【英语趣味课堂】刻薄的教授-Mean Professor

Brett: Hey, Shawn, how are classes going?

 

Shawn: Well, it's exam time right now, and you know what, I really think I'm going to fail this one class.

 

Brett: Why is that?

 

Shawn: Well, it's not any of my fault. It's actually, I think that the teacher doesn't like me.

 

Brett: He doesn't like you. What do you mean?

 

Shawn: It's kind of strange, I mean, I go up and I ask him and he disagrees with me and but he actually takes personal offense¹ to what I say.

 

Brett: Personal offense.

 

Shawn: Which is funny, right.

 

Brett: What do you mean?

 

Shawn: Like, I'll give you an example. I went up because I didn't get a question on my homework right, and I asked him why I didn't get any marks for it, and the question in the book, asked you for your own opinion, so I did write my own opinion, but when I went up to talk to him about the question he said that what I had written wasn't in the book so I got no points for it.

 

Shawn: So what's the point of asking for your own opinion?

 

Brett: See, that's the funny part. I don't know.

 

Shawn: What about you? How are your classes going?

 

Brett: My classes are going OK. Right now I'm really just working on my thesis², and it's taking me a long time to gather all the materials, resources³, and go through all the readings, but it's going OK, I think.

 

Shawn: How many pages do you have to write for your thesis?

 

Brett: I probably have to write about twenty pages, or so, and I have to survey, about a thousand people and it's taking me a lot of time to analyze⁴ all that data.

 

Shawn: Twenty pages, that's not, is that double space or single space?

 

Brett: That's double space.

 

Shawn: So that's not that much.

 

Brett: Yeah, it's about 10,000 words, or so.

 

Shawn: Well, I hope you do well and good luck to your research.

 

Brett: Thank you.

1 offense   

n.犯规，违法行为；冒犯，得罪

参考例句：

• I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
• His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。

2 thesis   

n.论题，论点，论文

参考例句：

• His thesis is being finished off.他的论文快写完了。
• He argued his thesis well.他为他的论点进行了有力的辩论。

3 resources   

n.勇气；才智；谋略；有助于实现目标的东西；资源( resource的名词复数 )；[复数]物力；办法；来源

参考例句：

• The world's resources are rapidly diminishing. 世界资源正在迅速减少。
• a policy to equalize the distribution of resources throughout the country 使资源在全国分布均衡的政策

4 analyze   

vt.分析，解析 (=analyse)

参考例句：

• 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。