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A question for you: Letter from Home ——戴露瑶、汪星萃 季卫倩、胡英哲 How do you deal with your failure? plunge plunge sb./sth. into sth 使经历，使陷入 e.g The news plunged them into deep depression. 这条消息立即使他们深感沮丧 T: take the plunge 果断行事，作出决定 postpone postponement noun. e.g Riots led to the postponement of locial elections. T: 骚乱致使地方选举延迟。 savor savor of sth. 意味着 e.g His recent comments savor of hypocrisy 他近来说的话有点虚伪。 T: poke poke fun at sb. 奚落，嘲弄 e.g Her novels poke fun at the upper class. T: 她的小说嘲弄上流社会. poke at sh. 捅，扎 ，戳 e.g He poked at the spaghetti with a fork. T: 他用叉子拨弄面条. stumble stumble across 意外发现，偶然遇见 e.g Police have stumbled with a huge drugs ring. T: 警方无意中发现一个庞大的贩毒集团。 stumle into sth. 无意间涉足某事 e.g I stumbled into acting when I left college. T: 我从大学出来后无意间进入了演艺界 Reading the passage 1. Not all of them, of course, will take the icy plunge 当然，并非他们所有人都将 投入到这个冰冷的社会 2.Some are doing it to acquire still another degree to impress a society in which they think a cre- -dentials are the only currency. 而有些人这样做只是为了再获得一个学位，好让这个他们认为只认证书的社会刮目相看。 3.At Yale, they play in fewer days and musical groups, join fewer campus organizations, take part in fewer sports, carve out fewer moments just to linger and talk and put a margin arund their lives. 在耶鲁，他们排演话剧和音乐节目的时间少了，参加校园团体和体育活动的机会少了，连抽点时间散散步，聊聊天也很难得，几乎无法给自己的生活留点空隙 4.It is not that I wont wish them fame and fortune,especially the seniors as they lurch toward graduation,more stuffed with learning and short of money than they probably ever will be again 并不是我不希望他们名利双收，尤其对正迈着蹒跚步子走向毕业的四年级学生，我更同情他们满腹经纶却囊中羞涩，而以后他们再也不会像现在这样了 5.America has always been nourished by men and women who are not afraid to go against the grain. 美国的繁荣始终得益于不怕离经叛道的男女志士 * *