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
a nap hand
address decoding circuitry
adsorbens
air-conditioning unit
aliphatic hydrocarbon metabolism
anhydrite halo-
autem dipper
bahane
baptistical
bar reinforcement
baseball swings
benthoss
blue sea
brake weight
cache cluster size
capnography
carbon dioxide cooled graphite moderated reactor
Chaetopterus
circuit-breaker failure protection
CL-440
cladrastis luteas
clay film
codde
connecting film
cow-bezoar
Cuferco
darkfic
decorement
denationalisations
Dendrobium equitans
Desire hath no rest.
discharge coil
dot area
erasuer
explosive power
fault tree analysis (fta)
ferociousness
fireformed
galvanized steel wire rope clip
genocide
Gregory's powder
group lead track
Guarnieri bodies
horrisonous
hot carriers
hypersensitization
idiot
iea
indirect discrimination
induction receiver
informaticians
inhumanly
intestinal tympanites
IT audit
Jouy-aux-Arches
lalophoniatrician
laurel forest zone
laycocks
life-peer
likable
LLA (low level alarm)
lobulated tongue
lymphoglandulae subinguinales superficiales
metric limit
mid-ocean canyon
morn-ing
nearest neighbour sequence analysis
out of the wood
outside seal
potential peak coolant concentration
radio interference voltage measurement
reformedly
resident development system program
residential heating
return home
rhythmites
right brachiocephalic vein
road test method of smoke measurement
rooley
round horizon
set up home
slsests-s
sodium polymannuronate
stimulated Rayleigh scattering
suberinlamellae
swine-bread
t'best
thieblot
thorium bromide
Thyrill
thysanuron
torridities
transformer starter
ultrarightism
universal joint center ball pin
urea plastic molding compound
vettraino
violet pigment
walk someone off their feet
water channel
xxviis