He turned on, tuned in and dropped out.

他踌躇满志地入学，但很快退学。

So he dropped out and moved to New York with ambitions to be an artist.

所以他退学了，搬到纽约，立志成为一名艺术家。

If I remember correctly, you failed your exams and you were kicked out of university.

如果我记错的话，你考过，被大学退学了。

Then I quit college and took many different jobs.

然后我从大学退学，做了许多不同的工作。

So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.

所以我决定要退学，我觉得这才是正确的选择。

Each case is judged on its merits. Generally, students with problems are warned, take resits and then either proceed or not-through mutual discussion.

每一个个案必须根据本身的优缺点审核。一般来说，有问题的学生会受到警告、补考，然后在共同讨论过后不是升级就是退学。

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

如果我有退学，我就不会去书法班，今天的个人电脑大概也就不会有出色的版式功能。

That's wonderful, but are you going to quit college?

那很好，但是你打算退学吗？

Did you know they both were created by a dropout?

他们退学过？

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

要是我当初有退学，我绝不会碰巧选了这门书法课。个人电脑也可能不会有现在这些漂亮的版式了。

But when you look at Americans who have a high school diploma, they look a lot like other countries' high school dropouts.

但是当你看拥有高中毕业文凭的美国人时，他们的表现像是其它国家高中退学的人一样。

She described how her unplanned pregnancy forced her to drop out of community college, how she then lost her job and was now living with her mother in Texas.

她说明计划外的怀孕如何迫使她从社区大学退学，接着她如何失去工作，现在和她母亲一起住在德州。

Apparently, Susan is thinking of dropping out of school.

很明显，苏珊想退学。

Those individual decisions to drop out collectively amount to society-wide stratification.

那些个人决定退学总体上等于社会范围的阶层分化。

He quits school to become a celebrity.

为了成为名人，他退学了。

But he dropped out of law school to enter politics.

但他从法学院退学，进入了政界。

He quit high school when he was about 16.

差不多16岁的时候他就从高中的学校退学了。

She dropped out before she completed her degree in journalism, because she realized that it was not necessary for her to start a career in writing.

她在完成新闻学学位之前就退学了，因为她意识到自己有必要以写作为职业。

John withdrew from school a year before he graduated.

约翰在毕业的前一年退学了。

So why did I drop out? It started before I was born.

那我为什么要退学呢？那要从我出生的时候讲起。