Once, when I was a mere lad and had never ridden a horse before, he made me mount one and gallop by his side, with no qualms about his unskilled companion.

有一次，在我还是个小毛孩，从来没有骑过马的时候，他让我骑上一匹马在他的旁边疾驰，对于他那不熟练的同伴，他一点也不担虑。

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Now she attributes much of her understanding of college to that: "But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for."

现在她把自己对大学的理解很大程度上归结为：“但一旦我进入校园，一切就完全不同了，没有人真正让我做好准备。”

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Well, I didn't neither, but all at once it popped onto me that it was Friday.

嗯，我也是，但我突然想到今天是星期五。

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Not once did I question this fact. My mind told me I was on Mars as your mind tells you that you are upon Earth.

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