由小学到中学，所修习的无非是一些普通的基本知识。就是大学四年，所授课业也还是相当粗浅的学识。世人常，

参考答案:Primary and secondary school will impart to you only some rudiments of knowledge①. Even what you learn during the four years of university will be something quite superficial too. A university has often been misleadingly② referred to as "the highest seat of learning"③, which sounds as if there were no more learning to speak of beyond it. The research institute of a university, however, is the place for preliminary scholarship. But even there④ you get only the first taste of learning⑤ and the emphasis is on research methodology and practice. Art is long, life is short. That is why some of our ancients continued to study even when they were hoary-headed⑥. They were, of course, motivated by an enormous interest in their studies⑦.
答案解析:[解析]
①汉译英中非常重要的一点就是如何选择主语。本句以primary and secondary school为主语，目的是为了连接下文所讨论的a university和the rese