Her dream of being a professor was set aside.

她成为一名教授的梦想也被放置一旁。

youdao

You can still exist without being a professor.

你仍然存在，但是不再是作为教授。

youdao

I can still be alive without being a professor.

我能在不作为教授的情况下活着。

youdao

Or being a professor is a phase you can go through and then cease to be.

或者像作为教授是一段时间后会停止的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I think being a professor would be really cool.

我觉得当教授会很酷。

寻找幸福 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And all of a sudden, I moved from being a professor here, which previously had been my greatest opportunity, to leading this very large non-for-profit organization that had both national and international responsibilities.

所以突然间，我从普林斯顿的教授，这曾经是我最大的机遇，变成了这个公益组织的领导者,负有国内和国际的双重责任。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And perhaps Larry decided that being a professor looks pretty attractive.

NPR: The Pressures Of Working In The White House

But as a former university professor myself, I can say that in the years prior to this one, at least, being a professor was not the sinecure that Adams sketches in her piece, one of lazy summers, a class taught here and there, civil and collegial co-workers, and all that.

FORBES: Do College Professors Have Less Stress?

And people have defined that to mean either being a judge or being a law professor.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing