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TPO 6Conversation1：Universitys Career Services Office 大学就业/职业服务办公室 career fair招聘会flyer宣传单 poster海报 make a note of that 把它记下来 recruit招聘look for employment 找工作get my resume together with me 带上简历 thats a given.那是肯定的。along the lines of 从。方向考虑；按照；the flyers and posters list all the businesses that are sending representatives to the career fair. 宣传单和海报上列出了所有会派代表来招聘会的公司。declare a major 申请专业 accounting会计学a zillion other employees 很多其他的员工 opportunities for advancement 提升机会 tailor调整 if you plan on attending future career fairs, I recommend you sign up for one of our interview workshops. 如果你计划参加将来的招聘会，我推荐你报名参加我们一期面试案例分析会。interview case workshop案例分析会Job interview workshop 求职面试技巧工作坊Lecture1：Economics经济学boom and bust 繁荣与萧条 （大繁荣后紧接着发生严重的不景气）dot-com网络公司 crash 破产，坠毁the dot-com crash of the 90s 90年代末的互联网泡沫危机（指自1995年至2001年间的投机泡沫。）spring up(过去式sprang up）涌现，出现 VERB If something springs up, it suddenly appears or begins to exist. 冒出; 涌出例：New theatres and arts centres sprang up all over the country.新的剧院和艺术中心在全国雨后春笋般涌现出来。get carried away 得意忘形；失去理智tulip郁金香Netherlands荷兰hail from来自，（人）出生于celestial 天的Celestial is used to describe things relating to heaven or to the sky. 天上的; 天堂的例：.the clusters of celestial bodies in the ever-expanding universe.不断扩展的宇宙中的这些天体群。Celestial Mountains天山 remote偏僻的 mountainous 山地的，多山的Turkish nomads 土耳其游牧人（ nomadic游牧的）Europeans were travelling to Istanbul and Turkey as merchants and diplomats. 欧洲人前往伊斯坦布尔和土耳其经商或从事政治外交活动。Turk土耳其人 tulip bulbs 郁金香球茎unheard of 闻所未闻的 a great novelty 新奇的事物roast烤 enormous amounts of money huge amounts of money 大笔的钱streak条纹 petal花瓣prized ；valuable珍贵的，值钱的，价高的，昂贵的craze狂热 specialized专门化的 tulip mania 郁金香狂热；郁金香热潮prospering繁荣的 disposable income可支配收入 luxuries 奢侈品【be experienced at 对。有经验then along comes a thrilling new commodity（第二个条件）出现一种新奇刺激的商品 unregulated 无监管的 not regulated; uncontrolled 无管理的no government constraints 没有政府的限制和约束 explode暴涨，激增 no government constraints ，where prices could explode. 没有政府监管，价格得以自由攀升。In other words, tulips were literally worth their weight in gold. 换句话说，郁金香已如黄金般珍贵。promissory notes 本票，期票 As demand grew, people began to sell promissory notes guaranteeing the future delivery of prized tulip bulbs. 随着市场需求的不断增长，人们开始出售本票来确保未来高价郁金香球茎的交付/供给。at marked up 以标高的价格 but it was all pure speculation但这完全是投机行为 at a profit 获利；获得利润mortgage 房屋抵押贷款ingredient要素，原料 conditions 条件 bidder出价人，投标人discovered that there were no bidders.没人愿意出价购买郁金香了。Lecture 2Biology生物学a plant species 植物物种remain hidden 隐藏range in the north part of New South Wales新南威尔士北部山脉its relic from earlier times 历经亿年风雨存活至今的遗迹its probably a kind of tree from which other trees that grow in Australia today evolved. 当今澳洲生长的很多树种都是由夜冠橡树进化而来的。reproduce繁殖seed dispersal种子散播if the seeds cannot really disperse in the wild area, the tree may not colonize new areas. it cant spread from the area where its growing.如果夜冠橡树的种子无法再广阔区域内散播，生长，那么树种就无法拓展新领域，因此其繁殖也就无法突破原生地的地理范围。its very specialized in terms of the habitat.对生长环境要求很特别。the actual rainforest is much larger than the few hectares where the.grows. hectare 公顷 acre英亩it appears that the shell has to crack open or break down somewhat to allow the seed to soak up water. 只有在外壳被击破或打碎的情况下，种子才能吸收到水分。、germinate 发芽they dont retain the power to germinate for very long. retain something means to continue to have that thing. 保留germination ability expires. persist as a population indication迹象，显示its not a remnant of some huge population that is dwindled in the last few hundred years for some reason. dwindle缩小，减少 例：The factorys workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.该厂的工人总数已从4000多减少到了几百人。its not necessarily a species in retreat. 它也并处于物种衰退期。the next thing we might want to ask about a plant like that is what chances does it have to survive into the future. lets look at that. 那么接下来我们将要讨论，夜冠橡树一类的植物种群在未来得以存活的几率有多大，让我们继续分析。Conversation 2Term paper 学期论文 A term paper is an important essay or report which a student writes on a subject that he or she has studied during a term at a school, college, or university. 学期论文come up with想出，提出linguistics语言学 look over 察看 jump out at me 突然出现；一下子吸引住我 dialect方言intrigue激起。的兴趣 If something, especially something strange, intrigues you, it interests you and you want to know more about it. 激起的好奇心例：The novelty of the situation intrigued him.那种新奇的情景激起了他的好奇心。scope范围but then I was noticing, like, we dont really get into this till the end of the semester. 然后我注意到，我们要到学期末才能学到这里。you want some pointers where to go for imformation on the subject?所以，你需要一些提示到哪里去找到关于这个主题的信息？socialinguistics社会语言学 the study of language in relation to its social context 社会语言学that will give you a basic understanding of the key issues involved here. 那样你就能对有关的重点问题有一个基本的了解。dialect accommodation方言顺应（调节，适应） adapt调节使适应于 adapt their speaking to make it closer to the speech of whomever theyre talking to. dialect accommodation is a more manageable sort of topic. 方言适应是一个更容易控制（驾驭）的话题。 Something that is manageable is of a size, quantity, or level of difficulty that people are able to deal with. 能应付的例：He will now try to cut down the task to a manageable size.他现在将尽力把任务缩减到能应对的程度。to some degree 在某种程度上project（学生研究的）课题do you think itd be OK if I did a project like that for my term paper.find students from different parts of the country, record them talking to each other in different combinations, report on how they accommodate their speech or not. 记录他们跟不同的人的交谈，写一个关于他们如何根据不同的说话对象而调节自己的口音的报告。write up(根据笔记）整理成文 If you write up something that has been done or said, you record it on paper in a neat and complete form, usually using notes that you have made. (根据笔记) 整理成文例：He wrote up his visit in a report of over 600 pages.他把他的访问整理成了六百多页的一份报告。write me up a short proposal for this project, how youre going to carry out the experiment and everything, a design plan. 你写一个关于这个课题的简短方案给我。你打算怎样实施这个实验等等，我要一个设计方案。Lecture 3creative writing class创作性写作课/创意写作课 one way of doing that is to come up with whats called a character sketch 其中一种方法就是想出一个“人物草图”a sketch is a way of getting started on defining your characters personalities. 一个草图，就是一开始给你的人物性格下定义的一种方法。get started on 开始做，从。开始fictional小说的，虚构的blend混合we blend several peoples traits, their attributes into one character.融合好几个人的特点，特性集中到一个角色上。that guy who is always sitting in the corner at the coffee house. 那个经常坐在咖啡馆角落里的人。we are pulling from reality, gathering bits and pieces of real people. 我们从现实中采集素材，从真实的人物身上一点一滴的采集。you use these people, and the bits of behavior and characteristics as a starting point as you begin to sketch out your characters. 你利用这些人，利用他们行为特征的点滴作为你构思你人物草图的起始点。sketch out 草拟；概略地叙述formulate：构想出 If you formulate something such as a plan or proposal, you invent it, thinking about the details carefully. 构想出 (计划或提案)例：Little by little, he formulated his plan for escape.他一点一点地构想出了他的逃跑计划。when you begin to formulate a story, make a list of interesting people you know or have observed. make notes about their unusual or dominant attributes. 记下他们不寻常的或者显著的特征。keeping this kind of character sketch can help you solidify your characters personality, so that it remains consistent throughout your story. 用这种人物草图的方法能帮助你确定/固化你的人物性格。这样，贯穿你的故事始终，你的人物的性格都是一致的。their car runs out of gas on the highway. 他们的车在高速公路上没有汽油了。Teresa takes charge of handling the situation. Teresa 站出来主动处理这个情况。both John and Mary defer to her leadership. John and Mary 都听从她的领导。then he tells you how Teresa took charge, calmed him down, assigned tasks for each person and got them on their way. 然后他告诉你Teresa 是如何独当一面的，让他平静下来，给每个人分配任务。最后他们又重新上路了。so if your characters personalities are well defined, it will be easy for you as the writer to portray them realistically, believably, in any given situation. 如果你的人物性格已经确定好了，你作为作者就会很容易在任何情景下将他们描述的逼真可信。their reactions to success or defeat他们对成功或失败的反应But here I need to warn you about a possible pitfall. pitfall易犯的错误dont make your character into a stereotype. 不要让你的角色变得老套。fall in the same category属于同一类ragged衣衫褴褛的ragged mountain dweller衣衫褴褛的山居者Ill throw out a little terminology. 我来讲点术语吧。major character-round character圓形人物；圆整人物minor character-flat character扁平人物The flat character tends to serve mainly as a motivating factor. 扁平人物大多作为刺激因素而存在。The flat character is introduced solely for the purpose of allowing the round character to show off. 引入这个扁平人物的主要作用就是为了让圆形人物吹虚炫耀。Lecture 4Earth Science 地球科学drastic 急剧的；剧烈的drastic climate change 急剧/极端的 的气候变化we can see past occurrences of climate change that took place over just a few hundred years. 我们可以看到几百年前的气候变化事件。tropical paradise热带天堂greenery 绿色植物 what really indicates how undesert-like the Sahara was thousands of years ago, was something painted on the rock, pre-historic art, hippopotamuses, as you know hippos need a lot of water and hence what? 撒哈拉沙漠在几千年前是多么的不像沙漠hippopotamus河马 hippo 河马 hence 因此，所以 they need to live near a large source of water year around. 他们需要终年生活在一个巨大的水源附近。the people who painted those hippos, couldt they have seen them on their travels?那些画河马的人，难道就不可能是他们在旅途中见到的吗？in principle they could. 在原则上/理论上，是可以的。Beneath the Sahara are huge acquifers, basically a sea of fresh water, thats perhaps a million years old filtered through rock layers. 在撒哈拉下面有大大的蓄水层，一片淡水的海洋。那可能是经过岩石层过滤的，有一百万年的历史了。filter vi 滤过 vt过滤 fossilized pollen 花粉化石（石化的花粉） Pollen is a fine powder produced by flowers. It fertilizes other flowers of the same species so that they produce seeds. 花粉in more vegetated areas 在植被更茂盛的地方giraffe长颈鹿but that takes the focus away from the natural variations in the earth climate, like the Ice Age, right? 那就将注意力从自然变化对地球环境的影响上转移了。-那就没有考虑自然变化对地球环境的影响了。像冰河世纪，对吗？the planet was practically covered in ice just a few thousand years ago. 在几千年前，这个星球几乎都被冰雪所覆盖。Now as far as the Sahara goes, there is some recent literature that points to the migration of the monsoon in that area. 现在就撒哈拉沙漠而言，近期有些文学作品指向那个地区的季风迁移。monsoon is a seasonal wind that can bring in a large amount of rainfall. 季风是指能带来大量降雨的季候性的风。what caused the monsoon to migrate? the dynamics of earths motions, the same thing that caused the Ice Age by the way.地球运动的动力学 the earths not always the same distance from the sun, and its not always tilting toward the sun at the same angle. 地球离太阳的距离不总是一样远的。它也不总是