Jessica: 怡茹，why do you look so tired?
YR: 這幾天又複習又考試，累得我眼睛都快睜不開啦!昨天晚上，我複習了一個通宵啊!I drove a night car!
Jessica: You drove a night car?
YR: 對啊!我開了一宿夜車!難道不是這麼說的?
Jessica: 哈哈，you should use the phrase "pull an all-nighter." It means youspent the whole night studying or working to meet a deadline.
YR: 哦，整宿學習工作不睡覺，就是pull an all-nighter. 唉!都怪我平時沒好好複習，期末考試前只能臨時抱佛腳!
Jessica: You're not alone, Yiru! A lot of college students pullall-nighters for exams. You can also use the phrase "cram session." It means anintense period of study before a critical exam.
YR: C-r-a-m, cram, 是倉促備考的`意思，所以 a cram session 就是考前的突擊複習。正說呢，My study groupwill have a cram session this afternoon for tomorrow's exam. Hopefully we canget everything done before midnight so that I don't have to pull an all-nighteragain!
Jessica: Take it easy, Yiru. Isn't your exam tomorrow an open-booktest?
YR: Open-book test? 哦，你是說開卷?沒錯，這門是開卷，可老師對開卷考試的答案要求更高。我可不想考砸了!
Jessica: You won't bomb it. You're a smart girl!
YR: 你說“bomb"--那不是轟炸的意思麼?我猜這就是說沒考好，對麼?
Jessica: Exactly.
YR: 那要是不及格，掛科了，怎麼說呢?
Jessica: Then you can use the verb "flunk", f-l-u-n-k, flunk. It means youfail to pass an exam.
YR: I don't want to flunk my exam, so---I gotta go!
Jessica: Before you go, tell me what you've learned today!
YR: 第一，開夜車，通宵學習工作，叫 pull an all-nighter; 考試前的突擊複習叫 cram session;
第二，開卷考試是 open-book test;
第三，考試考砸了用動詞 bomb, 不及格則用 flunk!
