專題報導 2003-03-10

TAMKANG ENGLISH

Campus English

To help the Tamkang community(1) integrate(2) English into ev-eryday life, here we will offer some English that is useful specifically for(3) life on a university campus. In this issue(4) we use an imaginary(5) conversation between an American student named Jason and a Taiwanese student named Alex in one of Tamkang's school cafeterias(6). The American, Jason, is in Tamkang studying Mandarin Chinese(7) for one year. He and Alex are doing a language exchange, and we are listening in(8) on their first English conversation.

Jason:So(9) Alex, what's your major(10)?

Alex:I'm an Information and Library Science(11) major. How about you?

Jason:Back at my home university in the US, I'm an Asian Studies(12) major. By the way, what year are you(13)?

Alex:I'm sorry. I'm not sure what you mean.

Jason:There are four years for a university undergraduate student(14), right? If you are studying in your first year, you are a freshman. If it's your second year, you're called a sophomore. Third year students are juniors and the fourth and final year is called senior year. So, for example, I can say things like: "My junior year in university was the most enjoyable year for me."

Alex:Thanks. That's useful to know.

Jason:It is. Probably the two most frequent(15) questions that are asked when university students meet each other for the first time are: "What year are you?" And "What's your major?"

Alex:By the way, to answer your original question, I'm a sophomore. And what year are you?

Jason:I'm a junior. So, you could say I am here in Taiwan for a junior year abroad.

1. community:社區;社團;團體。Tamkang community: 淡江大學校園社區。

2. integrate:v. 整合;融入。(名詞為integration, 形容詞為integrative)。

3. useful specifically for…:對…特別有用。

4. issue:(雜誌、期刊的)一期(這個字另外常用的重要含義為:議題、問題)。

5. imaginary:adj. 想像的(動詞為imagine, 名詞為imagination)。

6. cafeteria:n.(機關團體或學校裡附設的)餐廳;自助餐廳(一般的餐廳叫restaurant)。

7. Mandarin Chinese:中文(指國語,常簡稱為Mandarin)。

8. listen in:偷聽。

9. so:conj. 那麼…

10. major:n. 主修(這個字也是動詞,後面跟著介詞in: I major in Information and Library Science 我主修資訊與圖書館);主修…的學生。

11. Information and Library Science: 資訊與圖書館(學)。

12. Asian Studies:亞洲研究。

13. What year are you? :你是幾年級?

14. undergraduate stu-dent:大學部學生(研究生叫 graduate student)。under-graduate這個字常當名詞使用,意思就是大學部學生(你可以說:I am an undergraduate. 我是大學部學生);這個字也可當形容詞,意思就是大學部的,如 undergraduate stu-dent 裡它就當形容詞用。undergraduate student這個詞跟註7的 Mandarin Chinese 的構詞是一樣的。

15. frequent:adj. 經常的(名詞叫frequency,經常;頻率)。

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