来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第4集 第4集》

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  to ride up and down the lawn on their horses
  在草地上逛来逛去
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  and shoot guns off in the air. This was a popular hobby.
  向空中放枪 那是当时深受欢迎的活动
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  Things got really bad apparently
  但是枪和马
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  with the guns and the horses,
  惹出了乱子
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  so Thomas Jefferson in 1825 called a meeting of
  于是 托马斯·杰斐逊于1825年
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  the faculty and students so that he could reprimand them.
  召开了师生大会 对他们进行斥责
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  This is the hobby and delight of his old age,
  这是他晚年的爱好和快乐
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  his--what he's going to give to
  他将本应贡献给
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  his own colony or state of Virginia,
  自己的殖民地或弗吉尼亚州的东西
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  and now just wacky people riding around shooting guns
  浪费在了那些骑马 射击 逃课
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  and not really going to class, per se.
  的古怪学生身上
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  So he calls this meeting of students and faculty
  于是 他召开了师生大会