trouble.
他上学时从没有任何优异的表现(他只是坐在那里画拖拉机)，但是他可以毫不费力地估计出在他脑子里的任何东西的价值。
On a recent afternoon Osbaldo Hernandez, 18, sat beaming in the college counsellors' office of Hancock High School.
近日的一个午后，十八岁的奥斯巴尔多·赫尔南·德兹坐在汉考克高中学校辅导员办公室里，脸上洋溢着灿烂的笑容。
At a kids' school near City Hall, students sat enraptured on a Saturday afternoon, watching our mascot Roddy explain a grammar point.
周六下午，在市政厅附近的一所学校，孩子们兴高采烈地坐在那里，听我们的吉祥物罗迪(Roddy)讲解一个语法知识点。
My mother, who had studied at a French school in Istanbul, sat us down at the empty dining-room table every morning that summer and tried to teach us French.
我母亲在伊斯坦布尔的一所法语学校学习过。那个夏天，她每天早晨跟我们一起坐在空空如也的餐厅桌子旁边，尽力教我们学习法语。
After school, we sat down and discussed what happened and why I felt called to rush home, find the costume and deliver it to the teacher.
放学后，我们坐下来讨论了当天发生的事情以及为什么我那么着急的赶回家找出戏服并把它交给老师。
When she finally did leave, Madeleine sat up, readjusted her clothes, and Tim picked up his blazer and went back to high school.
等她好不容易离开房间之后，玛德琳坐了起来，整理好了自己的衣服。提姆也捡起外套，回他的高中去了。
Throughout my conversation with the deputy head, two small teenage girls in threadbare school uniforms sat watching from a brick wall by the playground.
在我与那位副校长的谈话过程中，两名小女孩穿着破旧的校服，坐在操场旁边的砖墙看着我们。
In tenth grade, for a school project, Patty sat in on two trials that her dad was part of.
帕蒂上十年级的时候，为了完成作业，她两次旁听了她爸爸有份出庭的审判。
Like high-school seniors waiting on their SAT results, the monkeys wanted to know, and they wanted to know right now.
正如高中毕业生等待他们的高考成绩时那样，猴子想知道，他们现在就想。
I believe that SAT tests should not be the most -important criteria for acceptance into a school.
我认为SAT考试并不应该成为录取过程中最重要的标准。
At 11 on my first day of Secondary school I was so nervous but at lunch time he came to find me, and we sat down and ate lunch together.
11岁时上中学的第一天我是如此紧张，但在午餐时他来找我和我坐在一起吃饭。
And focus, friends, is what you need to be able to study for any of the big tests, from the LSAT and MCAT to the SAT and ACT to just your average test in school.
朋友们，我们需要学习集中注意力来为一系列考试来做准备，不管是法学院入学考试、医学院入学考试、学业能力倾向测验还是平时在学校的测验。
When I got a leter from the school, which was mot a solid rejection, saying my SAT score did not reach the minimum for allowable admission, I began lose hope.
但我受到学校来信的时候，我开始失去希望了，信中说我的SAT分数没有达到最低录取分数线，但并没有一口拒绝。
My high school sat on six acres on the north side of town near the dog shelter and the beer distributor.
我的高中占地6公亩，在镇的北侧，靠近狗庇护所和啤酒分发部。
Jane's parents sat through the first part of the school concert, waiting to hear their daughter sing.
简的父母为了等着听女儿演唱，在学校音乐会上坚持到上半场演出结束。
And these qualities matter more to ultimate success than SAT prep courses in high school or what college your children go to.
这些品质对于孩子最终的成功至关重要，远远超过高中的SAT预科课程和读哪所的大学。
Two years ago, when I was busy for preparing the SAT and TOFEL, my teacher asked me to take part in a dance team in school competitions.
两年前，当我正忙着准备SAT和TOFEL考试，我的老师叫我参加一个舞蹈队在学校比赛。
Very average SAT scores, you know, right in the middle of my high school class of 900.
非常一般的学测考试（SAT）成绩， 就是说，在我的高中那一届900 人的正中间。
Since March, Ms. Glickman, like many of her classmates, has been attending an after-school SAT preparation course designed to boost scores for the important test in the fall.
自3月份起，格利克曼跟很多同学一样，参加课后的SAT预备课程，这些课程是为秋季的重要考试冲刺而设置的。
Since March, Ms. Glickman, like many of her classmates, has been attending an after-school SAT preparation course designed to boost scores for the important test in the fall.
自3月份起，格利克曼跟很多同学一样，参加课后的SAT预备课程，这些课程是为秋季的重要考试冲刺而设置的。
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