He was traveling to the hospital an hour away to visit his patron, the man who was paying for his graduate school and who had recently become ill.

他打算前往距离一个小时路程远的医院去看望他的资助人。这位先生现在为他在研究所的学习支付费用，最近生病了。

As young people graduate and begin to work, they move far away from home and barely have time to visit their parents.

由于年轻人毕业后开始工作，他们远离家园，几乎没有时间去看望他们的父母。

Academics pick bright undergraduate students and groom them as potential graduate students. It isn't in their interests to turn the smart kids away, at least at the beginning.

学校挑选出聪明的本科生并将他们推荐到研究生院，显然，将他们拒之门外不符合学校的利益，至少起初是这样的。