Monday is a little disjointed
周一总是有点跟不上节奏
I think the first day of class is always a little disjointed
第一天的课程总是有那么一点杂乱
because we come in kind of, more professors come in maybe not students
因为新学期第一天我们走进教室通常教授会更兴奋而不是学生
Professors come in all excited about what they are gonna teach
当教授们踏进课堂,教学内容总是使他们激动
and so you want to tell everything about the whole course the first day
如果你是教授,你也会想把课程介绍一下,毕竟是第一天嘛
So you start going through your syllabus
然后当教授们开始介绍课程大纲的时候
so you jump over here and you jump over there
他们就会跳跃着讲很多东西,于是显得很凌乱
And I'll try to be a little more organized today
今天我就会尽量讲得有序一些
As we talk a little bit about history this period,
这一阶段我们将要学习一些历史
I'm obviously not a history professor
我本人并不是历史系教授
however as an undergraduate student ideal
但是毕竟我曾是一名全面发展的本科生
so I had one of my major was in European history and I'm medievalist and so I know something about this period
所以我曾经修过欧洲史的专业,并且我是一名中世纪研究学者,我对这个时期的历史有一定了解
but we're not gonna go in great depths
但是我们并不会学得很深
Just to review a few things,
只是回顾很少的一些内容
I forgot my little kind of pile of call cards
我忘了带我那小山一样的一堆卡片
That I want to ask you a few questions on Monday
是为向你们提问准备的,不过没关系我们开始
We talked about what chivalry meant that
我们讨论过骑士精神的含义
Chivalry the number one meaning in Webster amounted men at arms
他在韦伯斯特词典上的第一个意思是穿盔甲的男人
This is the heavy cavalry of medieval times
指的就是中世纪那些穿着厚重铠甲的骑兵
And if you went through the definition in Webster,
但是如果你接着看韦伯斯特上这个词的释义
while most of us think of as a definition of Chivalry,
你会发现通常意义下认同的骑士精神的含义
here is the definition of Chivalry
当我们找到这个定义时
but it doesn't come up until like the fourth or fifth definition
它大概在第四或者第五个条目
For example, four the dignity and system of knighthood, five the qualifications and characters of the ideal
举个例子,第四条,骑士的尊严和骑士的系,统第五条,成为骑士的资格和骑士的特点
It's like a lot of vocabulary,
单凭想象这就像是一堆单词
we really don't know particularly what words mean
我们很难理解这些话的真正含义
we know how we use them
但是我们知道怎么用
One of my little kind of pet peeves in life is
生活中让我很困扰的事之一就是
Does Miss have a period or not? Yeah
女士有没有生理期?当然有
Does Miss have a period or not after it?
我的困扰是我们用的称呼Miss后面有没有点
It does?
通常认为是有的
Should it?
但是它应该有吗
Did it always?
它一直以来都有吗,加点的Mrs
What is the period Mrs ?
又是怎么一回事,虽然这些事听着很细碎
This is trivia today if ever you get on a game show,
但是以后如果你参加类似智力问答的节目
things you should know in life
这些都是你在生活中必须要知道的事情
Somehow it's tangentially related to what we're doing
这和我们正在做的事情有着微妙的联系
since we're talking about form
因为我们正在讨论形式问题
Mrs
Mrs
What's that abbreviational?
这是什么词的缩写
Mistress
Mistress
Mistress!
Misress