主题：blogspot上介绍王同学卧底生活的一篇文章 -- wittman

she was being a slightly socially incompetent fob

她是一个社交能力有点缺陷的土包子。

fob=Fresh Off the Boat，指那些刚到美国由于做事习惯和当地人格格不入而显得“傻”或“土”的人。注意：这个词有明显的歧视性，不可以随便用。

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Grace told us that she already dropped out of her high school in Qingdao because she was unsatisfied by the best high school in Shandong province.

drop out指的是退学，不是被开除。这里王同学是因为对山东最好的中学不满而把学校开除了。

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She moved to Korea, and there she learned English by watching American films.

王同学搬去南韩，通过看美国电影来学英语。

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She gets accepted to all but Harvard. She chose to come to Duke because she got the Robertson. She then turns down the Robertson because she didn't want the restrictions set by the program.

Robertson是一个为北卡大学Chapel Hill分校和Duke设立的奖学金，鼓励学生参加社会服务，并培养将来的社会领袖。

看来王同学因为得到了Robertson奖学金而选择Duke，放弃了Princeton和Yale。但是到了Duke以后她又觉得Robertson奖学金的条件太苛刻，所以又不要了。

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She says the guy was a virgin and now he wants a relationship. We go to the common room, she points him out, and he was playing pool at the other side of the room, totally not paying attention to her.

她说那个男孩是处男，xx过以后正在追求她。我们去公共休息室，王同学指着一个人说就是他，但是那个男孩正房间另一头玩撞球，根本就没理她。

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She even told people that she wrote her own recommendations for college applications.

她甚至告诉别人她申请大学的推荐信都是自己写的。（这对美国人来讲是绝对不能接受的作弊行为，大概王同学到美国不久，还没意识到这一点）。

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I've heard her practice her German, and it is atrocious.

我听到她练习德语，口音一塌糊涂。

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all her boy problems will go away

不再会有感情上的挫折（boy problem指女孩在和男孩交往中遇到的问题和挫折）

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Is it me, or is she someone trying to convince herself that she's destined for greatness?

她是在试图让自己相信她自己的前途无量，还是我多心了？