A gap year can harm your admissions chances

The term gap year traditionally applies to the year between high school graduation and college matriculation.

间隔年这个说法传统上是指在高中毕业和大学入学之间的一年。

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Critics point out that the gap year is often an opportunity reserved for the wealthy.

批评人士指出，间隔年通常是富人才能享有的机会。

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But the gap year you see on television is not always the gap year that you find in reality.

然而你在电视上看到的间隔年并不总是现实中的那样的。

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This pairs wonderfully with regretting not taking a gap year.

这与后悔没有在间隔年休学是绝配。

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The effect a gap year has on your college applications depends entirely on how you spend that year.

间隔年对你申请大学有怎样的影响完全取决于你如何度过间隔年。

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A gap year is now one of the most talked about phenomena of this millennium.

间隔年是这个世纪被谈论最多的现象之一。

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The gap year turned out to be a boost to his study on his return to campus.

事实证明，在他重返校园的时候，间隔年确实为他的学业注入了新动力。

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A gap year offers high school graduates a baluable opportunity to().

间隔年为中学毕业生提供了一个宝贵的机会去（认清自己的职业兴趣和目标）。

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After graduating from college, he went for a gap year traveling and teaching English in China.

大学毕业后，他在中国一边旅游一边教英语度过了一年。

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But he says international students may take a gap year to meet requirements at home for military duty.

但是他说国际学生可能会利用间歇的这一年回本国服兵役。

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Not taking a gap year

没有用空档年去休整（英国学生高中毕业进入大学前的1年休整期）

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A gap year is like a vacation

间隔年就像一个假期

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If this truly is the case, a gap year may be the way to go.

如果你是他们之一，也许是时候考虑接下来的一年先干点别的什么事儿了。

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For many students, the gap year is a time for adventure and personal exploration.

对很多学生来说，间隔年是用来冒险和探索自我的。

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Taking a gap year in college has become more appealing to students.

大学间隔年越来越受到学生们的青睐。

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Not, it seems, by taking a gap year.

看上去不应选择空档年。

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Of course, a gap year is not for everyone.

当然，空档年并非适合每一个人。

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Many students take a gap year after university.

许多学生大学毕业后会休整一年。

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These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a "gap year" between their graduation from school and their university studies.

如今，越来越多的英国学生在高中毕业和读大学之间会选择度过一个"间隔年"。

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Whole society had a strong concept of gender discrimination under the influence of deep-rooted Confucian philosophy.

因受到根深蒂固的儒教文化影响，整个社会蔓延着强烈的性别歧视观念。

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