Because of Maria's talent for tennis at an early age, she had to give up school and look elsewhere for an education.

玛利亚在很小的时候就已经具备了很高的网球天分，为此她放弃了学业，为网球找寻更适合的教育。

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You'd think that given the spiraling cost of college, American students would jump at the chance to finish up school in three years instead of the typical four.

你考虑过由于大学学费的增长，美国的学生会抓紧用在校3年就完成学业，而不是以往的4年时间。

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Girls from poor families can miss up to a week of school each month because they do not have enough money for supplies.

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I was one of those kids, and I remember rather vividly walking through the hall way of my high school having people split me, call me names, threaten to beat me up.

我还清楚地记得有这么一个孩子,穿过我所在的高中的大厅,让周围的人朝我吐痰，骂脏话，威胁着要把我狠狠打一顿。

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I'm generally pretty impressed by what the, what my classmates have gotten up to before they came to school here.

我的同学在入学之前已经完成的事情让我印象深刻。

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Their 17-year-old son has given up school to find odd jobs to sustain the family.

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The Duke of Edinburgh award scheme is a different matter, as it has 4 parts including service to the community, and the participation in this does not use up school time on the whole, and I support this movement whole-heartedly.

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This is not in the article but was tweeted at me by Ashk4n and may provide further reason to read the piece: At a Start-up School talk last month, Palantir co-founder Stephen Cohen bragged about how his pattern-finding start-up makes grizzled government types turn into giddy teenagers ( 15:00 min mark).

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