【正确答案】Primary and secondary school will impart to you only some rudiments of knowledge^①. Even what you learn dung the four years of university will be something quite superficial too. A university has often been misleadingly^② 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 there^④ you get only the first taste of learning^⑤ 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-headed^⑥. They were, of course, motivated by an enormous interest in their studies^⑦.

【答案解析】 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 research institute of a university，使结构衔接，逻辑通顺。
   ②“这名称易滋误解”，一般译为定语从句which is misleading即可，这里用评注性副词misleadingly替代，使译文更显地道，结构也更为紧凑。
   ③“学府”可译为seat of learning或institution of higher learning。
   ④“所在”和“在这里”是共指关系，可用where引导定语从句与之衔接，这里另起一句，there前置以表强调。
   ⑤“藩篱”原指篱笆，这里用作比喻，“初涉藩篱”此处意为初步体验做学问的乐趣，故而译为the first taste of learning。
   ⑥“皓首”与“头发白了”同义，译其一即可。
   ⑦本句在逻辑语义上是交代古人皓首穷经的驱动力量，所以添加they作主语，与前句our ancients对接，同时选择be motivated作谓语，表意贴切。