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● all-night restaurants：通宵营业的餐馆。
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● as far as I can see：据我所知道的。语气中有保留：事实也许并不如此。that’s about all的that指“学做茶房”一事。university career：在大学读书这段过程。deriving：获得。你在大学读书所得益者，不过是学做茶房而已。about all：几乎尽在于此，此外别无收获。
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● it occurs to me：我有这个想法。devote more attention to：更用心。drop out of school：退学。altogether字典上解作“完全地”，其实即相当于北平话的“干脆”退了学算了。
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● on probation：试读，试用（人员）；录用与否，视成绩而定。right用以加强now。
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● automatically：自动地；根据学校规定，不必另外有什么手续。suspended from the university：停学。half his work：及格学分不到全部所修学分的一半。
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● out you’ll go=you’ll go out。out放在前面是不是念起来更为有劲？out在这里，是全句重心所在。one F more：只要再拿一个戊等。这种句法结构（后面跟and：只要如何如何，就有如何如何的结果），是很常用的。
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● being frank：跟你说老实话。being是gerund。
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“I’d hate to have to go back home like that, sir.”
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“Well, you’d have to. If you flunk out, the university authorities are obliged to see that you return to your home immediately.”
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“I’d hate that, sir, I’d hate to go back home and have to live off my family, and that’s probably what I’d have to do. You know there are not many jobs to be had nowadays, sir, and I’d hate to go back home and loaf.”
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● like that：那样子（被学校除名）回家。
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● you’d have to：假如不用功，就非被除名不可。you’d的’d是would的缩写，虚拟语气。
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● are obliged：有此责任。to see=to make sure：做到这一点。you return的return也是虚拟语气；假如主语是he或she，return也不用加s。
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● I’d hate that：我不愿意那样（假如真的有那一天的话）。to live off my family：依赖家庭为生。
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● to be had（被动式infinitive）：可能找到的事情并不多。loaf：闲荡。
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“It is a problem, I’ll confess, Wingate. But what’s the point in your coming to your university and working all-night in a cafe and then flunking your class work? Moreover, your freshman adviser reports that you make a practice of sleeping in class. Is that true?”
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“Well, yes, sir, I suppose I do drop off sometimes.”
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● 第一句的is重读：“我承认这的确是一个问题。”
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● point：目的。
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● make a practice of：有此习惯。
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● I suppose：我想。suppose在此处即等于think，并无“假设”之意。do drop off：的确瞌睡。drop off=fall asleep；这两个字的意义比上文drowse off更重，drowse off不过是假寐而已。
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“Pretty impossible situation, isn’t it, Wingate? Well, I’ve given you the best advice I can. Unless you can alter your circumstances I suggest that you withdraw from the university at once. We have six thousand other students here who need our attention, and the university has to be impartial and impersonal in dealing with these problems. Unless you can find some means to avoid flunking out I suggest withdrawing beforehand.”
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● 第一句：这种情形，岂不是令人相当难堪？impossible=intolerable。
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● you withdraw：请你自动休学。这是训导长的建议，所以withdraw还是虚拟语气的动词。
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● impartial：不偏不颇。impersonal：公事公办，不考虑个别情形。means：法子。
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