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。
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学英语单词
absterge
acclivitous column
acquired variation
active participle
Apache Incubator
apoplutnian
Auer's bodies
be pressed with want
benzofenap
bondholders
broad vascular ray
brotherred
buckery
card code set
cast loading
chandleries
change-tune switch
cooked with gas
davit keeper
desolately
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
eanlings
echo strength
electronic money settlement fee
emollience
Erysiphaceae
Euro-skeptical
evaluate
everfrost
exloosive
feel the heat
first violin
forestalment
funneled pipe
gainasp laser
genetic hypertension strain
graphic accent
heat absorption rate profile
hebdomads
high officiency turbine
hired man
Hoengdo
hypoammonemia
hypoprothrombinemia
IGGP
inborn disease
Indiangrass
intersecting peneplain
intervertebral fibro-cartilage
Jala Jala
jinsiyya
kanungo
kinmels
l'annonce
law of least square
leg of test rig
linctus chloroformi et morphinae compositus
liquid laser cell
liver enzyme activity
mki
morbus ecdemicus
myelomenia
negated
occupational cluster
on the lift
Outeiro
P. & F.
passenger car usage survey
periodic inspection of tooling
pick-up arm
pillotina
pit liner
portrayings
price level change
quadrangular prisms
raggle-taggle
raptorial feeders
retreat from
rouche
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satchmo
secondary heat exchanger
secure an adequate supply
self-regulating feedback control
sieve plates
silhouette
Slavic language
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statutory
suffrutescent(suffruticose)
supply a gap
syntectonic clastic wedge
Tanashi
tele-rings
the Commonwealth
the jacks
top-down block structure
Tragia
tribalization
Triple Spot Test
venritidine
wheel skid