第四十一讲
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Para. 6 In high school, I found, you gain a little bit of knowledge and suddenly you think your parents don’t know a thing. One day, for example, my father told me something he had noticed as a boy. “I was watching wasps,” he said, “and they had tiny parasites that looked like lobsters on them.”
Translation
Para. 6 我发现,在中学里,当你有了一点点知识时,你会突然觉得父母亲一无所知。比如,有一天,父亲告诉我他小时候的一个发现,他说,“我在观察黄蜂的时候,看到它们身上有像龙虾一样的小寄生虫。”
wasp
n. 黄蜂
e.g.
a. There's a wasps' nest in that old tree.
那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。
b. Wasp's sting is serious, as I know to my cost.
让黄蜂蜇了可不好受,我吃过这苦头。
parasite
n. 寄生虫;食客
e.g.
a. I don't want to be a parasite. I must earn my own way in life.
我不想做寄生虫, 我要自己养活自己。
b. The doctor examine the entrails of the patient for parasite.
医生检查病人的内脏看是否有寄生虫。