第一,迷你对话
A: Billy received an award in the math contest.
比利在数学竞赛中得了奖。
B: I know. He deserves it.
我知道了,这是他应得的。
A: Yes. Often he works hard to feel about for the answers to difficult math problems and never gives up.
是的。他总是非常努力地探求数学难题的答案,从不轻言放弃。
B: He's really something.
他真有志气。
第二,词海拾贝
feel about
exp. To grope. (探索,摸索)
e.g. He learned technical skills by feeling about.
他通过不断摸索掌握技能。
e.g. We're feeling about to improve our work.
我们正在摸索改进工作的方法。
e.g. He was feeling about for the way toward negotiation in the dark.
他在黑暗中摸索着通向谈判的路。
第三,语汇积累
1.receive an award:获奖
e.g. Last week he was in New York to receive an award for Roshan's corporate philanthropy.
上周他在纽约因罗山的企业慈善事业接受颁奖。
2. answers to:......的答案
e.g. I wrote down in full in English his answers to my questions.
我把他对我所提出的问题的回答用英文全部记下来。
e.g. A teacher should be armed with answers to questions that his pupils are likely to ask.
一个教师应该为他的学生们可能提问的问题准备好答案。
3. give up:放弃
e.g. At no time should you give up studying.
在任何时候你都不应放弃读书。
e.g. It is likely that he will give up in despair.
在绝望中,他很有可能会放弃.