时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   毕业季,我们就来说说毕业吧。很多人觉得美国大学是宽进严出。大学绝对不是混日子的地方。那么美国大学生辛苦4年都在干什么?最后的毕业典礼又是怎么庆祝的?


  美国应届毕业生的困扰
  重点词汇:
  Graduate: 毕业
  Graduation ceremony: 毕业典礼
  University: 大学
  College: 大学(美语)
  Liberal arts school: 小型的人文科大学, 美国很多顶尖的私利大学都是这种liberal arts school .
  Under-grad: 本科
  Post-grad: 本科以上学位
  Grad school (graduate school): 本科以上的学院。比如研究生、博士生在读,你可以说"I'm going to grad school."
  Freshmen 1: 大一生
  Sophomore 2: 大二生
  Junior: 大三生
  Senior: 大四生
  Internship 3: 实习
  Coop: 带有强制实习制度的学位。美国大学不强制所有大四生实习。但是coop program就是有实习成分的,通常要实习满两个semester(学期)。通常商科、理工科的coop项目多一些。
  Mortarboard: 毕业帽
  Graduation robe/gown: 毕业袍
  Valedictorian: 德智体美劳全面开花的学霸,一届毕业生只选一个。通常在毕业典礼上做毕业演讲
  Valedictory 4: 上面这个学霸做的毕业演讲
  Commencement speech: 欢迎大一新生的开学演讲,有名的大学同场会找名人,乔治克鲁尼、乔布斯、奥巴马都做过这类演讲。
  Year book: 毕业纪念册
  Most likely to succeed: 班级评选日后最有可能成功的人
  Class clown: 班级的开心果、最搞笑的人
  College Reunion: 大学同学会
  Dorm: 宿舍
  Fraternity: 美国大学的兄弟会
  Sorority: 美国大学的姐妹会
  Gained weight: 发福
  Bald: 秃头

n.(中学或大学的)一年级学生( freshman的名词复数 )
  • We are freshmen and they are sophomores. 我们是一年级学生,他们是二年级学生。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • University freshmen get lots of razzing, but they like the initiation. 大一新生受各种嘲弄,但是他们对这种入门经验甘之如饴。 来自辞典例句
n.大学二年级生;adj.第二年的
  • He is in his sophomore year.他在读二年级。
  • I'm a college sophomore majoring in English.我是一名英语专业的大二学生。
n.实习医师,实习医师期
  • an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
  • a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习
adj.告别的;n.告别演说
  • He made a valedictory address after two years as chairman.在担任主席职务两年后他发表了告别演说。
  • This valedictory dispatch was written as he retired from the foreign service a few weeks ago.这份告别报告是他几周前从外交界退休时所写的。
学英语单词
amblyopia
Anson unit
antiradiation missile
artehs
arterial/venous
ASCAL
aspergillus terricola
atmospheric optics
auto-induced reaction
backward acting decoder
bacteriastrum elongatum
birinci sixli
bismuthotartrate
Biumenbach's plane
bodas
brake surface
british high commission
bunjara
Canzo
center mast
charles spencer
circulation of a bank
citrination
Cline's splint
Cnemidophorus exsanguis
coincide counter
cross-pollinate
danaite (cobaltoan arsenopyrite)
dead cat bounce
Decimomannu
dindas
distance echo correction
don't let the bedbugs bite
dyelines
earthy tripolite
EasyCAD
edge clocked D-type register
edge-file
enterobacter cloaca
ephedrina
fire and fagot
fossa
genus Cystophora
gold-black coating
Grifuvin
Guitry
historical profit
Hood River County
hoummous
icterus index
imperfectives
laikipias
liquid miscibility gap
lloyd's membership department
low temperature adiabatic calorimeter
lower resistance pH glasselectrode
macroprocessing
main tuning
Molevac
molten bath
morning loan
narrow neck
nongermanium
noodlers
Ober-Seemen
observation learning theory
one-step operation
outdoor play
oxynoid
p dot
pilot-ignition fuel
Plovdiv
pro-Arab
psychogogue
qgo
radial absorption
reactive volt-ampere meter
readvising
Rock Cornish hen
sales shipment transaction
secondary seal unit
selection approach
ship control console
Simra
strato-cirri
take charge of
tapioca pearls
theory of flexure
thermonuclear conditions
thiolato
tung tung
Umsong
undressed casting
Ur-ancestor
variabilities
vibrational state
vlasovite
waveguide corner
West Miami
within means
Yanūfī, Jab.al
zostrix