Jessica: 怡茹，why do you look so tired?

YR: 這幾天又復習又考試，累得我眼睛都快睜不開啦!昨天晚上，我復習了一個通宵啊!I drove a night car!

Jessica: You drove a night car?

YR: 對啊!我開了一宿夜車!難道不是這么說的?

Jessica: 哈哈，you should use the phrase "pull an all-nighter." It means you spent 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!都怪我平時沒好好復習，期末考試前只能臨時抱佛腳!

Jessica: You’re not alone, Yiru! A lot of college students pull all-nighters for exams. You can also use the phrase "cram session." It means an intense 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 就是考前的突擊復習。正說呢，My study group will have a cram session this afternoon for tomorrow’s exam. Hopefully we can get everything done before midnight so that I don’t have to pull an all-nighter again!

Jessica: Take it easy, Yiru. Isn’t your exam tomorrow an open-book test?

YR: Open-book test? 哦，你是說開卷考試吧?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"--那不是轟炸的意思么?我猜這就是說沒考好，對么?

Jessica: Exactly.

YR: 那要是不及格，掛科了，怎么說呢?

Jessica: Then you can use the verb "flunk", f-l-u-n-k, flunk. It means you fail 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; 考試前的突擊復習叫 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!