英英释义

1. Has it ever occurred to you that your professors and other school personnel have certain goals for your growth and maturity during your college years?
=have you ever realized that your teachers and other school working staff expect you to grow and become mature so as to meet certain goals when you are in college years?

2. Has it ever dawned on you that certain developmental changes will occur in your life as you move from adolescence to young adulthood?
= Has it ever occurred to you that certain developmental changes will happen in your life as you move from a youngster to young adult?

3.During this time, students are going through an identity crisis and are endeavoring to find out who they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are.
=During this period, students are experiencing an identity crisis and are working hard to find out who they are and what their strong and weak points are.

4. It is important to know how people perceive themselves as well as how other people perceive them.
= It is important to know how people look at themselves as well as how other people look at them.

5. identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents), shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.
=who we are is determined by three things: firat, our genes, or our parent have given us, our legacy; second, environment; third, luck or oppotrtunities.

6.People are influenced by their environment and, in turn, influence their environment.
=the environment plays a role on human beings and vice versa.

7.While students are going through an identity crisis, they are becoming independent from their parents, yet are probably still very dependent on them.
=While students are experiencing an identity crisis, they are not totally relying on their parents,but it's still very likely for them to count on their parents.

8. First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.
= First, there is functional independence, which includes how an individual can handle his\her practical and personal affairs, such as taking care of financial matters, selecting his\her clothes, and deciding what his\her will do every day.

9. Hoffman defines this process as "freedom from an excessive need for approval, closeness, togetherness, and emotional support in relation to the mother and father."
=hoffman gives a definition to the process as "being away from an excessive need to get their parents'approval, to be close to their parents, to be together with their parents, and to obtain emotional support from their parents."

10. Fourth is freedom from "excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father."
=children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think

they have done something wrong;they are also anxious because they are eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not been fair to them; they feel that they are responsilble to their parents for everying they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or mske them feel resentful. these feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents,when they grow up, they usually strive for freedom from this.

11.College students need to stand back and see where they are in the independence / dependence struggle.
=college students need to distance themselves from their everyday life in order to see clearly where their positions are in the indepedence\depedence struggle.

12.Probably one of the most stressful matters for young college students is establishing their sexual identity, which includes relating to the opposite sex and projecting their future roles as men or women.
=young college students perhaps feel most distreessed in figuring their sexual idenity, which includes associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men and women.

13.That same young man came into my office less than a week later, dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.
=That same young man came into my office less than a week later, walking slowly and listlessly, on his face was a disappointed and depressed look.

14.Thus, the way students are relating to those of the opposite sex has a definite influence on their emotions.
=therefore, how students are getting along with people of the opposite sex has a clear effect on their emotions.

15. During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow.
= During the course I had realized that contrary to my enlarged world and more open choices, my father's world seemed to be geeting smaller and his choices fewer.

16. In their adolescent years, however, these matters are questioned and in some cases rebelled against.
=when they enter their youth stage, however, they often have doubts about these matters and somtimes oppose them.

17.In the late sixties, a young woman from a background that was extremely prejudiced against people from other races came to college convinced that her race was superior.
=In the late sixties, a young woman who strongly discriminated other ethnic people came to college with the belief that her race was better than other races.

18.She was distressed because she had been put into a dorm that had people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds.
=she was extremely upset because she had been arranged into a dorm together with people of many other races.

19.As she finished her senior year, she had grown to realize that people of other races were not only equa

l to her but were people who could be her friends and from whom she could learn.
=when she finished her fourth year study,she had learned thart the people of other races were not inferior to her,and what's more, she could make friends with and learn from these people.
1. It was a wonder to me they'd want to be seen with such a windbag. I know now what it was that attracted them.
=i was curious to see they would want to be associated with such a person who talked a lot but noting was important meaningful.

2.An olderly riding by had told him, becausr the orderly knew how thick he was with Grant.
=an olderly riding by had told my father of the news of lee's surrender becausr he knew my father was very close to Grant.