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UNIT 1 1 UNIT 1 EDUCATION Task 1 Translate the following into Vietnamese Making college pay off 1 College is an experiment in hope It’s also a risky investment for us all Whether it is graduate or und.
UNIT EDUCATION Task Translate the following into Vietnamese Making college pay off College is an experiment in hope It’s also a risky investment for us all Whether it is graduate or undergraduate school, a two-year program or an eight-year one, we entrust time in our lives to school for both a new identity and a ticket to the outside world We come to college with unspoken anticipation of all that will be done for us We expect to be made acceptable, valuable, and finally employable in the eyes of the world We also hope that magic answers will be revealed to us through academic study, leading us to guaranteed success in the outside world By graduation or completion of our chosen program, we presume everything will be clear; we will be made brilliant, and all knowledge will be accessible to us I have been a consultant to countless people who all had faith in this magic - many of whom were disappointed when the expected alchemy never took place They discovered, years later, that this powerful, magical process just doesn’t happen We have been all conditioned to wait for things to happen to us, instead of making things happen Most of us learned that we would excel, or at least pass, if we did the work assigned to us by our teachers We learned to find out what was expected to us, it, and wait for a response After we took all the required courses, we were promoted, say, from first to second year But what did we really learn? System Dependency! We learned that the person who knew the greatest number of right answers was rewarded by being the first of her class Nothing like this happens in real life Yet too many of us never recognize it We are the same passive students at ten or twenty five or forty four as we are at fourteen, continuing the teacher-student dichotomy, which we automatically transfer to the employer-employee relationship And we found that though studying history or art or whatever might be interesting, it alone didn’t lead to much else - like new experiences, contacts, or even a job Much disappointment resulted from this misuse of college It’s time to retrain ourselves to approach school in the same positive, productive, active way that successful people approach life College can become all that you wished for - a time for learning, for broadening horizons, a time to discover who you are and how you work with others, for setting goals and making things happen In short, college is a time for developing skills that will serve you far beyond your college years, which, even more than your degree, will prepare you for entrance into the real world So instead of thinking of college as a more difficult twelfth grade, learn to use college like the real world Step up and out of the suffocating box and stop pulling the lid tighter down on your own possibilities Remember, the longer you sit and wait, the harder it is to move up The passive “good student” attitude absolutely stifles any chance for people to become motivated, impassioned, or connected to new ideas and network of people Don’t be afraid to make that extra effort Doing only the minimum requirement is the grossest misunderstanding of what college is all about! Task Vietnamization When translating, it is more important to convey the message in the most natural way possible, rather than stick to the English words or phrases Look back at the examples from task 1: College is an experiment in hope The longer you sit, the harder it is to move up Now try to Vietnamize the following sentences: The rural women have to work very hard from morning till night Have a safe journey home! It’s hard to overstate her beauty Time is what you make of it The sun also rises Your home away from home (on the front door of a hotel) Bacchus drowned more men than Neptune He talks to me as if there were nothing between us My new assistant is very efficient 10 Unlike managers, leaders only use power as a last resort