Shrink in Proportion按比例縮小

A teacher asked students to rewrite a 1500-word article to 500 words. Later, when the teacher read Scott’s article, he asked, “Why did you change a 45-meter-high building into 15 meters, 6 cars into 2 cars, and 3 people into 1 person?”Scott said, “I shrank them based on strict proportions.”

老師要求同學(xué)們把一篇1500字的文章縮寫成500字。老師看了斯科特的作文以后問：你怎么把45米高的建筑物寫成了15米，6輛汽車寫成了2輛，3個(gè)人寫成了1個(gè)人？

斯科特答：我是嚴(yán)格按比例縮小的。

Be Prepared準(zhǔn) 備

Scott failed his exams. Knowing that his dad will be very upset. He sent his elder brother an e-mail, hoping his brother can prepare their dad to accept the bad news.The next day, he received the reply from his brother, “Our father is prepared, but you’d better also be prepared!”

斯科特的期末考試不及格，他知道爸爸一定會(huì)非常不滿，就給哥哥發(fā)了一封郵件，請(qǐng)哥哥轉(zhuǎn)告爸爸，準(zhǔn)備接受壞消息。第二天，他收到了哥哥的回復(fù)：爸爸已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好了，你自己最好也準(zhǔn)備準(zhǔn)備！

Which Tire Was Flat哪個(gè)輪胎破了

A final exam was in session at a university. Toward the end of the exam three students rushed to the classroom. They explained to the professor that the reason why they were late was that the car they shared got a flat tire. The professor agreed to let them take a make-up examination. But, there was only one question on the exam paper, “Which tire was flat on the car you shared?” In the end, the three students all had different answers from each other...

某大學(xué)正在舉行期末考試，快結(jié)束的時(shí)候，有3個(gè)學(xué)生匆匆忙忙地跑進(jìn)教室。他們3人向教授解釋，因?yàn)樗麄兒献钠囈粋€(gè)輪胎破了，所以才會(huì)遲到。教授答應(yīng)讓他們補(bǔ)考，可是試卷上只有一道題目：你們坐的那輛汽車，哪個(gè)輪胎破了？結(jié)果，3個(gè)學(xué)生的答案互不相同

Key points

flat 扁的

proportion 比例

professor 教授

rewrite 改寫；重寫

shrank收縮（shrink的過去式）；縮小

session 學(xué)期

tire 輪胎

upset 心煩的