时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


英语课

 



[00:00.51]7.So Much to Learn


[00:04.43]It was the last day of final examinations in a large Eastern university. 


[00:10.97]On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors huddled 1, discussing the exam due to begin in a few minutes. 


[00:19.46]On their faces was confidence. This was their last exam — then on to commencement and jobs.


[00:28.94]Some talked of jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. 


[00:33.84]With all this assurance of four years of college, they felt ready and able to conquer the world.


[00:40.26]The approaching exam, they knew, would be a snap. 


[00:43.85]The professor had said they could bring any books or notes they wanted. 


[00:48.10]Requesting only that they did not talk to each other during the test.


[00:53.77]Jubilantly they entered into the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. 


[00:59.86]And smiles broadened as the students noted 2 there were only five essay-type questions.


[01:06.51]Three hours passed. Then the professor began to collect the papers. 


[01:12.06]The students no longer looked confident. 


[01:15.21]On their faces was a frightened expression. 


[01:18.70]No one spoke 3 as, papers in hand, the professor faced the class.


[01:24.58]He surveyed the worried faces before him, then asked: “how many completed all five questions?”


[01:32.64]Not a hand was raised.


[01:35.90]“How many answered four?”


[01:38.63]Still no hands.


[01:42.22]“Three? Two?”


[01:45.60]The students shifted restlessly in their seats.


[01:49.19]“One, then? Certainly somebody finished one.”


[01:53.22]But the class remained silent. The professor put down the papers. “that is exactly what I expected,” he said.


[02:04.54]“I just want to impress upon you that, even though you have completed four years of engineering. 


[02:11.62]There are still many things about the subject you don’t know. 


[02:15.78]These questions you could not answer are relatively 4 common in everyday practice.” 


[02:21.57]Then, smiling, he added: “you will all pass this course, but remember — even though you are now college graduates, your education has just begun.”


[02:33.17]The years have obscured the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.




1 huddled
挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
  • We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
2 noted
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
3 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
4 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
学英语单词
Achilles(') jerk
air-to-air homing
Al Birkah
angulus inferior
antiliterate
bad-dog
bgn
bin-liners
binary syllabification
carrying piece
caution money
celsi
cephalexin-aztreonam-arabinose
chefdoeuvre
chevron crack
cliquots
coil aerial
Coitalgia
colo(u)r phase
commody
cornelis jansens
cost per piece
coto bark
covering of roadway
crapitalism
decodes
Dreyer
emergency housing
equivalent potential source
feel test
fissocantharis taiwana
flamen (ancient rome)
fore perpendicular
form vibrator
frictional index
guidanuce
HAH-CORTISOL
haploidisations
heaten
heating treating film
herpes generalisatus
HIPI
hundredaghte
hypotriglyceridaemia
hypsistaphylia
identification by anthropometry
Iminoacidopathy
immunoliposome
inductor-type
input/output queue backward pointer
intact dilatation and extraction
irfbs
isoxaben
Journal of Royal Agricultural Society
Kalamatianos
laforest
leeriness
liquid crystal box
livnat
locking screw
magnetic reteniyity
misclick
monocular straight tube microscope
nervus spinosus
nig
Obeliscoides
oil fired
optical inversion
over shot
oxygen tent
oxyphenonium bromide
Party Favours
pedagogical experience
PERCOPHIDIDAE
Picea asperata
polynomial checksum
pot valour
pregelatinization
programmed data transfer
Pérez, Cape
quick-return belt
rage against
re-statements
repetitive DNA
seasonal power
serraillier
showest
small ocmmunications terminal
speed-of-light circle
statement of loss and gain
suberinization
t function
Thaton
thin paste
total mechanical impedance
traction handle for obstetric forceps
transverse shielding
trimly
tube push bench
unsublimed
vector-cardiograph
Withnail and I