By contrast, when iversities mostly recruit locally, well-known campuses can coast along, knowing they have a brand that can hardly be challenged.

对比之下，当大学几乎全招本地学生的时候，这些名校因为知道自己优势明显，无人能及，因而不思进取了。

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Many, known as stick men, loiter on the streets carrying bamboo poles used for lugging loads up the hilly streets (so steep that pedal-driven vehicles are hardly to be seen).

许多挑夫带着竹竿在街上徘徊，他们用竹竿把重物搬上多坡的街道（这些街道如此陡峭，脚踏交通工具都很少见）。

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I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here.

我希望认识一些比康科德这片土地上出生的更要聪明的人，他们的名字在这里几乎听都没有听到过。

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By contrast, when universities mostly recruit locally, well-known campuses can coast along, knowing they have a brand that can hardly be challenged.

ECONOMIST: Higher education

This protein (a member of a group called the lectins, that is being tested for insecticidal properties) was already known to be bad for the immune system, so its effect on the rats would hardly have been a surprise to anyone with a knowledge of the field.

ECONOMIST: Potato-heads