At first glance Esther Okade seems like a normal 10-year-old. She loves dressing up as Elsa from "Frozen," playing with Barbie dolls and going to the park or shopping. 第一眼看上去,十岁的埃丝特·奥卡德好像和同龄孩子没什么不一样。她喜欢打扮成《冰雪奇缘》里的艾尔莎,喜欢芭比娃娃,也喜欢去公园和商场。 But what makes the British-Nigerian youngster stand out is the fact that she's also a university undergraduate. 但与众不同的是,这个尼日利亚裔英国小女孩其实已是一名大学本科生了。 Esther, from Walsall, an industrial town in the UK's West Midlands region, is one of the country's youngest college freshmen. 埃丝特,来自英国西米德兰兹郡的工业城市沃尔索尔,已经成为了英国年龄最小的大学生之一。 The talented 10-year-old enrolled at the Open University, a UK-based distance learning college, in January and is already top of the class, having recently scored 100% in a recent exam. 今年1月份,这位10岁的天才少女进入了英国的一所远程教育大学——开放大学。她现在已经在班里名列前茅,最近一次考试得了满分。 "It's so interesting. It has the type of maths I love. It's real maths -- theories, complex numbers, all that type of stuff," she giggles. "It was super easy. My mum taught me in a nice way." |