Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades.
斯奈德和同事们发现，新生在第一学期开始时抱有的希望程度能更准确地预测他们的大学成绩。
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Accustomed to seeing As and Bs on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children's first semester college grades are below that level.
他们习惯于在孩子的高中成绩单上看到 A 和 B，所以当他们的孩子大学第一学期的成绩低于这个水平时，他们可能会感到不安。
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As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.