时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   毕业季,我们就来说说毕业吧。很多人觉得美国大学是宽进严出。大学绝对不是混日子的地方。那么美国大学生辛苦4年都在干什么?最后的毕业典礼又是怎么庆祝的?


  美国应届毕业生的困扰
  重点词汇:
  Graduate: 毕业
  Graduation ceremony: 毕业典礼
  University: 大学
  College: 大学(美语)
  Liberal arts school: 小型的人文科大学, 美国很多顶尖的私利大学都是这种liberal arts school .
  Under-grad: 本科
  Post-grad: 本科以上学位
  Grad school (graduate school): 本科以上的学院。比如研究生、博士生在读,你可以说"I'm going to grad school."
  Freshmen 1: 大一生
  Sophomore 2: 大二生
  Junior: 大三生
  Senior: 大四生
  Internship 3: 实习
  Coop: 带有强制实习制度的学位。美国大学不强制所有大四生实习。但是coop program就是有实习成分的,通常要实习满两个semester(学期)。通常商科、理工科的coop项目多一些。
  Mortarboard: 毕业帽
  Graduation robe/gown: 毕业袍
  Valedictorian: 德智体美劳全面开花的学霸,一届毕业生只选一个。通常在毕业典礼上做毕业演讲
  Valedictory 4: 上面这个学霸做的毕业演讲
  Commencement speech: 欢迎大一新生的开学演讲,有名的大学同场会找名人,乔治克鲁尼、乔布斯、奥巴马都做过这类演讲。
  Year book: 毕业纪念册
  Most likely to succeed: 班级评选日后最有可能成功的人
  Class clown: 班级的开心果、最搞笑的人
  College Reunion: 大学同学会
  Dorm: 宿舍
  Fraternity: 美国大学的兄弟会
  Sorority: 美国大学的姐妹会
  Gained weight: 发福
  Bald: 秃头

n.(中学或大学的)一年级学生( freshman的名词复数 )
  • We are freshmen and they are sophomores. 我们是一年级学生,他们是二年级学生。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • University freshmen get lots of razzing, but they like the initiation. 大一新生受各种嘲弄,但是他们对这种入门经验甘之如饴。 来自辞典例句
n.大学二年级生;adj.第二年的
  • He is in his sophomore year.他在读二年级。
  • I'm a college sophomore majoring in English.我是一名英语专业的大二学生。
n.实习医师,实习医师期
  • an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
  • a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习
adj.告别的;n.告别演说
  • He made a valedictory address after two years as chairman.在担任主席职务两年后他发表了告别演说。
  • This valedictory dispatch was written as he retired from the foreign service a few weeks ago.这份告别报告是他几周前从外交界退休时所写的。
学英语单词
a implies b gate
abdominal mouth (uterine tube)
acousticolateralis
agranular blood cells
air blast freezer
alnuss
anode break-down voltage
anti-nationalism
antiderivatives
aphis
asbestos-cement gutter
aversive stimulus
back to the future
Barron's Confidence Index
be half the battle
Bernard's center
bizhan
blowin' it
boobies
bornyl chloride
campanula tracheliums
Canalis palatovaginalis
casing log
cassawa
catayle
cone center
core flooding
CTL
cyano radical
datacubes
delivery rate of erosion
dental antrum
dimethyl arsenic cyanide
dinitrocyclohexylphenol
directional antenna circuit
dyason
electronics product
equalization treatment
ethyl cellulose plastics
feed water storage tanks
fibrovascular system
Free Exercise Clause
freight transport contract
fresh catalyst hopper
fugacity of B in a gaseous mixture)
function computer and client computer
functional load
Gentiana pubiflora
genus Helichrysum
genus Parasitaxus
hallpike
hemiataxy
iPodLinux
jet weaving machine
jolle
kinesitherapies
liquid thermal diffusion
long valley
loop topology
magnetogenesis
marble surface
midweights
miers theory
misadjustments
moving coil pickoff
multimachine library
myriarchs
neo-colonialist
nozzle dribbling
off-axis collimated system
on one's fence
out-of-order signal
over-bitten
phronimella elongata
plasticity constant
prosoposchisis
put something to bed
quirks
quotation of exchange rates
rescue home
respiratory distress syndrome
rhizomorphoid
rose aphid
rustre
scan registration
schismatogobius ampluvinculus
Shenute
sprinkler leakage legal liability insurance
Stakhanovets
suberectus
supersolutions
swanimote
synoptic terrain photography
teillays
ultimate operational capability
ultraviolettherapeuticlamp
underbet
underland
wch.
Weingarten rights
Woodenbong
x-ray diffraction topographic camera