Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Good morning, Mr. chips(早起，精讀）

DAY1.

第一章：

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.? ?

1.get on in years 變老，2.like lazy cattle moving across a landscape,形容老人時間過的很慢，寫的很好

sprightliness同意詞exuberance

Rarely did he read more than a page of it ……

But Brookfield he had liked.

倒裝句，英文中很常見（Rarely would we say like this.)

wind up過去時wound up 給鬧鐘上發(fā)條

who're going to die a really natural death. That is, of course, if you die at all.

1.die a… death/ die a hero/ die young? 2.if you die at all?口語中很常見

put in for 申請?

gather:? suppose /think?

strong pint: strong suit, forte

queer 奇怪的 courteous 有禮貌的? recollection ? ? 注意讀音

Take up a firm attitude from the beginning.很實(shí)用的話例如： take up a chanllenge

Decent little beggars individually, but, as a mob, just pitiless and implacable.

implacable：relentless, implacable badgering(出自生活大爆炸）