Homeless_to_Harvard

childhood 8 years old 15 years old
parents took drugs began to beg mother died of AIDS, father got into the shelter
17 years old源自started to do 4years high school courses in 2 years got first scholarship of the New York Times
screw up
弄糟
I guess we only learn if we screw up from time to time. 我想我们都只是在一次次的把事情弄糟中才会学到东西的。
make a mess of
将…弄的一团糟
There are people who are walking encyclopedias, but they make a mess of their lives. 有些人身边就有百科全书但是他们的生活却是一团糟。
dwell [dwɛl] on vi.细想; 详述 Instead of allowing yourself to dwell on things you did not do well , focus on the moments where you were happy and content . 不要让自己对那些你没有做好的事情念念不忘，关注于你曾快乐、满足的时候。
What is your dream? For your life? For your school? I knew when at that moment I had to make a choice. I could submit to everything that was happening in living life of excuses or I could push myself. I could push myself and make my life good. 你的梦想是什么?生活的梦想?学校的梦想? 我知道在那个时刻我要做出选择 我可以顺从所有我 生命中发生的事情并为之辩护 或者我可以推自己一把 推自己一把 让我的生活变好
adj.全新的；崭新的
Transcript 副本；
/træ nskrɪpt/
n. 成绩单；抄本，
I want to continue my studies . I would appreciate it if you could send me a transcript . 现我准备继续深造，敬请邮寄一份我在校时学习成绩单。
pathetic [pə‘θetik] adj. 可怜的
The chastised child looked at her father with a pathetic, doleful expression. 被责骂的孩子哀怜地、悲伤地看着她的父亲。
count on 指望；依靠
We can not count on other nation to help us . 我们不能指望别的国家来帮助我们
In 1996
schizophrenic
[skidzəu‘frenik] adj. 精神分裂的
she is behaving rather sanely these days even though we know she is schizophrenic. 尽管我们知道她有精神分裂症，但那些天她的举止还算清醒。
Campus Life
Liz Murray was born in 1980 in the Bronx. Awards she has got:
• the first-class scholarship of “New York
Times” • “Fearless Award” • the “White House Example Prize” She has been interviewed by Clinton, the former President of Unite States. Now, Liz give speeches all around the world to inspire people to get out of stuck, go after dream ,make life meaningful and realize self-worth.
insane
An angry person who is very frightening, would become insane due to no control over emotions. 一个发怒的人是很恐怖的，会因控制不了情绪变成疯子。
[in‘sein]
adj. 疯狂的
疯 狂 的 手 指
Liz Murray, the daughter of a loving but extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. Weighed down with a cokeaddict father and an HIV-infected mother, Liz spends her early years shuttling from squalid(肮脏的) apartment to public shelter and back again. At 15, she breaks away from her home life (what there is of it) and takes to the streets. Only after the death of her mother does Liz develop the determination to better her lot in life. Virtually begging her way back into high school, she
cop
The man looked at the cop on the corner and ran away. 那人看着街角的警察就跑走了。
n. 巡警，警官
be inclined to
倾向于…；有意
Despite this, they may be inclined to lie back and watch the activity. 除此之外，他们可能倾向于躺在后背看着整项活动。
Your parents are your Gods. I look to them as an example of what I should find everywhere in the world. My parents paid so little attention to my needs, but then I felt that their needs were so powerful that ... it didn't make me feel hurt or angry that they didn't look into me. Because I felt OK. This just must to be the human condition to be.
Intensive 中的
[in‘tensiv]
adj. 加强的；集
The goal was to see whether we could speed them up at all just by intensive training . 这么做的目的是为了看看我们到底能否通过强化训练 加快他们的速度
你会怀疑地球是否在转动即使你不在也照样如此情况不能像你希望的一样有些人的需求有些人的信念会比你的更强烈我想人们在不知生活会有多困苦时感到失败所以人们久久围困于自己的失败中我们称为愤怒对事物的整体视而不见对于所有能够成功的微小元素以及什么是成功视而不见你会怀疑地球是否在转动即使你不在也照样如此情况不能像你希望的一样有些人的需求有些人的信念会比你的更强烈我想人们在不知生活会有多困苦时感到失败所以人们久久围困于自己的失败中我们称为愤怒对事物的整体视而不见对于所有能够成功的微小元素以及什么是成功视而不见sometimesifeelliketheresaskinontheworldandthoseofuswhowerebornunderitcanseethrowit
我很聪明,我可以改变我现在 的生活，改变我的一生。我 需要的只是一个机会。 一个 能够脱离我出生的环境的机 会。我认识的每个人都愤怒 而疲惫，他们只是在试图活 下去。但我知道，还有一个 更好的世界，并且我想要进 入那个世界。
The world moves you just suspect. It could no happen without you. Situations are not conduced to what you want for yourself someone else's needs, someone else's plate is going to be stronger than yours is. I think people just get frustrated without knowing how harsh life can be. So they're spending their time dwelling on that frustration we calling it anger. keep their eyes shut to the wholeness of the situation，to all those tinny things that have come together to make it, what it is. 你会怀疑地球是否在转动 即使你不在也照样如此 情况不能像你希望的一样 有些人的需求 有些人的信念会比你的更 强烈 我想人们在不知生活会有多困苦时感到 失败 所以人们久久围困于自己的失败中 我们称为愤怒 对事物的整体视而不见 对于所有能够成功的微小元素以及什么 是成功视而不见
becomes a superb(很棒的) student, and at 19, with funding from a scholarship and a part-time job with the New York Times, "born loser" Liz enters Harvard University.
cranky ['kræ ŋki] adj. 暴躁的；古怪的；动摇的 His mother has been cranky recently. 他的母亲最近常“暴躁”不安。
freaky [‘fri:ki] adj. 畸形的；曲折的；捉摸不定的 I never would have expected such a freaky ending. 我怎么也没有想到它的结局是这么得曲折，这么得奇妙。 trustworthy /trʌstwɜrð adj. 值得信任的 i/ You can always unload your troubles on your parents , they are trustworthy forever. 你总是可以把自己的心事倾诉给父母，他们是永远可以信任的。
你的父母是你的上帝, 就象全世界所有的普通父母一样. 我的父母很少关心我的需要, 但是却让我觉的他们的需要是如此强烈以至于当他们不关心 我时都没让我感到伤害或者愤怒, 因为我觉得能够承受, 可能人类就是这样的.
I’m smart. I know I can succeed. I just need a chance. A chance to climb out of this place I’ve born in. Everyone I know are angry and tired. They’re trying to survive. But I know that there is a world out there that is better, that’s better developed. And I want to live in it.
rot
If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away. 如果腐烂程度很小，则可以将坏的部分砍掉。
[rɔt]
n. /vi. 腐烂；腐败；堕落
decay [di'kei] vt. 使腐烂，使腐败；使衰退， 使衰落
one-dimensional ['wʌndai'menʃənəl]
adj. 肤浅的；单面的； But like anyone else , I'm not one dimensional , and I also love energetic songs . 跟大家一样，我也有多样性的不同面﹔我也喜欢节奏强烈、 动感活力的歌曲。
As people grow old, they will decay mentally as well as physically. 人们年老时脑力和体力都会衰退
brandnew
A brandnew oral English association is looking forward to your coming . 一个全新的口语协会期待你的加入！