每日一句初級口語第170期:劍橋大學年度美臀

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While their predecessors have amassed dozens of Nobel

prizes and other intellectual accolades, the current

crop of Cambridge undergraduates is focusing on a

rather less taxing competition – rear of the year.

當前輩校友們多次斬獲諾貝爾獎，取得令人刮目的學術成就時，

如今的劍橋大學學生卻 更熱衷於不太費力的競爭——評選“年

度美臀”。

1. predecessor:祖先,前任,原有事物

Example: Our new doctor is much younger than his predecessor.我們新來的醫生比他的前任年輕許多。

2. amass:收集，積累

Example: He is planed to amass a fortune for a rainy day.他正打算積蓄財富以備不時之需。

3. dozens of：幾十

Example: He's got dozens of suits but not one of them is presentable.他有幾十套衣服，卻沒有一套像樣的。

4. intellectual：憑理智做事者,知識分子

Example: He likes to set himself up as an intellectual.他喜歡自命爲知識分子。

5. accolade：表揚,嘉獎

Example: is new book received accolade from the papers.他的新書受到報紙的熱烈讚揚。

4. current：現在的,流通的

Example: How long will she keep her current job?她現在這份工作能維持多久?

5. crop：農作物,收成,莊稼,(一)批

Example: The programme brought quite a crop of complaints from viewers.該節目招致觀衆諸多不滿.

6. taxing:費力的,棘手的

Example: Raising a creative child can be taxing.培養一個有創造性的孩子可能會費心費力。

7. rear:後部,尾部,後方

Example: The rear of the bus is in smoke.公交汽車尾部在冒煙。