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
adjustable speed belt
adult variation
aedes (finlaya) albocinctus
aesthetic pubes surgery
anglo-saxon deities
apothem of a regular polygon
Apple-of-Peru
ballon club
Banswara
BAPI
bend ... knee
Biot's respiration
business objects language environment
byerley
capa
Carmen Alto
checkup
cis-test
clianthus
coarse half round file
cohereditary subcategory
control of investment
control position indicator
cotton base
crystal sauce
cultivated soil
d-sc
dahlke
deucosterol
distension cyst
domesticabilities
downward call
elastic bitumen
electro-pneumatic controller
enoding
enzyme labelling
erythronium dens-caniss
European put option
expression (husserl)
French shroud knot
Gaddafi, Muammar al-
gamma-ray compensated chamber
garabed
George Stubbs
gharazi
harmonic gear drive with radial gear meshing
hertpeny
in fetters
infinitely variable speed
insinuation of a will
interleaver
jato release cylinder
kallstrom
Kartik
kg (kilogram)
kmetia sesbaniae
Leontieff input-output econometric model
liquid slag producer
long-term damage
macro definition header statement
microseismometers
monumentalization
Muladu
neals
Nomuka
not for worlds
nuclear distortion
ohmic junction
oil-and-gas-bearing basin
peronella lesueuri
Phragmosporeae
podical
primary organism
primary solvent
profile broaching
pyroxene microtinite
quick feed
reduced dimension observer
restitution of performance after prescription
rotation of the highest income
sale contract
service rank
spent (ion exchanger) resin tank
stenothermy
strata suprapyramidale
subscale
succus entericus
super heavy quantum
supercision
time-charactaristic
time-controlled gain
tompkin
transitory neonatal hypoparathyroidism
traversite
TROGIDAE
unchamfered joint
undergo sb's trial for
valley-train terrace
Verde, Loma
voluntary muscle relaxant
world-making
zeibert