時差N小時:書呆子 Lazy boy in the class(2)

Feifei:It seems you were an awful student.

飛飛:看來你是個差生。

Diarmuid:Well, it's true I was never a swot.

戴拉蒙德:嗯,這是真的，我從來就不是swot。

Feifei:A what?

飛飛:一個什么?

Diarmuid:A swot. S.W.O.T. Swot.Can you guesswhat it means?

戴拉蒙德:一個swot。你能猜出它的意思嗎?

Feifei:Well, since you say you were not a swot andyou got very bad grades at school, I would say that aswot is a very good student.

飛飛:嗯,既然你說你不是一個swot,而你在學(xué)校的成績又非常糟糕,所以我猜swot代表的是非常好的學(xué)生。

Diarmuid:You're right.

戴拉蒙德:完全正確。

A swot is a student who spends all theirtime studying, or swotting.

Swot指的是一個把所有的時間用于學(xué)習(xí)學(xué)生。

Being a swot usually means that other students don't like you. Example

成為這樣的人通常意味著其他學(xué)生不會喜歡你。下面就是例子。

A:Look at this old photo of our class at school.

A:看這張?jiān)趯W(xué)校我們班級的老照片。

B:Oh yes, there's Simon Studious. He was such a swot. I wonder whatever happened to him.

B:哦,是的,這是好學(xué)生西蒙。他真是個學(xué)霸。我想知道他身上發(fā)生過什么。

A:I heard he started his own software company; he's a multi-millionaire now.

我聽說他開了自己的軟件公司,他現(xiàn)在可是個百萬富翁。

B:Oh. Wish I'd worked a bit harder then.

B:哦。真后悔當(dāng)初我沒好好用功。

Diarmuid:But you don't have to be a student to use this word.

戴拉蒙德:但你不必成為一個學(xué)生來使用這個詞。

We can use the verb form – to swot up – to mean learn more about anything.

我們可以使用其動詞形式—意思是刻苦攻讀,意味著學(xué)習(xí)更多關(guān)于任何東西。

Feifei:So I could say I'm going to swot up on laptops because I want to buy a new computer.

飛飛:所以我可以說我要研究筆記本電腦,因?yàn)槲蚁胭I一臺新電腦。

Diarmuid:You certainly could.

戴拉蒙德:你當(dāng)然可以。