第663期:一句话的论文就得了A?

 很多在国外读大学的留学党们不是在赶due，就是在赶due的路上，因为大学里要提交的各种论文实在是太多了。今天分享一个小趣闻，一个国外的女大学生Allison, 用区区一个句话的论文竟然得了A！竟然得了A！不要太过分，太奇葩好不好？？

究竟为什么会这样呢？下面我们就一探究竟吧！

New Words:

review n.(对书籍、戏剧、电影等的) 评论;回顾;

be assigned¹ to do 被指派做…

essay n.(作为课程作业，学生写的) 文章，短文; 论说文;

fight club 搏击俱乐部

capitalize v.把…首字母大写;

relevant² adj.紧密相关的; 切题的;

College assignments often test our creativity. However, some students take it a little too far and even risk to fail a course. Luckily, there still are some professors who recognize and encourage their student's sense of humor³ and allow a little bit of fun. Allison Garret recently proved to be one of the lucky ones. She shared her assignment on twitter and it quickly went viral for all the right reasons.

大学作业经常考验我们的创造力。然而，有些学生则有些过分，甚至冒着失败的风险。幸运的是，仍有一些教授认可并鼓励学生的幽默感，并允许作业中存在一些乐趣。艾莉森·加勒特最近被证明是幸运儿之一。她在twitter上分享了她的作业，很快就火遍互联网。

For one of her college classes, Allison was assigned to write a movie review.

在艾莉森大学的一个课上，她被要求写一篇电影评论。

Allison was assigned to write a movie review, it was required for the essay to be at least 500 words long, however, she only wrote one sentence. However, everyone who has seen Fight Club, the movie she chose to review, knows that you probably cannot review it better than this.

艾莉森被要求写一篇影评，论文至少需要500字的长度，但她只写了一句话。然而，她选择的电影《搏击俱乐部》，只要知道这个电影的人都会觉得任何影评都没有艾莉森的这个影评好。

She chose to review Fight Club and decided⁴ to ignore all of the rules that apply to the assignment.

她选择写《搏击俱乐部》的影评并决定忽略所有适用于写论文的规则。

Her review reads:

她的评论写道：

Fight Club

The first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club.

That's it. That's the essay

搏击俱乐部

搏击俱乐部的第一条规则是：不要谈论搏击俱乐部。

就是这样。这就是论文

After giving it some though Allison's professor decided to give her 100/100 points for the essay. You have to admit, her approach to the assignment was quite witty⁵ and unconventional, but very suiting for the film she reviewed.

提交论文后，尽管艾莉森的教授决定给她这篇文章100/100分。你得承认，她完成任务的方式很机智，不墨守成规，非常适合她看的电影。

Luckily her college professor has a great sense of humor and decided to give her an A
幸运的是，她的大学教授很幽默，决定给她一个A。

Allison's post quickly went viral with over 153k likes and over 29k retweets
艾莉森的推特迅速传播开来，有超过153K的喜欢和超过29K的转发。

1 assigned   

adj.选定的；被布置的

参考例句：

• But read-only values are different,in that they are assigned at runtime.但是只读的值是不同的，因为它们是在运行时被赋值的。

2 relevant   

adj.有关的，贴切的

参考例句：

• I don't think his remarks are relevant to our discussion.我认为他的话不切我们的议题。
• These materials are relevant to the case.这些材料与这案件有关。

3 humor   

n.(humour)幽默，诙谐

参考例句：

• He is distinguished for his sense of humor.他以其幽默感著称。
• American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.美式幽默主要以夸张为基础。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 witty   

adj.机智的，风趣的

参考例句：

• Her witty remarks added a little salt to the conversation.她的妙语使谈话增添了一些风趣。
• He scored a bull's-eye in their argument with that witty retort.在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害。