茶話會第1期:心不在焉的教授
Absent-minded professor:心不在焉的教授
A notoriously absent-minded professor was one day observed walking along the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.
A student meeting him said:
"Good evening, professor. What's the matter?"
"Well," answered the professor, "I thought I was all right when I left home, but now I don't know what's the matter with me. I've been limping for the last half-hour."
notoriously:聲名狼藉地;臭名昭著地
Mountain weather is notoriously difficult to predict. 山地氣候難以預料是人所共知的.
absent-minded:tending to forget things, perhaps because you are not thinking about what is around you, but about something else 健忘的;心不在焉的
Grandpa's becoming quite absent-minded. 爺爺愈來愈丟三落四了.
limp:to walk slowly or with difficulty because one leg is injured 瘸着走;跛行;蹣跚
Matt limped painfully off the field. 馬特忍着痛歪歪斜斜地走出了運動場.
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adv. 臭名昭著地，衆所周知地
gutter['gʌtə]想一想再看
n. 排水溝，槽，貧民區
聯想記憶X單詞gutter聯想記憶：gut（n 腸子：引申爲溝），ter－街溝；檐槽 predict[pri'dikt]
想一想再看
v. 預知，預言，預報，預測
聯想記憶X單詞predict聯想記憶：pre預先+dict說話，斷言→預言；預告 limp[limp]
想一想再看
n. 跛行
adj. 柔軟的，無力的，軟弱的<
