时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Jessica在北京学中文,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天怡茹要问的是跟考试相关的表达。


Jessica: 怡茹,why do you look so tired?
YR: 这几天又复习又考试,累得我眼睛都快睁不开啦!昨天晚上,我复习了一个通宵啊!I drove a night car!
Jessica: You drove a night car?
YR: 对啊!我开了一宿夜车!难道不是这么说的?
Jessica: 哈哈,you should use the phrase "pull an all-nighter." It means you spent the whole night studying or working to meet a deadline.
YR: 哦,整宿学习工作不睡觉,就是pull an all-nighter. 唉!都怪我平时没好好复习,期末考试前只能临时抱佛脚!
Jessica: You're not alone, Yiru! A lot of college students pull all-nighters for exams. You can also use the phrase "cram 1 session." It means an intense period of study before a critical exam.
YR: C-r-a-m, cram, 是仓促备考的意思,所以 a cram session 就是考前的突击复习。正说呢,My study group will have a cram session this afternoon for tomorrow's exam. Hopefully we can get everything done before midnight so that I don't have to pull an all-nighter again!
Jessica: Take it easy, Yiru. Isn't your exam tomorrow an open-book test?
YR: Open-book test? 哦,你是说开卷考试吧?没错,这门是开卷,可老师对开卷考试的答案要求更高。我可不想考砸了!
Jessica: You won't bomb it. You're a smart girl!
YR: 你说“bomb"--那不是轰炸的意思么?我猜这就是说没考好,对么?
Jessica: Exactly.
YR: 那要是不及格,挂科了,怎么说呢?
Jessica: Then you can use the verb "flunk 2", f-l-u-n-k, flunk. It means you fail to pass an exam.
YR: I don't want to flunk my exam, so---I gotta go!
Jessica: Before you go, tell me what you've learned today!
YR: 第一,开夜车,通宵学习工作,叫 pull an all-nighter; 考试前的突击复习叫 cram session;第二,开卷考试是 open-book test;第三,考试考砸了用动词 bomb, 不及格则用 flunk!

v.填塞,塞满,临时抱佛脚,为考试而学习
  • There was such a cram in the church.教堂里拥挤得要命。
  • The room's full,we can't cram any more people in.屋里满满的,再也挤不进去人了。
v.(考试)不及格(=fail)
  • I will flunk him if my student doesn't learn the material in the course.如果我的学生没有掌握课程的内容,我就会让他不及格。
  • If you flunk finals,you don't get the chance to do them again.如果你没通过期末考试,就没有机会再考一次了。
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accommodation way
Achnamoine, Loch
agrimensors
amaz
array
Aschoff node
at cross purpose
balassa
balljoint
be one in a million
Beard's treatment
bearing shim
biaxial homology
bilinear programming problem
Bostānābād
bum fun
butterfly tuner type frequency meter
cala pass
campound
cantus planus
Cartesian equation
Chergui, Chott ech
cleaning diskette
co-volume
compressive strained quantum well
construction of model
controlling rope
corner halving
covert coating
defazio
degree of freedom of robot
diffusion house
dodonaeas
double cross flow
double inequality
duplex-diode pentode
engagement sleeve
engineering ship
entering behavior
extraoral fistula
flexible use of tracks
flow of control
forestam
fox hunting
fractionate tower
frequency-indicating device
going down on
Hambaeksan
hanuman
heloenzyme
home service
Imilanyle
iodizer
Jenny Lind
khoi (khvoy)
land of strangers
lob-
Lowenberg's sarcina
macrolepidopteras
manipulation of polynomials
masalha
Maschil
maximum entropy spectrum analysis
mud fish
multi-chain condensation polymer
neuro-epithelial cell
non-strictly competitive two person game
opesium
overlived
pathololgy
Paulino Neves
polarizing mirror
potato-trap
predried
problem complexity
propeller pitch
pulse-width-modulation transistor
pureza
radix angelicae anomalae
realleged
right to know
sciograph
somatic mesoblast
speed increasing gear
speeded
state-centered theory
steel hawser
steel-backed bronze-faced washer
sum of products
teaching-oriented
teletypewriter exchanger
Torchyn
two-dimensional transform
varly
veena
WA (warm air)
waste gas tube
water injector for coal train
waxed parchment
wheee
wheel ailgnment
zabecki