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In the fall of 1989, Princeton University welcomed into its freshman¹ class a young man named Alexi Santana, whose life story the admissions committee had found extraordinarily² compelling.

在1989年秋天，普林斯顿大学新生班上迎来了一位名叫亚历克西·桑塔纳的年轻人，招生委员会发现他的人生故事非常引人注目。

He had barely received any formal schooling³. He had spent his adolescence⁴ almost entirely⁵ on his own, living outdoors in Utah, where he'd herded⁶ cattle, raised sheep, and read philosophy. Running in the Mojave Desert, he had trained himself to be a distance runner.

桑塔纳几乎没有接受任何正规学校教育。他将自己的青春期近乎完全“耗”在了犹他州的户外活动中：在那里养牛、放羊、读哲学，在莫哈韦沙漠跑步，将自己训练成一名长跑运动员。

Santana quickly became something of a star on campus. Academically too he did well, earning A's in nearly every course. His reserved manner and unusual background suffused⁷ him with an enigmatic appeal. When a suite⁸ mate asked Santana how his bed always seemed to be perfectly⁹ made, he answered that he slept on the floor. It seemed perfectly logical that someone who had spent much of his life sleeping outdoors would have no fondness for a bed.

桑塔纳很快就成了校园里的明星。在学术上他也做得很好，几乎在每一个课程中都得了A。 他的矜持举止和不寻常的背景让他充满了神秘的吸引力。 一次桑塔纳的室友问他，为什么他的床铺总是那么整洁完美，他回答说，因为他睡在地板上。 那些大部分时间在户外休憩的人都不会喜欢睡在床上，这似乎完全符合逻辑。

Except that Santana's story was a lie. About 18 months after he enrolled¹⁰, a woman recognized him as somebody she'd known as Jay Huntsman at Palo Alto High School in California six years earlier. But even that wasn't his real name. Princeton officials eventually learned that he was actually James Hogue, a 31-year-old who had served a prison sentence in Utah for possession of stolen tools and bike parts. He was taken away from Princeton in handcuffs.

桑塔纳的故事不仅仅是个谣言，还另有隐情。在他入学的18个月以后，一位女士认出了他——他是6年前在加利福尼亚帕洛阿尔托高中的一个名叫杰·亨斯迈的人--尽管这也不是他的真名。普林斯顿官员最终获悉，他实际上叫詹姆斯·霍格，当时31岁，曾因为拥有被盗的工具和自行车零件而在犹他州服刑。最终他被拷上了手铐带离了普林斯顿。

In the years since, Hogue has been arrested several times on theft charges. In November, when he was arrested for stealing in Aspen, Colorado, he tried to pass himself off as someone else.

在之后的几年里，霍格因为偷盗又被捕了几次。11月，当他在科罗拉多州的阿斯彭因偷窃而被捕时，他试图以别人的身份逃脱。

1 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。

2 extraordinarily   

adv.格外地；极端地

参考例句：

• She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.她是个美丽非凡的姑娘。
• The sea was extraordinarily calm that morning.那天清晨，大海出奇地宁静。

3 schooling   

n.教育；正规学校教育

参考例句：

• A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
• Backward children need a special kind of schooling.天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。

4 adolescence   

n.青春期，青少年

参考例句：

• Adolescence is the process of going from childhood to maturity.青春期是从少年到成年的过渡期。
• The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence.这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。

5 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

6 herded   

群集，纠结( herd的过去式和过去分词 )； 放牧； （使）向…移动

参考例句：

• He herded up his goats. 他把山羊赶拢在一起。
• They herded into the corner. 他们往角落里聚集。

7 suffused   

v.（指颜色、水气等）弥漫于，布满( suffuse的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her face was suffused with colour. 她满脸通红。
• Her eyes were suffused with warm, excited tears. 她激动地热泪盈眶。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

8 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。

9 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

10 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》