Yale says satisfactory means C.

耶鲁认为令人满意就是C
So many of you will start off the semester writing that kind of paper.

你们中很多人在学期初会把论文写成那样
And the fact of the matter is,

问题是
some of you will start off writing worse papers than that.

有些人开始时的论文会比那更糟
Because writing a philosophy paper

因为哲学论文
is a difficult thing to learn how to do.

不是那么容易写的
It's exercising a set of muscles

写哲学论文是需要一些实力的
that a lot of you have not spent a lot of time exercising.

你们很多人平时并没有练习写过
Now it's not as though you haven't spent any time doing it.

并不是说你们从来没有花时间做过
You've had bull sessions, right,

你们和高中朋友们
with your high school friends or in your college dorm or what have you.

大学舍友等等有过闲聊
But you haven't done it with the kind of discipline

但你们从未按照我们