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[00:09.65]知行哈哈糖
[00:14.92]Only gravedigger in town 镇上唯一的掘墓人
[00:23.97]词汇扫描
[00:28.98]seminar ['seminɑ:] 讨论班
[00:33.42]make up 补偿
[00:37.00]insist [in'sist] 坚持
[00:40.68]postpone [pəust'pəun] 推迟
[00:44.52]英文原文
[00:46.68]One of my students could not take my college seminar final exam
[00:50.29]because of a funeral.
[00:51.86]No problem, I told him. Make it up the following week.
[00:55.17]That week came,
[00:56.45]and again he couldn't take the test due to another funeral.
[01:00.58]"You'll have to take the test early next week," I insisted.
[01:04.07]"I can't keep postponing it."
[01:05.99]"I'll take the test next week if no one dies," he told me.
[01:09.90]By now I was suspicious.
[01:12.44]"How can you have so many people
[01:13.74]you know pass away in three weeks?"
[01:16.14]"I don't know any of these people," he said.
[01:18.59]"I'm the only gravedigger in town."
[01:23.33]中文大意
[02:02.80]逐句对照
[02:06.90]One of my students could not take my college seminar final exam
[02:10.87]because of a funeral.
[02:17.05]No problem, I told him. Make it up the following week.
[02:23.32]That week came,
[02:24.36]and again he couldn't take the test due to another funeral.
[02:32.66]"You'll have to take the test early next week," I insisted.
[02:36.11]"I can't keep postponing it."
[02:42.83]"I'll take the test next week if no one dies," he told me.
[02:50.32]By now I was suspicious.
[02:52.19]"How can you have so many people
[02:54.00]you know pass away in three weeks?"
[03:02.90]"I don't know any of these people," he said.
[03:04.93]"I'm the only gravedigger in town."
[03:15.44]多学一点
[03:19.37]seminar 讨论班,研究班
[03:23.23]make up 弥补,补偿
[03:32.45]make up the price difference(补上差价)
[03:36.36]make up the lost goods(补偿丢失的货物)
[03:39.99]make up 编造,捏造
[03:42.16]make up an excuse(编造一个借口)
[03:45.68]make up 化妆
[03:48.20]She spent an hour to make up before the date.
[03:56.93]insist 坚持
[04:06.60]He insists on having another cup.
[04:11.63]强烈的、持续的主张
[04:14.45]We insist that you accept these gifts.
[04:21.39]postpone 推迟,延期
[04:24.79]The match is postponed to the next week.
[04:30.06]The meeting is postponed until Tom is back.
[04:38.46]pass away 去世,过世
[04:46.97]dead
[04:48.55]pass away
[04:50.46]pass on,pass over,be gone
[04:58.03]重新听一次故事原文
[05:00.56]One of my students could not take my college seminar final exam
[05:04.16]because of a funeral.
[05:05.75]No problem, I told him. Make it up the following week.
[05:09.00]That week came,
[05:10.34]and again he couldn't take the test due to another funeral.
[05:14.33]"You'll have to take the test early next week," I insisted.
[05:17.88]"I can't keep postponing it."
[05:19.73]"I'll take the test next week if no one dies," he told me.
[05:23.74]By now I was suspicious.
[05:25.70]"How can you have so many people
[05:27.71]you know pass away in three weeks?"
[05:29.95]"I don't know any of these people," he said.
[05:32.38]"I'm the only gravedigger in town."
vt. 延期,推迟