飛飛:看來(lái)你是個(gè)差生。
Diarmuid:Well, it's true I was never a swot.
戴拉蒙德:嗯,這是真的,我從來(lái)就不是swot。
Feifei:A what?
飛飛:一個(gè)什么?
Diarmuid:A swot. S.W.O.T. Swot.Can you guesswhat it means?
戴拉蒙德:一個(gè)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(shuō)你不是一個(gè)swot,而你在學(xué)校的成績(jī)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(gè)把所有的時(shí)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(huì)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(jí)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(gè)學(xué)霸。我想知道他身上發(fā)生過(guò)什么。
A:I heard he started his own software company; he's a multi-millionaire now.
我聽(tīng)說(shuō)他開了自己的軟件公司,他現(xiàn)在可是個(gè)百萬(wàn)富翁。
B:Oh. Wish I'd worked a bit harder then.
B:哦。真后悔當(dāng)初我沒(méi)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(gè)學(xué)生來(lái)使用這個(gè)詞。
We can use the verb form – to swot up – to mean learn more about anything.
我們可以使用其動(dòng)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(shuō)我要研究筆記本電腦,因?yàn)槲蚁胭I一臺(tái)新電腦。
Diarmuid:You certainly could.
戴拉蒙德:你當(dāng)然可以。