时差N小时 书呆子（2）

Feifei:It seems you were an awful student.

飞飞:看来你是个差生。

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

戴拉蒙德:嗯,这是真的，我从来就不是swot。

Feifei:A what?

飞飞:一个什么?

Diarmuid:A swot. S.W.O.T. Swot.Can you guess what it means¹?

戴拉蒙德:一个swot。你能猜出它的意思吗?

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

飞飞:嗯,既然你说你不是一个swot,而你在学校的成绩又非常糟糕,所以我猜swot代表的是非常好的学生。

Diarmuid:You're right.

戴拉蒙德:完全正确。

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

Swot指的是一个把所有的时间用于学习学生。

Being² a swot usually means that other students don't like you. Example

成为这样的人通常意味着其他学生不会喜欢你。下面就是例子。

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

A:看这张在学校我们班级的老照片。

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

B:哦,是的,这是好学生西蒙。他真是个学霸。我想知道他身上发生过什么。

A:I heard he started his own software³ company; he's a multi-millionaire now.

我听说他开了自己的软件公司,他现在可是个百万富翁。

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

B:哦。真后悔当初我没好好用功。

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

戴拉蒙德:但你不必成为一个学生来使用这个词。

We can use the verb⁴ form – to swot up – to mean learn more about anything.

我们可以使用其动词形式—意思是刻苦攻读,意味着学习更多关于任何东西。

Feifei:So I could say I'm going to swot up on laptops⁵ because I want to buy a new computer.

飞飞:所以我可以说我要研究笔记本电脑,因为我想买一台新电脑。

Diarmuid:You certainly could.

戴拉蒙德:你当然可以。

1 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

2 being   

n.存在；生存；生命存在，生命，人， 本质；art.在，有，是

参考例句：

• Can you explain to me the purpose of being?你能对我解释一下存在的目的吗？
• What is the purpose of our being?我们生存的目的是什么？

3 software   

n.软件，程序设计

参考例句：

• He bought a new software package.他买了一个新的软件包。
• I wish I knew how the software is installed.我真希望我知道这个软件是如何安装的。

4 verb   

n.[语]动词

参考例句：

• The sentence is formed from a verb and two nouns.这句子由一个动词和两个名词构成。
• These are the finite forms of a verb.这些是一个动词的限定形式。

5 laptops   

便携式电脑( laptop的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Thousands of children worldwide are already playing and learning with XO laptops. 世界各地上千学童已经透过XO手提电脑嬉戏[和]学习了。
• The recall of the latest laptops costs Dell several million dollars. 由于召回其最新的笔记本电脑产品，戴尔公司损失了好几百万美元。