生活英語情景口語:Headache Exams 令人頭疼的考試

Brooke: how was school today, Dominic?
Dominic: I hate school!
B: why? What happened?
D: I messed up my mid-term exam so badly today!
B: it's just one exam. Can you re-take the exam?
D: yes, but it's so humiliating! I don't want my friends to know I failed!
B: why didn't you do a good job?
D: I don't know. I sat down in my seat, looked at my paper, and then my mind just went totally blank.
B: do you think you studied enough for the exam?
D: no...
B: what did you do last night?
D: I watched TV.
B: did you study at all last night for your exam?
D: no, not really.
B: I am sure if you had studied, you would have done well. When can you re-take your exam?
D: tomorrow.
B: alright. Get out your books and I'll help you prepare.



多米尼克,今天上學怎麼樣?
我討厭上學.
爲什麼?出什麼事了?
今天我期中考試考砸了!
那不過是一次考試.你能補考嗎?
可以,可是實在是太丟臉了!我不想讓我的同學們知道我考試不及格.
你爲什麼沒考好?
我不清楚.我坐在座位上,盯着卷子看,大腦一片空白.
你覺得你考試準備得充分嗎?
不怎麼好…
你昨晚幹什麼了?
我看電視來着.
那你爲了複習功課熬通宵了嗎?
沒有,沒怎麼熬.
我敢肯定你學習了,你本來會考得很好的.什麼時候補考.
明天.
好的,拿出你的書,我幫你複習.


Mess up: to spoil sth or do it badly 把…弄糟；胡亂地做
I've really messed up this time.
這次我真的把事情給弄糟了。
If you cancel now you'll mess up all my arrangements.
如果你現在取消，就會破壞我所有的安排。

Humiliating:恥辱的
a humiliating defeat
恥辱的失敗
It was the most humiliating night of his life.
那是他一生中最感羞辱的一夜。

Blank: showing no feeling, understanding or interest 沒表情的；不理解的；不感興趣的
She stared at me with a blank expression on her face.
她木然地盯着我。
Steve looked blank and said he had no idea what I was talking about.
史蒂夫顯得很迷惑，說他不知道我在說什麼。
Suddenly my mind went blank (= I could not remember anything).
我腦子裏突然一片空白。