I thought graduate teaching assistants will automatically put on the payroll at the beginning of the semester.

我原以为研究生助教会在学期开始时自动进入发放工资的名单。

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Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both.

在美国学习的研究生经常担任助教的工作。助教可以挣钱或免费上课，或两者兼而有之。

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In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

在一些规模较大的大学里，研究生，也就是助教，经常来组织讨论。

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In a typical semester, about a dozen Cornell faculty members and graduate students make the two hour round trip to teach the courses, aided by 40-50 undergraduate teaching assistants.

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