Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and her academic advisor.

旁白：听一段学生和她的学业导师之间的对话。

Student: Hi. Professor Jones. Thanks for seeing me.

学生：嗨，Jones教授。感谢您能抽出时间见我。

Professor: No problem, Laura. How was your summer break?

教授：没事的，Laura。你的暑假怎么样？

Student: It was great! But the fact is it's made me reconsider my academic plans.

学生：很好呀！但事实是暑假让我重新考虑了我的学业计划。

Professor: Oh, really? Nothing too dramatic, I hope.

教授：噢，真的吗？我希望没有什么太大的变动。

Student: No, no. At least I hope not.

学生：哦，没有。至少我不希望有大的变动。

Professor: What do you mean exactly?

教授：所以你具体想怎么办呢？

Student: Well, I just spent the summer working on a Native American reservation, a Navajo reservation in Arizona.

学生：嗯，我暑假里刚刚在美国当地的保护区工作过，是一个纳瓦霍人的保护区，在亚利桑那州。

And I was fascinated, so now I want to study the Navajo language, uh, their history, religion.

我对此很着迷，所以我想学习纳瓦霍人的语言，他们的历史，宗教什么的。

I want to go back next summer too.

我想下个暑假再去一次。

And maybe even spend a semester there, some kind of internship or independent study?

也许会花一个学期在那里，找个实习或者独立研究什么的？

Professor: Wow! Sounds like you are really enthusiastic, but you were majoring in sociology, and I seem to recall that for your senior project, you were doing something with education?

教授：哇！听起来你是很热忱。但是你主修是社会学，我好像需要提醒你你还有个高级项目，你好像是在做关于教育的研究？

Student: Right. I have done some research on the public schools in the northeastern states, how they've been affected by changes in population, uh, immigration trends, during the past fifty years.

学生：对的。我是做了一些关于东北各州的公立学校的调研，比如说他们怎么受到人口变动的影响，嗯，人口迁移的影响，在过去的五十年间。

But now I really want to study the culture of the Navajo people.

但是现在我真的想去学习纳瓦霍人的历史。

Professor: Well, there are a couple of options depending on your priorities.

教授：好吧，你有几个选择。

Say, how did you end up on a reservation in Arizona anyway?

看看这个，你是怎么过去亚利桑那州的保护区的？

Student: Well, a friend of mine took a job there, in a summer school program.

学生：是我的一个朋友在那边工作，在一个暑假学校的项目。

And they had another opening.

他们突然多了一个职位。

Someone cancelled at the last minute.

因为有人在最后一刻放弃了。

I thought it would be just a big adventure, but it turned out to be much more than that.

我一开始以为这只是一次大冒险，但最后发现收获多了很多。

Professor: I see. Well, anyway...as I am saying, your options depend on what your priorities are and on exactly what you want to study.

教授：我明白了。无论如何，我说，你的决定要根据你自己的偏好，看你自己到底想学什么。

Student: Uh, like I said...Navajo culture?

学生：呃，就像我说的……纳瓦霍文化？

Professor: Well, let's see if we can be more specific.

教授：让我们具体看看。

If you want to study the Navajo language, learn about their religion, their history, that's part of cultural anthropology.

如果你想去学习纳瓦霍语言，了解更多他们的宗教和历史，那是属于一部分人类学范畴的。

Student: No. I really don't want to change majors at this point.

学生：不，我现在真的不想改变主修学科。

I love sociology and I really want to graduate in four years.

我喜欢社会学，我真的想用四年时间在这个专业上顺利毕业。

Professor: Okay. Now I see what your priorities are.

教授：好吧。现在我明白你的优先权给哪个学科了。

So from a sociological perspective, since you are interested in education, you can stay with that, change your research topic to the Native American experience with public education, the effect it had.

所以从社会学的角度，因为你对教育感兴趣，你可以还是以教育为主题，把你的研究课题改成美国本土居民的经历和公立教育，他们会对教育产生的影响。

And you could take sociology courses on religion or the role of minorities in society, again, focusing your research on the Navajo.

你可以修读一些关于宗教的社会学的课程，或者是少数民族在社会中的角色的课程，同时可以集中注意力研究纳瓦霍人。

Student: Um...I hadn't thought about that angle.

学生：嗯……我从没有从这个角度想过。

Sounds intriguing.

听起来很有趣。

And all the courses I have already taken would still count toward my degree?

所有我已经修完的课程还会帮我拿学位吗？

Professor: I have to check.

教授：这我需要去查一下。

And remind me to plan carefully to make sure all your degree requirements are met, but I don't see any problems.

记得提醒我仔细规划下你的学业计划，让你能顺利达到拿学位的要求。但是我觉得问题不大。

Student: Great! And then I can pick up the language and culture courses as electives.

学生：太好了！那么我可以选修纳瓦霍人的语言和文化的课程了！