Intermediate Listening Lesson 07

课业成绩低怎么办，懊恼

A: "Did you get your grades yet?"

B: "Yeah. My whole GPA is screwed up now."

A: "Why? What happened?"

B: "Well, I bombed my econ final and ended up with a 1.7."

A: "Ouch. You must be very disappointed."

B: "Well, it's my fault because I didn't study as much as I should have."

A: "Why don't you re-take the class next year?"

B: "That's what I plan on doing unless I keep screwing up. How did you do this semester?"

A: "I didn't do that well either. I ended up with a 3.2 this semester. That drops my total GPA to 3.45."

B: "My GPA is pretty similar to yours. I have a 3.1 now because of the stupid econ class."

A: "What was your GPA before this semester?"

B: "I was sitting happy with a 3.4."

A: "Why did it go down so much?"

B: "Let's just say I screwed up more than my econ class."

A: "What happened to you?"

B: "I started playing StarCraft and ended up wasting a lot of time."

A: "You better stop slacking¹ off."

B: "You're right. I'm not going to play games during school anymore."

1 slacking   

偷懒( slack的现在分词 )； 减速； 放松

参考例句：

• The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
• He had never let a foreman see him slacking. 他从未在哪个工头面前表现出丝毫懈怠。