初级职员得到终身职位的机会十分渺茫。

Junior staff have only a slim chance of getting tenure.

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大学也将终身职位的教授转变为非终身职员。

Universities are replacing tenure-track professors with non-tenured staff.

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我说，那么我是一个有终身职位的计算机科学教授。

And I said, well I'm a tenured professor of computer science.

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And then he went to those who didn't get tenure and asked them, ?" "How are you feeling?"

然后他去找没得到终身职位的并问，“你们感觉如何“

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So what he did was go to professors who were just before either getting the tenure decision: so either they were going to get the tenure or not.

他所做的是去访问,接受终身职位审核前的教授：,他们要么得到要么得不到。

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