Virtue
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
获取研究生学位多年以后，我回到位于宾翰顿的纽约州立大学当教员。一天，电梯里很拥挤，有人抱怨电梯效率太低。我说自我在那里当学生起，20年来电梯一直没有换过。
最后当电梯门打开时，我感到有人在我的背上同情地拍了一下，回过头来我看到一位年长的修女正在朝我微笑。“你会拿到学位的，亲爱的，”她低声说道：“坚持不懈是一种美德。”
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."
区 别
“研究生班和本科生很容易就能区别开来，”在洛杉矶加利福利亚州立大学给我们研究生上工程学课的老师如此说。“我说‘下午好’，本科生们回答说‘下午好’。研究生们则把我说的话记在笔记本上。” 未命名 回答采纳率: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
一个老人坐在公交车上，手里拿着一束鲜花。旁边的一个年轻女孩眼睛不停地注视着那人手中的花。老人要下车了，他没有多想，把鲜花扔到女孩的腿上，“我看得出你很喜欢这些花。”他说道，“我想我妻子一定会很高兴我告诉她我把花送给你。”这女孩收下了这束花，接着看见这老人下车走向一个坟墓。