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
a nut
angle of the V-groove
ashling
Azcoitia
backchannelled
barotraumatic sinusitis
birthday-girl
bozo
breaks-in
browniest
carbon color test
cardiac tamponades
central site software structure
chance on
checked gingham cloth
circulating water line
dark-roasted
delivering information
district heat supply
duplex calculating
echo sampler
economic effects of advertising
enantiosymmetric polymerization
equidiurnal
European casual
exceptional potential
export promotion loan
exposure chart
filament-reinforced metal
fluid computers
frame of an engine
furiosity
ghanis
golf stroke
greeters
haemo
hellmuth
hemiphaedusa minutus
HETE-dG
high lift jack
huelvite (lacroisite)
immunoglkobulin
initials
intersternal
Jaworzyna
lactogenic substance
large-cap
leebos
Linde sieve tray
Luthersburg
macro cross-section
malacotic teeth
Malongwe
meliorative
mellifulous
motor-drive lathe
nineish
nongeometric curve
northern mammoth
nycum
occupational retirement scheme
online course
orale
orientation reversing
P&E
periodate lignin
phone-company
pohickory
pragmatique
predictive crash sensor
pressure-feed oiling
Primula pauliana
quantum theory of spectra
re-staging
refund by carrying a loss back to a prior year
RISC (reduced instruction set computer)
safe operating area
safety cut-off device
salve dressing
Solenostemon
space-bar
structure length
structured tutoring
subsoil agricultural drain
survey party
syllable articulation
syndiotactic placement
tallow amine acetate
test management protocol
the green
trachelium caeruleum
transportation-in
Trigo, Mte.
underfrocks
usability testing
valemen
Vargasite
wall resonance
world religions
Yaringa R.
zippily
Zuhres