Main Content: Early in his career, the author met a student who only wanted to learn professional knowledge and thought that other subjects were useless
Professional nouns:*university of kansas city(美国密苏里大学)
*Hamlet(莎士比亚的哈姆雷特)
The phrase:*mean to do 打算做
*reach for 设法获得
*average out 平均为
*see to it 务必,一定注意到
*stay out of sth 远离,避开某人或某事物
*preside at/over 主持,负责,指挥
*as a result of由于
*one of+形容词最高级
*point out指出
*be exposed to
*that is to say
Sentence analysis:New as I was to the faculty,I could have told this specimen怪人 a number of things.
*形容词+as/though+主语+动词/形容词
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Main Content:What a college education is about is getting students to accept the best ideas in history, not just using machines and buttons.
Fourteen years later,I am still teaching,and I am here to tell you that the business of college is not only to train you,but to put you in touch with what the best human minds have thought.
The phrase:*not only...but also
*make contact
*in order to
*cut into打断,侵犯
*in essence 本质上,基本上
*a piece of
The sentence:*For a great book is necessarily a gift:it offers you a life you have not time to live yourself
,and it takes you into a world you have not time to travel in literal time.
Main Content:University education must aim at making students experts and civilizers. All university teachers must make themselves a repository of some kind of human experience and do their best to convey that experience to their students.
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We have been aided by many people,and by many books,and by the arts,in our attempt to make ourselves some sort of storehouse of human experience.