长难句释义

1. … I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. (Para. 1)

2. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. (Para. 2)

3. That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education. (Para. 2)

4. “For the rest of your life,” I said, “your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours.” (Para. 4)

5. You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence. (Para. 5)

6. Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children. (Para. 5)

7. They will be your income, and may it always suffice. (Para. 5)

8. “I hope you make a lot of it, ” I told him, “because you’re going to be badly stuck for something to do when you’re not signing checks.” (Para. 8)

9. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of man’s development we call history—then you have no business being in college. (Para. 9)

10. If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. (Para. 12)

11. … when I say that a university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include. (Para. 14)