They were middle-class university students, intelligent and educated, yet they chose to kidnap and kill.

他们是中产阶级大学生，聪明而且受过教育，却选择了绑架和谋杀。

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While many students get caught up in memorizing facts, intelligent learners know to seek the bigger picture and connect the facts together. This form of learning I call holistic learning.

当许多人在死记硬背的时候，聪明的学生则在寻找将这些知识串联起来的方法，我将这种方法称为系统化学习。

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Although intelligent people in their own right, these students were surprised at certain limitations, restrictions, and arbitrary rules that programming languages had traditionally set out.

虽然这些人在自己的领域可算出类拔萃，他们还是对传统语言所有的各种局限感到诧异和不适应。

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If success in school is a function of intelligence and hard work, and less intelligent students have to work harder to achieve the same grades as their more intelligent counterparts, only hard work seems to matter in predicting career success.

FORBES: What Makes Some MBAs Wildly Successful?

They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working and quite ordinary students and teachers.

BBC: A Point of View: The Oxbridge interview

Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe testified for a third day on behalf of a school board that is defending its decision a year ago, to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution.

MSN: Intelligent design vs. stack of science books