His mother shook her head and wondered aloud whether life would be easier if he just let the science fair thing drop.

他的母亲摇着头说，她真想知道，如果科学展览会比赛的事情没有发生，是否他的日子会更容易些。

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Drop-out rates in some subjects are shocking: the Royal Society reckons that half of maths and science teachers leave within five years of starting their training.

有些课程，其成功培养教师的失败率大的惊人：英国皇家化学学会称，有半数的数学与物理老师在上任后的五年内辞职走人。

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"We were looking to do something else, when we saw life is not the way we expected it to be," Lyons said. "The most exciting discoveries in science sometimes just drop in your lap.

“当我们发现生活和我们预期的不一样时，我们就会尝试着去做些改变，”里昂说到，“科学中的令人振奋的发现有很多都是偶然的。

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Apparently, quite a few of his best students drop computer science at A-level because top universities are still sniffy about it.

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But the work is far from over, according to Savkar who says that some studies show that 40% of college students studying science drop the major by the end of their freshman year.

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People training to be science, maths or ICT teachers were more likely to drop out too, the researchers said.

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