时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力文摘 English Digest


英语课

  I've recently spoken very directly with a few of my students about a malady 1 that afflicts 2 a certain small percentage of students in that final run of days that lead to the big one: GRADUATION DAY. That malady is not the dreaded 3 H1N1 virus, nor bronchitis, appendicitis 4, or tonsillitis. No, the malady of which I speak is known as "senioritis." Senioritis is an affliction that can treat college and high school seniors the way a fly swatter treats flies. Everything is buzzing along fine and dandy, and then, bam! The symptoms of senioritis are well known. They include an all but irresistible 5 urge to cut classes and ignore due dates for homework and presentations. Students in the throes of senioritis often feel a profound sense of lethargy. Right out of the blue, seniors about to graduate suddenly become candidates for the Nobel Prize in Absenteeism. Stricken with senioritis, some young scholars are unable to lift a single finger or take a single step forward. A severe case of senioritis may actually sink an ordinarily cheerful and energetic senior into a bottomless pit of listlessness and languor 6. "Seniors," runs my advice these days, "treasure these last laps between now and June. Keep pumping those knees. The finish line is near. Don't stop yet. Don't be an absentee."

malady:疾病,社会歪风

dreaded:可怕的

symptom:症状

lethargy:嗜睡,无生气

absenteeism:旷课

lap:一圈

fly swatter:苍蝇拍

to cut class:翘课

to lift a finger:举手之劳



n.病,疾病(通常做比喻)
  • There is no specific remedy for the malady.没有医治这种病的特效药。
  • They are managing to control the malady into a small range.他们设法将疾病控制在小范围之内。
使受痛苦,折磨( afflict的名词复数 )
  • Level 3-Afflicts a target with the Curse of the Silent. 三级-用静默诅咒折磨一个目标。
  • Level 1-Afflicts a target with the Curse of the Silent. 一级-用静默诅咒折磨一个目标。
adj.令人畏惧的;害怕的v.害怕,恐惧,担心( dread的过去式和过去分词)
  • The dreaded moment had finally arrived. 可怕的时刻终于来到了。
  • He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital. 他害怕非得在医院过圣诞节不可。 来自《用法词典》
n.阑尾炎,盲肠炎
  • He came down with appendicitis.他得了阑尾炎。
  • Acute appendicitis usually develops without relation to the ingestion of food.急性阑尾炎的发生通常与饮食无关。
adj.非常诱人的,无法拒绝的,无法抗拒的
  • The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前,势不可挡。
  • She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。
n.无精力,倦怠
  • It was hot,yet with a sweet languor about it.天气是炎热的,然而却有一种惬意的懒洋洋的感觉。
  • She,in her languor,had not troubled to eat much.她懒懒的,没吃多少东西。
学英语单词
'Alīābād
.acp
135 camera
a gift of nature
administration of physical education
advcince(d) firing
after-school club/childcare club/ homework club
aldehyde ammonia
alter-route
augen
Auki
avicide
be afloat again
biquadrate
Bluetooth headset
bonily
Boolean sum
branch and bound strategy
branch of a circuit
bring ruin upon oneself
carbide tipped lathe tool
Carisel
catastrophal
caunch
chics
CIFS
clatched
comprehensive wealth tax
contraction pyrometer
cosmoline
cyanids
de-graduation
deductivistic
diesel engine reversing gear
dmam
doria strip
dynamic scope
epithelioid vestige
equivalent samples
ethynylestradiol
everley
exient
faulring
fireeaters
flat tea roasting machine with many groove type
forenamed
forgey
galloping 1 and 0
get fit
hard sphere theory
hardware-independents
hexagonal brick
hirsuta
hydrocarbon-based solution
jadarite
jewelry stores
job commuting
kissing bugs
lattice heterogeneity
LBCD
lepidolejeunea bidentula
longliner
low altitude detection
mamey-apple
man-to-man method
Mercaptovaline
net wing area
nicolais
Old Kilcullen
ostreo-
phanerochaete canolutea
pharmaca
photochemistry of man-made polymers
prophanities
pyospermia
rat kangaroos
recompletes
retarding field oscillator
rising slopes
ruti
securities issuance market
serdge
simplified automatic data plotter
speech signal processing
stage-like
static pin
statistical graph of program
stripps
target radial speed
thicker
toeboards
transport service definition
trispinosa
tristate
UCHs
unnecessity
visual target
w-league
wear-test machine
wood protection in storag
Yushania pauciramificans
zoarchaeologist