| 词汇 | school |
| 释义 | campi n. campuses. (The Latin plural of campus = field.)I'll see you about the campi. Ciao!When will you return to the campi after vacation? crack a book tr. to open a book to study. (Usually in the negative.)I never cracked a book and still passed the course.Sally didn't crack a book all semester. cram in. to study hard at the last minute for a test.She spent the night cramming for the test.If you would study all the time, you wouldn't need to cram. crib course n. an easy course in college.Tom signed up for three crib courses and gym. What a twit!Andy thought he was getting into a crib course, but it turned out to be really hard. cume and cum n. a cumulative average, such as a grade-point average. (Pronounced “KYUM.”)My cume is not high enough to get into law school.My cum is a straight A. frog slicing n. biology class; a biology course. (A dysphemism.)Mary found frog slicing to be interesting. She especially liked the study of conservation and ecology.Dave dreaded going to frog slicing. The smell got to him. geekdom n. the realm of the hardstudying students or geeks.This dorm is not exactly geekdom. Almost all the guys here are on academic probation.I spent all last semester in the hallowed halls of geekdom, studying my buns off. grade-grubbing mod. having to do with students who are only concerned with getting high grades.Grade-grubbing college kids are driving me crazy.Two grade-grubbing seniors came in and begged me to change their grades. gut n. an easy course in school.That course is a gut.If it's a gut, it's for me. hook 1. n. the grade of C. I didn't study at all and I still got a hook!I got three hooks and a D this semester. 2. tr. to earn or “pull” the grade of C on something in school. History? I hooked it without any trouble.If I can just hook algebra, I'll stay off probation. lit n. literature, as a school subject.I'm flunking English lit again.I hate lit. Give me numbers any day. nuts and bolts n. the subject of psychology in college.I took a class in nuts and bolts and didn't learn anything at all about what makes me tick.Tom is flunking nuts and bolts because he won't participate in the required “experiments.” pipe n. an easy course in school.Take this course. It's a pipe.I don't want a full load of pipes. I want to learn something. prelims n. preliminary examinations. (Collegiate.)I hope I pass my prelims.What do you have to do to get the degree after you pass your prelims? sheepskin n. a high school or college diploma.When you get that sheepskin on the wall, you'll feel like it was all worth something.Where is your sheepskin from? skull-buster and skull-popper n. a difficult course in school or college.The course was a skull-buster, and I had to drop it.All the courses in that department are skull-poppers. underwater basket weaving n. an imaginary, very easy high school or college course.If I can just find a course in underwater basket weaving, I'll have an easy semester.Mary majored in underwater basket weaving. school noun 1 in poker, a group of players who customarily play together UK, 1967. 2 a group of people engaged in a gambling game, especially two-up AUSTRALIA, 1812 be schooled in be schooled in sth old-fashioned if you are schooled in a way of thinking or a way of doing something, you have been taught it: Victor Amadeus had been carefully schooled in the duties of a Catholic prince.
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