personal statement

基本解释

She had to rewrite the personal statement and recommendation letters herself in the end.
最后，她不得不选择自行重写一份个人陈述和推荐信。
Your personal statement for each school should be crafted to demonstrate why THAT PARTICULAR school is suitable for you.
你为每所学校所提交的个人陈述都要证明为什么适合你的学校就是它。
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For several reasons, though, I strongly urge you to avoid having anyone else- especially a language institute- write or rewrite the"personal statement" in your application.
然而，出于几种原因，我强烈地敦促你不要让别人--特别是那些外语机构--来为你写或改写你在申请材料中的自传。
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Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.
细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。
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you send a personal statement and your predicted grades,
你递交一份个人陈述和你预期的成绩，
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As Chinese consumers become more sophisticated and savvy, they're using fashion to differentiate themselves and project a personal statement.
FORBES: Luxury goods makers find growth in China.
He decided that the customer had to be sold on the idea of wearing a watch as a personal statement.
FORBES: Leadership

in the UK, a short piece of writing about yourself and your interests that forms part of your university application (= request to be given a place to study at a university)

个人陈述
Personal Statement is a brief and focused essay about one's background, academic achievement as well as his or her future goal of study, research and career, and is frequently required for applicants to universities, graduate schools in western countries, particularly in U. S. A and Canada, etc. In present China, there is an increasing number of students, who are applying for scholarship and admission to graduate schools of overseas universities.
个人陈述是在申请美国、加拿大、英国等西方国家的大学或研究生录取时,申请者撰写的有关其教育背景,学术成就,未来研究和职业规划的文书。