时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


英语课

 



[00:00.51]7.So Much to Learn


[00:04.43]It was the last day of final examinations in a large Eastern university. 


[00:10.97]On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors huddled 1, discussing the exam due to begin in a few minutes. 


[00:19.46]On their faces was confidence. This was their last exam — then on to commencement and jobs.


[00:28.94]Some talked of jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. 


[00:33.84]With all this assurance of four years of college, they felt ready and able to conquer the world.


[00:40.26]The approaching exam, they knew, would be a snap. 


[00:43.85]The professor had said they could bring any books or notes they wanted. 


[00:48.10]Requesting only that they did not talk to each other during the test.


[00:53.77]Jubilantly they entered into the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. 


[00:59.86]And smiles broadened as the students noted 2 there were only five essay-type questions.


[01:06.51]Three hours passed. Then the professor began to collect the papers. 


[01:12.06]The students no longer looked confident. 


[01:15.21]On their faces was a frightened expression. 


[01:18.70]No one spoke 3 as, papers in hand, the professor faced the class.


[01:24.58]He surveyed the worried faces before him, then asked: “how many completed all five questions?”


[01:32.64]Not a hand was raised.


[01:35.90]“How many answered four?”


[01:38.63]Still no hands.


[01:42.22]“Three? Two?”


[01:45.60]The students shifted restlessly in their seats.


[01:49.19]“One, then? Certainly somebody finished one.”


[01:53.22]But the class remained silent. The professor put down the papers. “that is exactly what I expected,” he said.


[02:04.54]“I just want to impress upon you that, even though you have completed four years of engineering. 


[02:11.62]There are still many things about the subject you don’t know. 


[02:15.78]These questions you could not answer are relatively 4 common in everyday practice.” 


[02:21.57]Then, smiling, he added: “you will all pass this course, but remember — even though you are now college graduates, your education has just begun.”


[02:33.17]The years have obscured the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.




1 huddled
挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
  • We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
2 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。
3 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
4 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
学英语单词
acronis
alderwood manor
Altnaharra
antipolarity
arbane
Arwala
assignable interest
backslashed
bedropping
beechwood creosote
by-street
carcerals
cathode lug
chloropsia
cladophora sakaii
clamp hook
code bar
conjugate series
controllable spark gap
creoles
customs flag
cuvet adapter
cylinder-type tank
day-school
denominator
diglycol aldehyde
electron cyclotron resonance heating
Estolate
expected life
follow something up
gasket piece-cutting machine
got the point
gypsyweed
high-speed ground transport system
HSPG
hydraulic tension regulator
intermediate switching region
intermittent moderate rain
laconicly
lavoy
lead disilicate
lunisolar tide
lyssacine
macaroon
marginal gingiva
mesenteric artery embolization
methallenstril
Minimum Investment
monetary and credit control
moonery
multipurpose timber-harvesting machine
neums
nonsmoothed
nonvolitional
over-allocations
overseas legal reserve
oxanthrenes
Pareto solution
Peoples Insurance Company of China
pixote
pneumatomete
Pnol
polytraumatism
portio dura
postcerebellar
potassium tartrate
power level control
pre-flight calibration
primordial gut
publishers requirements for industry standard metadata
Qomolangma, Mount
rakestraws
Ranunculus grandis
red fish
Remote Desktop Protocol
remove risers
residual shear strength
retinopathies
runabout
rupture velocity
Sanluri
saw guard
senior relative
sets on
shortsightedness
shutdown period
siphonapterology
SNA (systems network architecture)
station-line facilities
steam-turbine lubricating system
subitaneousness
synergisms
t.v.tuner
theoretical space relationship
Tillac
training system
tybamate
unbenefited
unbenign
variable-cell method
well-rewardeds
Yanadani