时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Jessica在北京学中文,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天怡茹要问的是跟考试相关的表达。


Jessica: 怡茹,why do you look so tired?
YR: 这几天又复习又考试,累得我眼睛都快睁不开啦!昨天晚上,我复习了一个通宵啊!I drove a night car!
Jessica: You drove a night car?
YR: 对啊!我开了一宿夜车!难道不是这么说的?
Jessica: 哈哈,you should use the phrase "pull an all-nighter." It means you spent the whole night studying or working to meet a deadline.
YR: 哦,整宿学习工作不睡觉,就是pull an all-nighter. 唉!都怪我平时没好好复习,期末考试前只能临时抱佛脚!
Jessica: You're not alone, Yiru! A lot of college students pull all-nighters for exams. You can also use the phrase "cram 1 session." It means an intense period of study before a critical exam.
YR: C-r-a-m, cram, 是仓促备考的意思,所以 a cram session 就是考前的突击复习。正说呢,My study group will have a cram session this afternoon for tomorrow's exam. Hopefully we can get everything done before midnight so that I don't have to pull an all-nighter again!
Jessica: Take it easy, Yiru. Isn't your exam tomorrow an open-book test?
YR: Open-book test? 哦,你是说开卷考试吧?没错,这门是开卷,可老师对开卷考试的答案要求更高。我可不想考砸了!
Jessica: You won't bomb it. You're a smart girl!
YR: 你说“bomb"--那不是轰炸的意思么?我猜这就是说没考好,对么?
Jessica: Exactly.
YR: 那要是不及格,挂科了,怎么说呢?
Jessica: Then you can use the verb "flunk 2", f-l-u-n-k, flunk. It means you fail to pass an exam.
YR: I don't want to flunk my exam, so---I gotta go!
Jessica: Before you go, tell me what you've learned today!
YR: 第一,开夜车,通宵学习工作,叫 pull an all-nighter; 考试前的突击复习叫 cram session;第二,开卷考试是 open-book test;第三,考试考砸了用动词 bomb, 不及格则用 flunk!

v.填塞,塞满,临时抱佛脚,为考试而学习
  • There was such a cram in the church.教堂里拥挤得要命。
  • The room's full,we can't cram any more people in.屋里满满的,再也挤不进去人了。
v.(考试)不及格(=fail)
  • I will flunk him if my student doesn't learn the material in the course.如果我的学生没有掌握课程的内容,我就会让他不及格。
  • If you flunk finals,you don't get the chance to do them again.如果你没通过期末考试,就没有机会再考一次了。
标签: 口语
学英语单词
acrospired
adequate accuracy
adjective dye
aggies
Atuel, R.
auditorial
australopithecines
barges train
bejart
belt fork lever
big big world
bird's eye
bolona
brachial plexus anesthesial
cadmium absorption
casefile
cashwise
chronic nonsuppurative destructive cholangitis
code independent system
Coelopidae
comparableness
Conflans-Ste-Honorine
curvefitting
cut and fill estimate
cutting across
cyclons
daylight - saving time
deck gang
Dick strip
direction lever
displeasurement
djakovo (dakovo)
electromagnetic phenomenon
ensuring
erotic dreams
Fair Dealer
feigns
fiumara
flase action
free water elevation
Fu Qingzhu works on obstetrics and gynecology
geopotential field
get an idea
hackled
hargeisas
harmonic filtration
henry valentine millers
heterogalactosidase
hoi-polloi
hot-cathode valves
Iganga
in-line hank of tubes
incorrectness
interpretative trace program
known as
malekith
marine radar band
mcelvany
megawatt-hour
Mercuranine
molybdoenzyme
non-dissipative stub
not be quite up to the mark
overhauled
oxide film lightning arrester
pfcrn
phonolith
principal sum of the bill of exchange
probabilistic potential theory
put somebody off
Pułtusk
quaintest
quick test for soil
rattleweed
refuge strategy
relieving tool holder
return-to-zero-time
Rhododendron micranthum
rio hondo
santilite (opal sinter)
schoenus apogon
shawn
shisty
slough-tissure
smogging
spin ball
stand-up meal
subjective effect in image coding
subsistence wages
suspirations
taking a joke
tea-growing
thanatorium
theory of utility
thiazolidine
thin wrapper
timmerman
wave-interference error
wedge compression coupler
wheel band
zero valence