双语有声阅读：So Much to Learn学无止境

“我只是想让你们留下一个深刻印象，尽管你们学完了四年工程学，仍然有很多这个专业的东西你们还不懂。你们回答不了的这些问题在日常应用中是相当普遍的。”接着，他微笑着说：“你们都将通过这门课，但是要记住——即使你已经大学毕业，你的教育也只不过是刚刚开始。”

 

So Much to Learn

 

It was the last day of final examination¹ in a large Eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering² seniors students wait it together, talking about the exam due to begin in a few minutes. On their faces was confidence. This was their last exam — then they'll fond the jobs.

 

Some talked of jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. With all this learning³ of four years of college, they felt ready and able to conquer⁴ the world.

 

The coming exam, they knew, would be a easy. The professor had said they could bring any books or notes they wanted. Asking only that they did not talk to each other during the test.

 

Happyly they crouded into the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. And smiles began biger as the students found there were only five questions.

 

Three hours passed. Then the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was a frightened expression. No one spoke⁵ as, papers in hand, the professor faced the class.

 

He looked the worried faces before him, then asked: “How many completed all five questions?”

 

Not a hand was raised.

 

“How many answered four?”

 

Still no hands.

 

“Three? Two?”

 

The students moved restlessly⁶ in their seats.

 

“One, then? Certainly somebody finished one.”

 

But the class kept silent. The professor put down the papers. “That is exactly what I expected,” he said.

 

“I just want to impress upon you that, even though you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the subject you don’t know. These questions you could not answer are very common in everyday practice.” Then, smiling, he added: “You will all pass this course, but remember — even though you are now college graduates, your education has just begun.”

 

The years have made the name of this professor unclear, but not the lesson he taught.

1 examination   

n.考试，考查，试题；检查，调查

参考例句：

• Teachers always judge their students on the final examination.老师常根据期末考试来评价他们的学生。
• He put up a good show in the final examination.他在期末考试中表现得不错。

2 engineering   

n.工程，工程学，管理，操纵

参考例句：

• The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
• It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。

3 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

4 conquer   

vt.克服，征服，战胜，占领；vi.得胜

参考例句：

• There is always one thing to conquer another.一物降一 物。
• Will can conquer habit.意志能战胜习惯。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 restlessly   

ad.不安定地，不安静地

参考例句：

• The children were squirming restlessly in their seats. 孩子们在位子上心神不定地动来动去。
• Her husband prowled about restlessly. 她的丈夫焦躁不安地来回踱步。