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托福考试成绩下来了，我考了一个相当满意的分数，更让我高兴的是，我可以很轻松地选择我想要去的大学了，很多人也许会对选哪所大学而感到迷茫，而我心中的理想大学却一直从未变过。
1.Have you decided which university you are going to apply for postgraduate?
你定下来填报哪一所大学的研究生了吗？
2.I would recommend that you enter Harvard University.
我建议你还是报哈佛大学。
3.Harvard University is stronger in business management.
哈佛大学在商务管理方面比较强。
4.Princeton University is my frst choice.
普林斯顿大学是我的首选。
5.My mother wants me to apply for Harvard University but my father wants me to go to Yale University.
我妈妈想让我选哈佛大学而我爸爸想让我申请耶鲁大学。
6.I believe I can achieve my dream at Columbia University.
我相信我能实现去哥伦比亚大学的梦想。
7.My grades didn't reach the fractional line of Boston University.
我的成绩没有达到波士顿大学的录取分数线。
My Chance is Slim.我的机会很小。
Jasmine：What are your chances of getting into Harvard?
Mary：My chance is slim.
Jasmine：I hear those Ivy league colleges are diffcult to get into.
Mary：I know. I'd have a better chance at the State University.
Jasmine：Sure. It's not a bad school, either.
Mary：I'd rather be a big fsh in a small pond.
茉莉：你进哈佛的机会如何？
玛丽：我的机会很小。
茉莉：我听说那些常青藤盟校很难进。
玛丽：我知道。我进州立大学的机会大一点。
茉莉：当然。那个学校也不坏。
玛丽：我宁可做小池塘里面的大鱼。
Note注释
league n.同盟，联盟pond n.池塘
比尔·盖茨在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的讲话
You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had.You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have.And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort.You have more than we had；you must start sooner, and carry on longer.Knowing what you know, how could you not?
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and refect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities……on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
参考译文
各位毕业生们，你们生在了一个不平凡的时代。在你们离开哈佛的时候，你们掌握了我们毕业时尚未发明的技术。你们了解了世界的不公平，我们当时对这些还知之甚少。因为你们知道了事实，如果对那些你们能帮助的人们漠不关心，可能会受到良心的谴责，只需一点小小的努力，你们就可以改变他们的生活。比起我们，你们拥有更强的能力；你们必须尽快行动起来，尽可能地坚持下去。知道了这一切，你们怎能不采取行动呢？
希望30年后你们还会重返哈佛，回想你们曾经用自己的天赋和能力所做的一切。希望那时，你们评价自己的标准，不仅是你们的专业成就，还包括你们为改变这个世界的极端不平等所做出的努力，以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水，与你们素昧平生的人们，他们与你们唯一的共同点就是同为人类。