Engineering classes at the university are tough,and struggling students sometimes go to extremes in order to pass. Grading exams one semester,I got to this question:"What is the relationship between kinetic and potential energy" One student,obviously stumped,decided to get clever and wrote,"As far as I know,they're just friends,but there could be something else going on there."
大学的工程课程难度很大,成绩差的学生为了要得个合格有时要走极端。有一个学期我在批考卷的时候,批到一道"动能和势能之间有什么关系?"的题目,一个显然发懵的学生自作聪明地答道:"就我所知,它们只是朋友,不过或许它们之间还有点什么事儿。"
extreme n. 极端,极度,极限 semester n. 学期
kinetic a. 动力( 学) 的,活动的 stump v. 把……难住,难倒