I grew up in Beijing, but I was in Los Angeles for two years.
我在北京长大,不过在洛杉矶已呆了两年。
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
智力投资,决非虚掷。
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.