Oh, thank you. I, ah, my family is a bit eccentric.

谢谢我的家庭是有点古怪
I found discipline in books.

我的一切知识都源于书本
Well, you're probably wondering why Dean Sorenson is here.

你可能不知道索伦森院长为何而来
Bill, we'd like to offer you a position in the law school.

比尔我们想请你来法学院任职
You can't be serious?

你不是开玩笑吧
We've been wanting to incorporate more philosophy into the curriculum,

我们一直很想加大哲学在课程中的比重
And when we got wind of your hesitancy

所以一听说你正在犹豫
in transferring up from Brown in classics,

想离开布朗大学古典学系
we came up with the idea of letting you create

我们就想出了这么一个主意
your own institute for our law students.

由你来为我们的法学院学生创立一个系
I, ah, don't even know how to begin to respond.

我我不知该如何回应
That is such a precipitous offer.

这个消息来得太突然