时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:语言的力量


英语课
[00:00.00]The Best Teacher I Ever Had 我遇到的最好的老师
[00:05.41]Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science.
[00:10.00]On the first day of class,
[00:12.09]he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus,
[00:15.36]an animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age.
[00:18.53]He passed around a skull 1 as he talked.
[00:21.93]We all took notes and later had a quiz.
[00:23.91]When he returned my paper,
[00:25.65]I was shocked.
[00:26.52]There was a big red X through each of my answers.
[00:29.79]I had failed.
[00:30.79]There had to be some mistake!
[00:32.65]I had written down exactly what Mr. Whitson said.
[00:35.70]Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed.
[00:39.09]What had happened?
[00:40.74]Very simple, Mr. Whitson explained.
[00:42.93]He had made up all that stuff about the cattywampus.
[00:45.76]There had never been any such animal.
[00:48.07]The information in our notes was, therefore, incorrect.
[00:51.35]Needless to say, we were outraged 2.
[00:54.64]What kind of test was this?
[00:56.60]And what kind of teacher?
[00:58.14]We should have figured it out,
[00:59.87]Mr. Whitson said.
[01:01.41]After all, at the very moment he was passing around the cattywampus skull
[01:06.11](in truth, a cat’s),
[01:07.87]hadn’t he been telling us that no trace of the animal remained?
[01:11.36]He had described its amazing night vision,
[01:14.11]the color of its fur and any number of other facts he couldn’t have known.
[01:17.93]The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in his grade book,
[01:21.54]he said.
[01:22.41]And they were.
[01:23.29]Mr. Whitson said he hoped we would learn something from this experience.
[01:27.44]Teachers and textbooks are not infallible.
[01:30.60]In fact, no one is.
[01:32.47]He told us not to let our minds go to sleep,
[01:35.44]and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.
[01:39.04]Every class was an adventure with Mr. Whitson.
[01:42.09]I can still remember some science periods almost from beginning to end.
[01:46.46]One day he told us that his Volkswagen was a living organism.
[01:50.31]It took us two full days to put together a refutation 3 he would accept.
[01:54.47]He didn’t let us off the hook
[01:56.53]until we had proved not only that we knew what an organism was
[01:59.93]but also that we had the fortitude 4 to stand up for the truth.
[02:03.54]If I’m ever asked to propose a solution to the crisis 5 in our schools,
[02:07.69]it will be Mr. Whitson.
[02:09.49]I haven't made any great scientific discoveries,
[02:12.43]but his class gave me and my classmates something just as important:
[02:16.50]the courage to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong.
[02:20.33]He also showed us that you can have fun doing it.


n.头骨;颅骨
  • The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
  • He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去,跌裂了颅骨。
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
n.辩驳,反驳
  • The refutation is forceful and every word hits home.批驳有力,句句中的。
  • Truth fears no refutation.真理不怕人驳。
n.坚忍不拔;刚毅
  • His dauntless fortitude makes him absolutely fearless.他不屈不挠的坚韧让他绝无恐惧。
  • He bore the pain with great fortitude.他以极大的毅力忍受了痛苦。
n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
学英语单词
a backward step
accumulatively
adopt-a-school
amended running down clause
anti-fans
Antropovo
arbor wheel
audit project
bear in mind
belick
Bileh
blunderful
bockting
Brissus
broken amount
bromous
c type right-og-way
C. A.
CEPHA
chlorothiazole
cis-platinum
coded digital communication
constant-current distribution
current operation work center
cuts some slack
dead soft temper sheet
decimal decoding circuit
diary of the reporting household
dog-kennel
durantes
earnings-relateds
elevate oneself above others
expansion path of Cobb-Douglas production function
extrasin
fair queue
fatstock
fermacells
field emission
fluenter
Flussyttrocalcite
flux bubble
gelidness
GM_although-or-though
grid survey method
Guarneri Family
high toughness
icterus index
iminoethylornithine
korach
l-w
laxatives
Lebaneseness
local level
localized system
marginal cultivation
Martyn
match-up hypothesis
megaselia (megaselia) trochanterica
microclimates
modernization plan
multipurpose terminal
myrer
nested mold
nickel-free zircally-2
noise limitations
ocha
open freight storage
organizational location relationship value
over-wintered
paraelectrics
parties of democratic kampuchea
plane sliding
point of reflection on the curve
porthlevens
price ex-factory
PROTOPTERIDAE
rapid-cooling
rock yield
round copper bar
rovanpera
rubber coated fabric
sancho
screw templet
semantic line finder
sequential fuel injection system
serous secretion
setting vessel
silverworks
sling-chain
sound rangings
Spiradiclis
stream gaging station
subclass Eutheria
subordinate triad
sunset budgeting
syringe needle
tax deferral
third steward
truth in lending act
turbocharger matching test
Tweedsmuir, 1st Baron
upper right-hand quadrant