拜登自传速读PromisesToKeep(5)

It may surprise you to hear that the Democratic nominee for the presidency was a very mediocrestudent in college. He had the brains, but he wasn"t motivated to put in the hard graft. In fact, like many of us, Joe Biden often ended up franticallycramming for exams just a few days before they began.
听说民主党总统候选人在大学时是个非常平庸的学生，你可能会感到惊讶。他很有头脑，但他没有动力刻苦学习。事实上，和我们很多人一样，乔·拜登经常在考试开始前几天疯狂地死记硬背。
For his first two years at the University of Delaware, Biden was much more interested in hanging out with his friends in the student loungethan hitting the books.
在特拉华大学的头两年，拜登更愿意和朋友们在学生休息室里闲逛，而不是看书。
It didn’t help that, around this time, he also fell madly in love with a woman he met on the beach during spring breakin the Bahamas. The woman who captured his heart was called Neilia Hunter.
在这个时候，他还疯狂地爱上了一个他春假期间在巴哈马海滩上认识的女人。抓住他的心的女人叫尼莉亚·亨特。
Neilia was different from Joe in a lot of ways. For one thing, her family wasn"t Catholic. For another, she was extremely wealthy. But that didn"t seem to matter to the young couple. They were in love, and knew they were meant to be together. Joe started making the 320-mile drive to see her every weekend. He even gave up playing football because practices would have meant he"d have less time for visits.