【英语时差8,16】书呆子-下

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Feifei:It seems you were an awful student. Diarmuid: Well, it’s true I was never a swot. Feifei: A what? Diarmuid: A swot. S.W.O.T. Swot.Can you guess what it means¹? Feifei: Well, since you say you were not a swot and you got very bad grades at school, I would say that a swot is a very good student. Diarmuid: You’re right. A swot is a student who spends all their time studying, or swotting. Being² a swot usually means that other students don’t like you. Example A: Look at this old photo of our class at school. B: Oh yes, there’s Simon Studious. He was such a swot. I wonder whatever happened to him. A: I heard he started his own software³ company; he’s a multi-millionaire now. B: Oh. Wish I’d worked a bit harder then. Diarmuid: But you don’t have to be a student to use this word. We can use the verb⁴ form – to swot up – to mean learn more about anything. Feifei: So I could say I’m going to swot up on laptops⁵ because I want to buy a new computer. Diarmuid: You certainly could.