文档介绍：Cool Easy Speaking 轻松口语
Jack: Kevin, you don’t look happy at all.
What’s up?
Kevin: I can’t believe my eyes. I bombed
the math test. I had thought I would
get an A, but now…Professor
Burns took 15 points off in the last
question.
Jack: Take it easy. Professor is going to
explain the test today. Don’t worry.
Kevin: I am gonna ace the next test.
Cool Easy Speaking 轻松口语
What’s up? 怎么了?
I bombed the test.(我考砸了。)
相似的用法还有: I flubbed it.
I flubbed ,动词flub是“搞坏,失败”的意思,在句中引申为“考砸了”。
The teacher took 15 points off.(老师扣了我十五分。)
I am gonna ace the test next time.(下次要把它考好。)
Ace原指***纸牌中的王牌,在该句中ace the test 引申为“考得好”的意思。
Other Useful Expressions about Tests:
The tests were tricky. (考题都很难。)
I got an 80 something. (我考了80几分。)
The last question killed me. (我就败在最后一个问题上。)
Professor Burns will return the tests today. (彭斯教授今天将发回试卷。)
What’s going to be covered on the mid-term exam? (这次期中考试的范围是什么?)
(Mufasa, the lion king is telling Simba, his son, an important rule of life.)
Mufasa: Look, Simba, everything the light _______ is our kingdom.
Simba: Wow!
Mufasa: A king’s time as ______ rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king.
Simba: And this all be mine?
Mufasa: Everything!
Simba: Everything the light touches! What about that ________ place?
Mufasa: That’s _______ our _______, you must never go there, Simba.
Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa: Oh, there’s more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Simba: There’s more?
Mufasa: Simba, everything you see exists together in a _______ balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the ________ from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope(羚羊).
Simba: But dad, don't we eat the antelope?
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Mufasa: Yes, Simba. But let me explain. ____________________________________ and the antelopes eat the grass, and so ___
____________________________________. Simba, let me tell you