Many years after receiving my graduate degree, I returned to the State University of New York at Binghamton as a faculty member. One day in a crowded elevator, someone remarked on its inefficiency. I said the elevators had not changed in the 20 years since I began there as a student.
When the door finally opened, I felt a compassionate pat on my back, and turned to see an elderly nun smiling at me. "You'll get that degree, dear," she whispered. "Perseverance is a virtue."
美 德
獲取研究生學位多年以後，我回到位於賓翰頓的紐約州立大學當教員。壹天，電梯裏很擁擠，有人抱怨電梯效率太低。我說自我在那裏當學生起，20年來電梯壹直沒有換過。
最後當電梯門打開時，我感到有人在我的背上同情地拍了壹下，回過頭來我看到壹位年長的修女正在朝我微笑。“妳會拿到學位的，親愛的，”她低聲說道：“堅持不懈是壹種美德。”
2. Difference
"I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class," observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at California State University in Los Angeles. "When I say, 'Good afternoon,' the undergraduates respond, 'Good afternoon." But the graduate students just write it down."
區 別
“研究生班和本科生很容易就能區別開來，”在洛杉磯加利福利亞州立大學給我們研究生上工程學課的老師如此說。“我說‘下午好’，本科生們回答說‘下午好’。研究生們則把我說的話記在筆記本上。” 未命名 回答采納率:33.3% 2009-10-06 13:28
In one seat an old man sat holding a bunch of fresh flowers. Across the aisle sat a young girl whose eyes came back again and again to the man's flowers.The time for the old man to get off.Without much thinking,he thrust the flowers into the girl's lap."I can see you love the flowers,"he explained,"and I think my wife would like for you to have them. I'll tell her I gave them to you."The girl accepted the flowers,and then watcahed the old man get off the bus and walk through the gate of a small cemetery
壹個老人坐在公交車上，手裏拿著壹束鮮花。旁邊的壹個年輕女孩眼睛不停地註視著那人手中的花。老人要下車了，他沒有多想，把鮮花扔到女孩的腿上，“我看得出妳很喜歡這些花。”他說道，“我想我妻子壹定會很高興我告訴她我把花送給妳。”這女孩收下了這束花，接著看見這老人下車走向壹個墳墓。