1·I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.
二十世纪60年代，当我还是耶鲁大学心理学系的一名研究生时，我首次开始研究人类动机的基础以及人们在遭遇挫折后如何坚持下去。
2·The graduate student found many errors that would have been ignored in his essay.
在这位研究生在他的论文中发现了许多本来会被忽视的错误。
3·Here we have the graduate student doing what a principled person does: he was pursuing truth through research and writing.
这个研究生做着一件有原则的事情：他通过研究和写作来探寻真相。
4·The graduate student ploughed through hundreds of pages of material to unearth a single fact.
为了找一个简单的事实，这位硕士研究生费力地查阅了数百页的资料。
5·I was a graduate student, 23, living in Princeton with my boyfriend.
我是个23岁的研究生，跟男朋友一起住在普林斯顿。