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I didn't make it to many classes this year
我今年根本就没上什么课
You guys must have really tanked your finals
你们期末考试肯定是故意输给我的
Thank you for that
谢谢你们的好意
I'd also like to thank President Teresa Sullivan
我还要感谢特蕾莎·沙利文校长
Thank you very much, President Sullivan
非常感谢 沙利文校长
You are way better than that last President Teresa Sullivan
你比最后这位特蕾莎·沙利文校长要好很多
She was terrible
她太糟糕了
I'm so glad they cut her loose
我很高兴 学校从此同她脱离关系
Good riddance, I say
我要说 终于解脱了
You are clearly the woman for this job
你显然是更适合这个位置的女性
I'd also like to thank the board of visitors
我还要感谢董事会
board of visitors of course
你们管它叫Board of Visitors(访客委员会)
that name goes all the way back to your founder
这可以一直追溯到你们的创建者
Thomas Jefferson who was just trying to put the local Indian at ease
托马斯·杰斐逊 他只是想让当地印第安人安心罢了
just visiting, should be going home any century now
我们只是访客 多少世纪之后 我们会回家去的
And as just one of the many unique dignified terms
这只是很多高贵名词其中之一
that set UVA apart from other universities:
这些名词让弗吉尼亚大学区别于其它大学
Instead of freshmen you have first years
这里大一生不叫freshmen 而叫first years
Instead of a quad, you call it a lawn
方庭不叫quad 而叫lawn
Instead of saying we are members of a proud educational tradition
这里不说 我们对一直追溯到开国元勋的
dating back to our nation's founders you say Wahoowa
悠久教育传统感到自豪 而说Wahoowa
Which begs the eternal question wahoo why? wahoo
这就回避了一个永恒的问题 为什么
Now I went to Hampden-Sydney College
我去了汉普敦-悉尼学院
Thank you, please sit down
谢谢 请坐
and I used to come up here as much as I could
我曾尽可能多地来这里
because you had these things back then
因为 你们当时有这些
I'm not sure what you call them now girls
我不知道你们现在怎么称呼 女生
