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But the sons and daughters want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value.
但這些孩子卻想主脩歷史、古典文學、哲學這些沒有“現實”價值的專業。
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And with good cause: Today, Grafton informs us, only one-third of all undergraduates major in the arts and sciences, and less than one-third of them in the humanities.
格拉夫頓告訴我們，今天所有大學在校生中衹有三分之一主脩藝術和社會科學，而其中更衹有不到三分之一主脩人文科學。
They walk into a university already feeling guilty that they don’t know what they want to major in, or what their career path is going to be.
如果他們不知道自己想要學習什麽專業或者不清楚自己將來的職業道路，走在大學裡就已經讓他們有一種負罪感。

But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the only leader from a major industrial nation in the Group of Eight.
I want you to talk about them. But I don't expect you to become an English major in order to do that if you're not already one.
我不指望你因爲要讀這些而主脩英語,如果你們現在主脩的竝不是英語的話。
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I was a psychology major in undergrad, and really thought that I wanted to be a counselor.
我本科學習心理學專業，我那時很希望自己將來能夠成爲一名心理輔導員。
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