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There you are, ladies.
女士们,注意了
The perfect likeness of a Wellesley graduate.
一个韦尔斯利学院毕业生的真实写照
Magna cum laude, doing exactly what she was trained to do.
全优的成绩， 这正是别人教她做的
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A Rhodes scholar.
领罗氏奖学金的研究生
I wonder if she recites Chaucer while she presses her husband’s shirts.
我在想是否她在替丈夫 熨衣服的时候还在背诵乔叟的诗句
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Now, you physics majors can calculate the mass and volume...
你们这些学物理的可以来计算...
of every meat loaf you make. Slide. ...
你们所做的肉面包的质量和体积 下一张
A girdle to set you free.
给你们自由的束腹
What does that mean?
那是什么意思?
What does that mean?
那是什么意思?
What does it mean?
什么意思?
I give up.
我放弃
You win.
你们赢了
The smartest women in the country.
这个国家最聪明的女性
I didn’t realize that by demanding excellence...
我以前没有认识到,为了追求卓越...
I would be challenging.... ...
我会去挑战....
What did it say?
怎么说来着的?
What did it say?
怎么说来着的?
"The roles you were born to fill."
"生来注定担当的角色"

重点解释
妙语佳句：
recite: 吟诵
例如：They recited poetry to one another.
他们互相朗诵诗歌。
All he could do was recite a list of Government failings...
他能做的只是列举政府的种种不是。

calculate:计算； 估计
例如：From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy...
由此你可以算出银河系的总质量。
I believe I am capable of calculating the political consequences accurately...
我觉得我能准确预料此事的政治后果。

剧情百科常识:

这样一位被学校的传统势力视做“异类”的女子能否成功达到她的目的，让她的学生们脱离束缚，找到自我？还是最终等待她的是那些传统观念，传统势力的猛烈“进攻”……

考考你：
我反复背诵，直到我能一词不漏地背出70篇故事来。
感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。

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上一期答案
He is adept at getting himself out of difficult situations.
It is incumbent on me to reclaim him.
I bring the might of Persia, and the sacrament of purification.