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
802.11i
accepting of data
acronymy
Agene process
americo
arrive at something
ashore driven
assist-feature
beat-gums
bipectinated
bossship
built in test equipment
campeachies
carrots and sticks
centimeters
chart equipment
childs
citiums
clawhand
colletive meal
Danilovka
definition range
drier-filter
f.i.s.c.s
facelifting
Faust's test
fawningly
fencing master
flambard
fractional coagulation
genus Acrocarpus
give a good example to
hecto-steradian
helical
Heraclean
hereditary cerebellar ataxia
historic-cost
homonormativity
hunting and gathering society
hydraulic drawing press
hydrotrioxides
igda
image-motion compensation
indirect export bounty
kolcraft
Kornilova, Mys
lithotroph
miniskirted
mother-and-son
nunny bag
offshore oil-gas bearing basin
Oro-shima
ostracoberyx dorygenys
over-funded
Oxydontia chrysella
Pachmann, Vladimir de
Peter Principle
pharyngeal diverticulum
plandocheckaction
polystoechotid
preapologize
projective abundance
prons
psi particle
radially symmetric filtering
rassh
reaationary
rheumatologists
right of ownership in movables
salzmann
saposhnikovia sage-inspired pill
sarracine-N-oxide
secas
see-sawings
size-zero
Sore in
spares for accommodation outfit
start-stop apparatus
statistical randomness
straddle carrier system
tanker liquefied methane gas
telescopic expansion joint
tension curves
tenuously
the twentieth century
thermal alkylation
Thiolan
tunica albuginea corporis spongiosi penis
two-throw crankshaft
under-leveraged
univers parameter
untimelier
vena cutaneas
vinylpyrrolidone
virtual instrumentation
warm blood
willits
wilson-hilferty transformation
xn
yeast cream
Yeeda River
zinc-plating material