听美剧学英语:《淘小子看世界》 I Dream of Feeny - 2

There is a look.

Don't tell me. You've died and come back as a bat with a perm.

This Hindu Yoga position increases blood flow to the brain, thus maximizing concentration and cognitive¹ performance. It's also quite a rush.

I am so nervous.

You? My palms are sweating so much, I can't read the answers I wrote on them.

I'm sensing an acute case of performance anxiety. No doubt brought on by complete lack of preparation.

Minkus? You can get all the As you want, it's still not gonna make you popular.

That's right, I can just hear you 10 years from now. People, people, how many times do I have to tell you if you save your receipts you won't have to worry about an audit²?

And I can hear you 10 years from now. Your honor, dude, I'd like to plea bargain.

Geek master.

Recidivist.

Good morning class, I am Miss Chase, your substitute teacher. Mr. Feeny will not be in today. He has taken ill.

Taken ill or faking ill, I mean the guy's never missed a day.

Maybe he heard about the school board's great deal on sick leave.

I'm afraid I don't have access to Mr Feeny's lesson plan. Can somebody please fill me in on what you're gonna do today?

Oh, Miss Chase, today we're supposed to take a geography...

Break! A break from geography.

And do nothing, but think about our lives and write a poem about them.

A short poem.

Two maybe, 3 lines tops.

And it doesn't even have to rhyme.

Is this true?

Yep.

Great. My major at the University of Pennsylvania was poetry. Epic³ poetry. In fact my dissertation⁴ was on Beowulf, an 8th century poem written in 3200 lines of old English. Let's see if we can knock out the first 1600 lines before lunch, shall we?

Ah..........

Words & Information:

perm: If you have a perm, your hair is curled and treated with chemicals so that it stays curly for several months.
audit: When an accountant audits⁵ an organization's accounts, he or she examines the accounts officially in order to make sure that they have been done correctly. Audit is also a noun.
recidivist: A recidivist is someone who has committed crimes in the past and has begun to commit crimes again, for example after a period in prison.
tops: at most.

1 cognitive   

adj.认知的，认识的，有感知的

参考例句：

• As children grow older,their cognitive processes become sharper.孩子们越长越大，他们的认知过程变得更为敏锐。
• The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works.认知心理学者倒很像一个需要通晓钟表如何运转的钟表修理匠。

2 audit   

v.审计；查帐；核对；旁听

参考例句：

• Each year they audit our accounts and certify them as being true and fair.他们每年对我们进行账务审核，以确保其真实无误。
• As usual,the yearly audit will take place in December.跟往常一样，年度审计将在十二月份进行。

3 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

4 dissertation   

n.（博士学位）论文，学术演讲，专题论文

参考例句：

• He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.他目前正在写一篇关于索马里内战的论文。
• He was involved in writing his doctoral dissertation.他在聚精会神地写他的博士论文。

5 audits   

n.审计，查账( audit的名词复数 )v.审计，查账( audit的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Requires that use of all bond funds is subject to independent audits. 需要使用的所有债券基金是受独立审计。 来自互联网
• Support the locations during customer-visits, audits and quality-improvement programs. 支持客户参观，稽核和提高品质等项目。 来自互联网