英语小达人 276 Freshmen Vs. Seniors
大一新生Vs.高年级学生
Freshman 2: Is never in bed past noon.
大一新生：中午以后决不赖在床上。
Senior: Is never out of bed before noon.
高年级学生：中午以前决不起床。
Freshman: Reads the syllabus 3 to find out what classes he can cut.
大一新生：研究课程设置找找可以不用去上的课。
Senior: Reads the syllabus to find out what classes he needs to attend.
高年级学生：研究课程设置找到要去上的课。
Freshman: Calls the professor "Teacher."
大一新生：必恭必敬地管教授叫“老师。”
Senior: Calls the professor "Bob."
高年级学生：对教授直呼其名。
Freshman: Would walk ten miles to get to class.
大一新生：会走上10英里去上课。
Senior: Drives to class if it's more than three blocks away.
高年级学生：三个街区远的路程就得开车去。
Freshman: Memorizes the course material to get a good grade.
大一新生：熟记课程内容以取得好成绩。
Senior: Memorizes the professor's habits to get a good grade.
高年级学生：熟记教授的个人习惯以取得好成绩。
Freshman: Knows a book-full of useless trivia about the university.
大一新生：知道一大堆学校里流传的鸡毛蒜皮。
Senior: Knows where the next class is. Usually.
高年级学生：通常能够知道下节课在哪里上。
Freshman: Shows up at a morning exam clean, perky, and fed.
大一新生：衣冠楚楚、生机勃勃，而且吃饱了饭后来参加早上的考试。
Senior: Shows up at a morning exam in sweats with a cap on and a box of tarts 4 and a bottle of pop in hand.
高年级学生：一身臭汗，脑袋上顶着帽子，手里拿着汽水和一盒果饼冲进晨考的考场。
Freshman: Has to ask where the computer labs are.
大一新生：不得不问电脑机房在哪里。
Senior: Has own personal workstation.
高年级学生：有自己的工作室。
Freshman: Lines up for an hour to buy his textbooks in the first week.
大一新生：在开学的第一个星期里排一波里队买教材。
Senior: Starts to think about buying textbooks in October... maybe.
高年级学生：也许到10月才开始想起买课本的事。
Freshman: Looks forward to first classes of the year.
大一新生：盼望着本学期各科的第一节课。
Senior: Looks forward to first beer garden of the year.
高年级学生：盼望着本年度的第一次啤酒狂欢。
Freshman: Is proud of his A+ on Calculus 5 midterm.
大一新生：为自己在微积分期中考试得了A—+而感到自豪。
Senior: Is proud of not quite failing his Complex Analysts 6 midterm.
高年级学生：为自己的复合解析期中考试将将及格而扬扬自得。
Freshman: Conscientiously 7 completes all homework, including optional questions.
大一新生：认真完成所有的作业，包括选做题。
Senior: Homework? I knew I forgot to do something last night.
高年级学生：作业？我知道昨天晚上忘了做什么了。
Freshman: Goes on grocery-shopping trip with Mom before moving onto campus.
大一新生：在搬进校园前和妈妈一起去买食品杂货。
Senior: Has a beer with Mom before moving into group house.
高年级学生：在搬进合租房前和妈妈喝上一杯。
Freshman: Is excited about the world of possibilities that awaits him, the unlimited 8 vista 9 of educational opportunities, the chance to expand one's horizons and really make a contribution to society.
大一新生：对自己的发展前途、受教育机会的无限展望以及扩展见识和为社会真正 做出贡献的机会而感到兴奋。
Senior: Is excited about new dryers 10 in the laundry room.
高年级学生：为洗衣房里新添了烘干机而激动不已。
Freshman: Takes meticulous 11 four-color notes in class.
大一新生：上课时一丝不苟地记四色笔记。
Senior: Occasionally stays awake for all of class.
高年级学生：在所有的课上，偶尔会醒过来。
重点讲解：
1. line up
（使）（某一批人）排成行；（使）列队；
eg. The senior leaders lined up behind him in orderly rows.
高级将领整齐有序地在他身后站成几排。
eg. The gym teachers lined us up against the cement walls.
体育老师让我们靠着水泥墙排好。
2. show up
如约赶到；出现；露面；
eg. He always shows up in a fancy car.
他总是乘坐一辆奢华轿车露面。
eg. If I don't show up for class this morning, I'll be kicked out.
如果我今天上午不去上课，我就要被开除了。
3. make a contribution to
对……做出贡献；
eg. American economists 12 have made important contributions to the field of financial and corporate 13 economics...
美国的经济学家们在金融和企业经济学领域做出了重要的贡献。
eg. We must make a contribution to protecting the environment.
我们必须为保护环境作出贡献。
- 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
- Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
- He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。
- Have you got next year's syllabus?你拿到明年的教学大纲了吗？
- We must try to diversify the syllabus to attract more students.我们应该使教学大纲内容多样化，可以多吸引学生。
- I decided to make some tarts for tea. 我决定做些吃茶点时吃的果馅饼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They ate raspberry tarts and ice cream. 大家吃着木莓馅饼和冰淇淋。 来自辞典例句
- This is a problem where calculus won't help at all.对于这一题，微积分一点也用不上。
- After studying differential calculus you will be able to solve these mathematical problems.学了微积分之后，你们就能够解这些数学题了。
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- He kept silent,eating just as conscientiously but as though everything tasted alike. 他一声不吭，闷头吃着，仿佛桌上的饭菜都一个味儿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She discharged all the responsibilities of a minister conscientiously. 她自觉地履行部长的一切职责。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
- There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
- From my bedroom window I looked out on a crowded vista of hills and rooftops.我从卧室窗口望去，远处尽是连绵的山峦和屋顶。
- These uprisings come from desperation and a vista of a future without hope.发生这些暴动是因为人们被逼上了绝路，未来看不到一点儿希望。
- Men also have hair dryers and, if they suffer from baldness, they use a growth stimulator, buy hairpieces, or have hair transplanted from the hirsute part of the scalp to the bare areas. 男士也有他们的吹风机，而且如果他们秃顶的话，还会用毛发生长剂、买假发，或者把头发从密集的地方移植到谢顶的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The dryers can be automated. 干燥机可以自动化作业。 来自辞典例句
- We'll have to handle the matter with meticulous care.这事一点不能含糊。
- She is meticulous in her presentation of facts.她介绍事实十分详细。
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
- Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》