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Several days ago, we talked about Wart
几天之前 我们谈论过沃特
We said one of his good qualities was that he was curious
我们说过他的美德之一就是充满了好奇心
Always a good quality, gets you in trouble, too
通常你的美德也会给你带来麻烦
I have a year old St Bernard and she's more like a cat,
我有只一岁的小猫叫圣伯纳德
the way she behaves, she's way too curious
她的行为充满了好奇
I think it's going to get her in trouble sometimes,
我想也正是因为她的好奇心有时会给她带来麻烦
get her head stuck some place
她的脑袋经常会卡在什么地方
But Kay is not
但凯不是这样的
Kay has never asked to be changed
没人要求凯去改变
He likes the status quo
他喜欢现状
He just likes how it is, he just wants to live his life and enjoy it
他只是喜欢这样 他想过好自己的生活 并去享受它
He thinks he has it good
他觉得自己过的日子很好
We read the bottom of 89,
我们来看89页下面
"Perhaps what is good for you, might be bad for him "
可能对你来说好的东西 对他而言并不好
"Besides, remember he has never asked to be turned into anything "
"另外 你要记住他从来没想变成任何东西"
I think that it gets back, a lot of the stuff we read, to me,
我认为它回到了我们读的东西
gets back to being a good parent
对我来说 回到了做个好家长
When people say, "Well, you have to treat all your children equally "
当人们说 "你得平等对待孩子们"
Treating you're children fairly is not treating them equally
公正地对待孩子们并不是平等地对待他们
You should treat all your children fairly
你得公正地对待他们
But people have different interests, they have different capabilities,
但每个人有不同的兴趣 不同的能力
they have different desires
也有着不同的渴望
So, you can't treat them equally
所以你没法平等地对待他们
You can appear to treat them equally
你只能表现出平等
I always remember my parents
我一直都记得我的父母
I was the youngest of four
我是四个孩子中最小的
My sister went to Wellesley
我姐姐上的是卫斯理学院
My oldest brother went to RPR, that's a little Polytechnic Institute,
我大哥以前在RPR读书 那是个小型的理工学院
on a fourwide scholarship from Grumman Aircraft
他从格莱曼飞机公司获得了四倍的奖学金
My next oldest brother only applied 2 places,
我最小的哥哥上过两所大学
MIT and Rice and got into both And then went to Yale Law School
麻省理工学院和莱斯大学 之后进入耶鲁法学院学习
So I was like, why try?
那我为什么想试试呢
Well, what's the point?
重点在哪儿
The tradition in our family was that, you got so much money,
我们家的传统是 你拿到这么多钱
and this is before everybody got A's
但这是在每个人拿到最优秀的成绩之前
I went into a highly selective undergraduate institution
我上了个一流的本科院校
I was in Phi Beta Kappa, which is the best honorary there is,
我是美国大学优等生荣誉学会的一员 这是最高的荣誉
Academic honorary
最高的学术荣誉
But the person with the top grade point in my class had a 3 6,
但我们班的最高分是36分
that was the top grade point
那是最高的分数了
What happened was, to make a long story short, is Vietnam came along
长话短说 接下来越南出现了
Vietnam had the effect of grade inflation because
越南有受到分数膨胀的影响因为
people didn't want to flow people out so they go get shot in Vietnam
人们不愿意人员外流 所以他们呆在越南
and once you have grade inflation, it's hard to put grades back
一旦你有分数膨胀 很难让这些分数回到正常状态
