大豆油作燃料的汽车

The star at last week’s Philadelphia auto¹ show wasn’t a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car. Performance and practicality under a single hood² - car buyers have been waiting decades for this.

Anything goes 0 to 60 in four seconds - that piques³ my interest.

Yeah, I don’t think you could do that with a hybrid⁴.

I like it. It does get 51 miles to a gallon and on soybean bio-diesel to boot.

This is fabulous⁵ that they've done. I think they did one hell of a job.

So, who do we have to thank? Ford⁶? Toyota? Ferrari? Nope! Just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, these high school auto shop students along with a handful of other kids from West Philadelphia High School, built the car as an after-school project. It took them over a year, rummaging⁷ for parts, configuring wires, learning as they went.

All these rubber mouths, mount the motor to the frame.

Impressed? Teacher Simon Hauger says, wait till you hear this: we have a number of high school dropouts, we have a number that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with us.

Kosi Harman was in a gang at his old school, a punk and a terrible student.

Agree. I was just getting by the skin of my teeth, C’s and D’s. I came here, and now I’m a straight-A student.

Really?

Yes, sir.

Take the brief or put the Proper.

If you give kids that have been stereotyped⁹ as not being able to do anything an opportunity to do something great, they will step up.

They are clean, brake fluid are cool.

Obviously, this story says a lot about the potential of our young people. Unfortunately, it also says a lot about our auto industry. (Yeah.) Now start playing hybrid catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop.

Yeah, it hit me that, look, we made this work, we are not geniuses, so why aren’t other people doing it? Kosi thinks he knows. It’s big oil companies. (All right.)

They are making billions upon billions of dollars, right? And when this car sells, then their billions upon billions will go down to low billions upon billions.

stereotype⁸: decide unfairly that a type of person's inability to do sth due to their race, sex or social class. stereotype sb as sth

1 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

2 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

3 piques   

v.伤害…的自尊心( pique的第三人称单数 )；激起（好奇心）

参考例句：

• I understand practically everything, except one thing that piques my curiosity. 实际上，我什么都了解，只有一点除外，而且引起了我的好奇心。 来自飘（部分）
• He piques himself on having a good memory. 他常夸耀自己记性好。 来自辞典例句

4 hybrid   

n.(动，植）杂种，混合物

参考例句：

• That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
• The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。

5 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

6 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

7 rummaging   

翻找，搜寻( rummage的现在分词 )； 海关检查

参考例句：

• She was rummaging around in her bag for her keys. 她在自己的包里翻来翻去找钥匙。
• Who's been rummaging through my papers? 谁乱翻我的文件来着？

8 stereotype   

n.固定的形象，陈规，老套，旧框框

参考例句：

• He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
• There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。

9 stereotyped   

adj.(指形象、思想、人物等)模式化的

参考例句：

• There is a sameness about all these tales. They're so stereotyped -- all about talented scholars and lovely ladies. 这些书就是一套子，左不过是些才子佳人，最没趣儿。
• He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past. 它们是恐怖电影和惊险小说中的老一套的怪物，并且与我们的祖先有着明显的（虽然可能没有科学的）联系。