英语专业晨读美文-文化篇 11 Top 10 Odd College Cour
时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文
[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.
- 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。
- 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。
- 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
- 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
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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
- 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
- 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。
- 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。
- 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?
- 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。
- 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!
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。