时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文


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[00:02.39]Top 10 Odd College Courses

[00:05.03]College courses aren't all Economics and The History of Europe.

[00:10.21]A trend among many colleges and universities is to offer courses

[00:14.35]that are slightly off the beaten track.

[00:16.62]Many of these courses draw their themes from pop culture or sports,

[00:20.57]or they may be the brainchildren of professors

[00:23.67]who want to share their passion with students.

[00:25.82]They may be no less serious than traditional courses,

[00:29.31]but they certainly cover new academic ground.

[00:32.42]Students take these offbeat 1 courses for a variety of reasons—

[00:36.54]hoping for an easy A, to try something fun,

[00:39.96]or to explore a new interest.

[00:42.37]Underwater Basket Weaving may be an urban legend,

[00:45.62]but these ten unusual courses are for real:

[00:48.81]1) You can boldly go where no other philosophy student

[00:54.53]has gone before in Georgetown University's

[00:57.60]“Philosophy and Star Trek” course,

[01:00.34]where students discuss the nature of time travel,

[01:02.51]the ability of computers to think and feel,

[01:05.50]and other philosophical 2 dilemmas 3

[01:08.15]facing the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

[01:10.08]2) Discover how Brick really felt

[01:14.11]when Opal left him for his neighbor's best friend's sister

[01:16.75]in the University of Wisconsin's course entitled

[01:19.97]“Daytime Serials 4: Family and Social Roles”.

[01:23.82]Students analyze 5 the plots, themes,

[01:26.91]and characters of daytime soaps

[01:28.85]and discuss their impact on modern life.

[01:31.59]3) If you've been longing 6 to research how hot dogs,

[01:35.51]theme parks, and the five-day workweek have impacted

[01:39.26]American leisure culture, check out

[01:41.79]the University of Iowa course “The American Vacation”.

[01:45.02]This course pays particular attention to

[01:47.53]how American families' varying backgrounds

[01:50.70]shape their vacation experiences.

[01:53.15]4) Bowdoin College students can delve 7 into

[01:55.80] “The Horror Film in Context” in the school's English Department.

[02:00.03]Students read Freud and Poe and watch Hitchcock and Craven,

[02:03.72]all while discussing the horror genre's treatment of gender 8,

[02:07.02]class, and family.

[02:08.75]5) At Williams College, students can learn more about those

[02:14.33]in the cement shoe industry by enrolling 9 in

[02:16.88]“Comparative History of Organized Crime”,

[02:19.79]which compares the work of goodfellas from the United States,

[02:23.02]Italy, Japan, and Russia.

[02:25.42]6) If you've got a romantic urge for adventure,

[02:29.81]check out Barnard College's course on “The Road Movie”,

[02:33.50]which studies Easy Rider and Thelma and Louise,

[02:36.58]while also discussing the genre's literary precursors 10,

[02:39.92]like On the Road and The Odyssey 11.

[02:42.37]7)If hitting the road doesn't satisfy your rebellious 12 streak 13,

[02:47.41]sign up for Brown University's course on “American Degenerates”,

[02:51.65]in which students discuss how early British-American writers

[02:55.81]embraced the grotesque 14, monstrous 15,

[02:58.22]“not our kind” status bestowed 16 on them by the mother country

[03:02.19]and reflected their zeal 17 for cultural and physical degeneracy

[03:06.48]in their literature.

[03:07.94]8) Those artsy types at the Rhode Island School of Design

[03:11.99]can put down their paintbrushes

[03:14.11]and take “The Art of Sin and the Sin of Art”

[03:17.48]which contemplates 18 the relationship between sin and the art world.

[03:21.10]The course catalog invites you to

[03:23.67]“lust with the saints and burn with the sinners”.

[03:26.92]9) If talking about death several times a week

[03:30.75]in class sounds like a good time to you,

[03:33.16]try Purdue University's “Death and the Nineteenth Century” course.

[03:37.92]Every poem and novel in the course

[03:40.32]deals with the 19th-century conception

[03:42.99]of mortality and the world beyond.

[03:45.40]10) At Centre College in Danville, Kentucky,

[03:49.87]students can take “Art of Walking”,

[03:52.59]in which students not only read literature

[03:55.45]by noted 19 perambulators like Kant and Nietzsche,

[03:58.21]but go for neighborhood strolls with their professor and his dog.

[04:02.02]Most college programs offer interesting courses

[04:05.05]to introduce you to new and fascinating subject matters.

[04:08.30]Take advantage of the many possibilities offered to you

[04:11.95]by sitting down with your advisor 20 to

[04:14.85]talk about course options and then really thinking

[04:17.71]about the courses you choose to take.



1 offbeat
adj.不平常的,离奇的
  • She adores old,offbeat antiques.她非常喜欢那些稀奇古怪的老古董。
  • His style is offbeat but highly creative.他的风格很不寻常但非常有创造力。
2 philosophical
adj.哲学家的,哲学上的,达观的
  • The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
  • She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。
3 dilemmas
n.左右为难( dilemma的名词复数 );窘境,困境
  • They dealt with their dilemmas by mixing perhaps unintentionally an explosive brew. 他们――也许是无意地――把爆炸性的佐料混合在一起,以此来应付困难处境。 来自辞典例句
  • Ten years later we encountered the same dilemmas in Vietnam. 十年后,我们又在越南遇到了同样进退两难的局面。 来自辞典例句
4 serials
n.连载小说,电视连续剧( serial的名词复数 )
  • The computer can alter the serials librarian and produce a bindery notice. 计算机可提醒管理连续出版物的馆员,并制作装订通知。 来自辞典例句
  • I realized I have started to like a few of their serials. 我意识到我已开始喜欢上了不少他们的连续剧。 来自互联网
5 analyze
vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
6 longing
n.(for)渴望
  • Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
  • His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
7 delve
v.深入探究,钻研
  • We should not delve too deeply into this painful matter.我们不应该过分深究这件痛苦的事。
  • We need to delve more deeply into these questions.这些是我们想进一步了解的。
8 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
9 enrolling
v.招收( enrol的现在分词 );吸收;入学;加入;[亦作enrol]( enroll的现在分词 );登记,招收,使入伍(或入会、入学等),参加,成为成员;记入名册;卷起,包起
  • They lashed out at the university enrolling system. 他们猛烈抨击大学的招生制度。 来自辞典例句
  • You're enrolling in a country club, Billy. 你是注册加入乡村俱乐部了,比利。 来自辞典例句
10 precursors
n.先驱( precursor的名词复数 );先行者;先兆;初期形式
  • Phenyl (or polyphenyl) substituted epoxides serve as excellent precursors to phenyl (or diphenyl) carbenes. 某些苯代(或多苯)环氧乙烷是制取带苯环(或二苯)碳烯的极好原料。 来自辞典例句
  • Note the presence of megakaryocytes, erythroid islands, and granulocytic precursors. 可见巨核细胞,红细胞岛和粒细胞前体细胞。 来自互联网
11 odyssey
n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险
  • The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
  • His odyssey of passion, friendship,love,and revenge was now finished.他的热情、友谊、爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了。
12 rebellious
adj.造反的,反抗的,难控制的
  • They will be in danger if they are rebellious.如果他们造反,他们就要发生危险。
  • Her reply was mild enough,but her thoughts were rebellious.她的回答虽然很温和,但她的心里十分反感。
13 streak
n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动
  • The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
  • Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹?
14 grotesque
adj.怪诞的,丑陋的;n.怪诞的图案,怪人(物)
  • His face has a grotesque appearance.他的面部表情十分怪。
  • Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.她对这件事的陈述是荒诞地歪曲了事实。
15 monstrous
adj.巨大的;恐怖的;可耻的,丢脸的
  • The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.浓烟开始盘旋上升,形成了一个巨大的烟柱。
  • Your behaviour in class is monstrous!你在课堂上的行为真是丢人!
16 bestowed
赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • It was a title bestowed upon him by the king. 那是国王赐给他的头衔。
  • He considered himself unworthy of the honour they had bestowed on him. 他认为自己不配得到大家赋予他的荣誉。
17 zeal
n.热心,热情,热忱
  • Revolutionary zeal caught them up,and they joined the army.革命热情激励他们,于是他们从军了。
  • They worked with great zeal to finish the project.他们热情高涨地工作,以期完成这个项目。
18 contemplates
深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的第三人称单数 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想
  • She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids. 她考虑为了孩子而离开。
  • Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. 事物的美存在于细心观察它的人的头脑中。
19 noted
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
20 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
学英语单词
Abdel
acceleration of ripening
additional advance
anecdotically
antiriot ammunition
apical bud
arecaceaes
augelli
average repair
Bankia spengler
bankruptcy administrator
basic lead sulphate
bilge logs
booster inoculation
bored shitless
boringly
chain and sprocket drive
Chalkedon
checking off symbol
CLMW
course-stability
cross rod
Curley
damper segment
declaratory judgments
deflection calculation
delivered free to destination
dietary-supplement
dress in
dust crops with an insecticide
emince
enterouterine anus
equitangential
faralatrioside
farbs
finely divided scale
folia vermis
heavy work
helius (helius) minusculus
Hose Connectors
hyperhomocysteinemic
intermolecular respiration
lava column
lead number
lends out
lenticel(le)
lywallzyme
macnee
magnitude spectrum
master screw
max sth out
mellower
memory error report analysis
movable appendage
naked-flame mine
nickel-vanadium steel
nominal ocular hazard area
oculometry
one pack
ordinary wheel
organizational climate index
over-grateful
over-indulged
overtowered
pattern representation
phenoxathin
phenylphosphine
pick-up attachment
pilot flame burner
pipeline stopcock
plash
pot-holder
preservative substance
pressure admission chamber
pressure of blast
Prohepes
pseudodiploidy
r.d
ramming up
rankine thermometric scale
riborg
righi-leduc effect
roricon
sclenchyma
self-illuminating sight
selfcontradictory
sniper
sousant
Subhanallah
sukhooei
Swap Curve
tahsildars
thermo anelasticity
three stages fluidized-bed dryer
toner concentration
unkissing
unvote
upright drill
visual agnosia
Wiener schnitzel
with a swing in it
worldless