英语笑话听力+文本："哪个车胎爆了?which tire was flat?"

[00:10.46]Which tire was flat 哪个车胎爆了？
[00:21.81]词汇扫描
[00:25.81]Community 社区
[00:29.33]Flat tire 爆胎
[00:33.11]Understanding 通情达理的
[00:38.99]英文原文
[00:39.78]Four students walked in halfway¹ through the American history test
[00:43.46]my father was giving at the local community college.
[00:46.10]"Sorry," they said, "we had a flat tire."
[00:48.85]An understanding man,
[00:50.29]Dad said that if they could all answer just one question correctly,
[00:53.89]he would give them each an A for the exam.
[00:56.51]The students agreed.
[00:57.80]So my father handed each one a piece of paper,
[01:00.31]placed them in four separate² corners and said,
[01:02.37]"Write down which tire was flat."
[01:07.72]中文大意
[01:44.67]逐句对照
[01:48.81]Four students walked in halfway through the American history test
[01:52.33]my father was giving at the local community college.
[02:03.80]"Sorry," they said, "we had a flat tire."
[02:09.91]An understanding man,
[02:11.24]Dad said that if they could all answer just one question correctly,
[02:14.90]he would give them each an A for the exam.
[02:25.73]The students agreed.
[02:27.08]So my father handed each one a piece of paper,
[02:29.43]placed them in four separate corners and said,
[02:31.50]"Write down which tire was flat."
[02:46.02]多学一点
[02:49.70]community 社区
[02:52.25]community college 社区大学
[02:54.88]community 居民区
[03:09.55]Tragedy strikes the swimming community.
[03:14.32]community
[03:23.31]flat tire 爆胎
[03:28.22]flat 平的
[03:30.15]flat tire
[03:36.56]understanding 通情达理
[03:43.87]understanding 理解
[03:47.91]My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
[03:57.58]重新听一次故事原文
[04:00.39]Four students walked in halfway through the American history test
[04:03.51]my father was giving at the local community college.
[04:06.79]"Sorry," they said, "we had a flat tire."
[04:09.43]An understanding man,
[04:10.91]Dad said that if they could all answer just one question correctly,
[04:14.34]he would give them each an A for the exam.
[04:16.96]The students agreed.
[04:18.32]So my father handed each one a piece of paper,
[04:20.88]placed them in four separate corners and said,
[04:22.81]"Write down which tire was flat."

1 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

2 separate   

n.分开，抽印本；adj.分开的，各自的，单独的；v.分开，隔开，分居

参考例句：

• Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的？
• Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。