【英语趣味课堂】大学-Big University

Todd: Now, Michael, I think you grew up California, right?

 

Mike: No, I didn't.

 

Todd: You didn't!

 

Mike: No.

 

Todd: I thought you were from Santa Barbara.

 

Mike: No, no. I was born in Cincinnati and I grew up, I grew up there and I lived from my teenage 

years in Michigan.

 

Todd: You're kidding.

 

Mike: So I'm a Midwesterner

 

Todd: wow, I didn't know that. I thought you were a fellow Californian native like me.

 

Mike: No, I've been here about ten years, but not native to this state, no.

 

Todd: Well, so what, you lived in Ohio, Cincinnati Ohio.

 

Mike: Cincinnati Ohio.

 

Todd: And Michigan.

 

Mike: And in Ann Arbor¹, Michigan.

 

Todd: Oh, you went to the University of Michigan?

 

Mike: Yeah, I graduated from the University of Michigan.

 

Todd: That's a good school.

 

Mike: It's a great school. Yeah, it's huge though. I think, you know, that's one thing when you come out of high school, and you go into this huge university, it's such a different environment. Like I remember the first year, I was pretty lost in how big everything was.

 

Todd: Now, Michael, a lot of people don't know about American football, but at your university, the university of Michigan, football is huge. Can you describe a typical Saturday football game? Like what happens at the stadium? What do students do?

 

Mike: Well, yeah, the stadium at Ann Arbor, at the University of Michigan, I think it holds a 102,000 people. Something like that. It's one of the biggest in the country.

 

Todd: That's mammoth².

 

Mike: And every game is sold out. It is, it's an incredible³ event, so yeah, all Saturdays are abuzz with excitement for the home games, and it's just a very big deal. The whole Michigan football program just generates⁴ a lot of excitement, generates a lot of money, right, and you know, to tell the truth, though, back when I went to Michigan, I wasn't a big football fan.

 

Todd: Oh, you weren't.

 

Mike: I actually never went to a home game.

 

Todd: No, really.

 

Mike: People ask me that and they can't believe it because,

 

Todd: No way.

 

Mike: It's such a big deal.

 

Todd: Yeah.

 

Mike: But you know, I was more of like a, I don't know what you call it, kind of hippie at the time, and we kind of distinguished⁵ between the jocks and, you know people who were interested in sports and the people who were interested in, what, culture of something like that, so I, at that time I wasn't into the football. I think now if I went back, I would love to see a football game.

 

Todd: Yeah. That's interesting. Man

 

Mike: But the Wolverines, the Michigan Wolverines, you know and a big source of pride for the University of Michigan.

 

Todd: Well, thanks for sharing that.

 

Mike: Sure

1 arbor   

n.凉亭；树木

参考例句：

• They sat in the arbor and chatted over tea.他们坐在凉亭里，边喝茶边聊天。
• You may have heard of Arbor Day at school.你可能在学校里听过植树节。

2 mammoth   

n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的

参考例句：

• You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
• Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。

3 incredible   

adj.难以置信的，不可信的，极好的，大量的

参考例句：

• Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
• Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。

4 generates   

v.生（儿、女）( generate的第三人称单数 )；（通过物理或化学过程）发生；生成；引起

参考例句：

• This new boiler generates more heat than the old one. 这个新锅炉产生的热量比旧锅炉多。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy. 原子反应堆发出大量的热能。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。