第一封(开头+结尾,中间两段评论了我的观点):
Thank you for describing your recent work making use of trauma theory to think about China, Korean, and Japan, which is indeed a gigantic and complex issue for which the theory is ideally suited. While we welcome your application to the Ph.D. program here, you should know that it is a very competitive process. Individuals are not accepted to work with one faculty or another but only into the department as a whole.
By the way, if you are not accepted in the Ph.D. program, you can always think about coming here as a one-year fellow if you raised your own funds.
第二封我又看了他和学生的文献,总结了一下,提了自己的看法,就回了四个字,搞的我心灰意冷了:
Very sensible! I agree