Because of that, they wanted to keep a close eye on us, and for a couple of weeks they wouldn't let us out of the school grounds without an escort (there was a fence and a gate around the campus).

由于这一点，学校总是把我们盯得紧紧的，甚至有那么两星期时间，没有(校方人员)陪同，还不允许我们离开校园(校园有围墙和大门)(美国的学校没有围墙，所以作者需要特别强调这一点——译者注)。

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"Business needs to relearn its limits, and if the Harvard business School let some air out of its own balloon, business would listen," he grumbles.

“商业世界需要重新领会其有限性，如果哈佛商学院能从自己的气球中放些空气出来的话，商业世界会倾听的”，他嘟囔道。

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But don't threaten to pull them out of school if they don't obey you. Try to let go of controlling every aspect of their lives.

千万不要吓唬说不听话就让你退学，不要把孩子们的方方面面都管的死死的。

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When school let out there would be a month without school, and if I did not salvage the situation, I would not see them until school began again in the spring.

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