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
-acusia
1. process
a bene placito
A. E. Housman
active biological film
active energy
aggregate purchasing power
antisludging
articles of incorporation
backwrap
banana sailfish
before one knows where one is
bosnia and herzegovina
brachymeria minuta
bringing up against
caracallas
chain-of-responsibility pattern
Charcot
Christmasy
complex beltconveyor
convective motion
cornel
corrales de rabago
Corynebacterium pertrophilum
countable base
courtable
creaketh
decision tree method
deejayed
deformation testing
dual regulation
emailloid
fault outcrop
flat-tax
fore-limbbud
four phase modulation
frost retarding layer
fulfil a task
gaugers
gibrel
Gilbert, Mt.
grodiest
handgriping
hanna
Hemichoreoathetosis
high density buffer
high-stringency
hmm
Hoengsong
homogeneous linear equation
horticultural sheet glass
inter-dealer
jugular embryocardia
keto-myo-inositol
kimberli
leporillus conditor
lymphonodi ilici
manager's check
mechanical booster
meet the needs
mianch fever
microinsularity
mile's law
misrules
molluscigerous
morlbillous
move inverse
neglected plot
ouedraogoes
outer frame
periphysis
photron
poet's jasmines
policy of least privilege
primary moisture separator
prophage subsitution
pseudohecogenin
rail profile recorder
reinduces
retrograde embolism
safety handle
scarce commodity
self relative addressing
servo-positioning
smarthole
snipper-snapper
southrop
sulcus for subclavian vein
survivorship biases
thyromental
transient shock wave
trichogene cell
Ulanova, Galina Sergeyerna
unsensibly
unspoused
unstabled
vault-worthy
weight differential
with one's last gasp
wreatt
Ylivieska