那是我在一所新学校教的第一个学期，临近圣诞节的时候。

It was near Christmas during my first semester teaching at a new school.

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结果，他们的数学成绩在第一个学期末就超过了其他学生——在我们持续观察他们的两年中，两组学生之间的差距继续扩大。

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester — and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

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结果，他们的数学成绩在第一个学期末就超过了其他学生——在我们持续观察他们的两年中，两组学生之间的差距继续扩大。

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

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For those of you who are not from MIT, - all MIT students have to take two semesters of physics all undergraduate students. For most students this is the most rigorous exposure to physics they've ever had In the first semester of physics, they study what I think was the basic nonunion mechanics.

如果你们不是麻省理工的学生，要知道麻省理工的所有学生,所有本科生---都得学两个学期的物理,对大多数学生来说,这是他们接受的最严格的物理学习,第一个学期他们学一些,基础力学。

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You know, this, being my first semester, I'm still trying to get involved.

你知道吗，这是我来到这儿的第一个学期，所以我还在适应参与的过程中。

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