幽默学习第十三期

（单词翻译:单击）

　　During summer sessions at our small Southern university, we who teach 8 a.m. classes face two major obstacles. First, attendance at these early classes is always quite low because of late-sleeping students. Second, the students who do show up find it difficult to hear us above the roar of the lawn mowers outside our windows. During this year's faculty¹ conference, one professor laughingly proposed a creative solution to the problem. "Why don't we have the grounds crew start mowing² outside the student dorms at 7 a.m.?"