Engineering classes at the university are tough,and struggling students sometimes go to extremes in order to pass. Grading exams one semester,I got to this question:"What is the relationship between kinetic and potential energy" One student,obviously stumped,decided to get clever and wrote,"As far as I know,they're just friends,but there could be something else going on there."
大學(xué)的工程課程難度很大,成績差的學(xué)生為了要得個合格有時要走極端。有一個學(xué)期我在批考卷的時候,批到一道"動能和勢能之間有什么關(guān)系?"的題目,一個顯然發(fā)懵的學(xué)生自作聰明地答道:"就我所知,它們只是朋友,不過或許它們之間還有點什么事兒。"
extreme n. 極端,極度,極限 semester n. 學(xué)期
kinetic a. 動力( 學(xué)) 的,活動的 stump v. 把……難住,難倒