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But the sons and daughters want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value.
但這些孩子卻想主修歷史、古典文學、哲學這些沒有“現(xiàn)實”價值的專業(yè)。
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And with good cause: Today, Grafton informs us, only one-third of all undergraduates major in the arts and sciences, and less than one-third of them in the humanities.
格拉夫頓告訴我們，今天所有大學在校生中只有三分之一主修藝術和社會科學，而其中更只有不到三分之一主修人文科學。
They walk into a university already feeling guilty that they don’t know what they want to major in, or what their career path is going to be.
如果他們不知道自己想要學習什么專業(yè)或者不清楚自己將來的職業(yè)道路，走在大學里就已經(jīng)讓他們有一種負罪感。

But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the only leader from a major industrial nation in the Group of Eight.
I want you to talk about them. But I don't expect you to become an English major in order to do that if you're not already one.
我不指望你因為要讀這些而主修英語,如果你們現(xiàn)在主修的并不是英語的話。
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I was a psychology major in undergrad, and really thought that I wanted to be a counselor.
我本科學習心理學專業(yè)，我那時很希望自己將來能夠成為一名心理輔導員。
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