Older generations often talk about their degree in the present and personal tense: 'I am a geographer' or 'I am a classist.'

老一代人经常用个人化的、现在时的口吻谈论他们的学历：“我是一个地理学家”，或者“我是一个古典学研究者。”

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Xu Xiake, a geographer and writer in Ming dynasty, spend more than thirty years on the road four hundred years ago.

四百年前，明朝地理学家、文学家徐霞客在旅途中度过了三十多年。

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But you are a geographer!

可您还是地理学家呢！

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But many shipping firms are not bothered by such niceties, says Nicky Gregson, a geographer at Sheffield University.

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So the next three years I'll be at Cambridge, becoming a geographer.

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Using a joystick, a geographer can float above the Earth, then zoom in on the bottom of Lake Tahoe, with no loss of detail.

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