1. She ignored her teachers' advice to become an English teacher and didn't bother with going on to a university because "I was ready to plunge into my life as an artist."
    她没有听从老师的建议做一名英语老师，也不想费心思读大学，因为"我已准备好投身于艺术家的生活。"

2. Perhaps one should not merely sprinkle the pupil, but plunge him right down into the sea of language and enable him to swim by himself as soon as possible.
    也许我们不应该只在学生身上洒水，而应该把他们投入语言的海洋，使他们及早学会游泳。