| 单词 | swot |
| 例句 | The two of them sit down to talk for half an hour, then Judy goes across the room to swot up on the material for The One Show, while Richard stays chatting to me. Richard and Judy: 'I wouldn't remotely want to do television again' 2011-02-07T08:00:06Z She'd had two great years appearing in plays, and didn't want to spoil her memories with a year of swotting. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z At their secondary school in Sligo, he is a popular sporting hero, while she is the scratchy school swot. 'The stakes were really high': the stars of Normal People on bringing Sally Rooney's novel to TV 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z A bespectacled swot at the time, the experience transformed him. My teenage crush on the Rolling Stones won't fade away 2012-11-26T15:14:54Z All the other guitarists at the audition had swotted up on his back catalogue ... Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z He added that although his mother is a singing teacher and one of his sisters is an opera singer, he really doesn’t know much about classical music and had to “swot up” in the library. Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z "Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, there's definitely a swot inside me." David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z “I was no longer the little school swot,” he writes, claiming his superpower musical identity once and for all. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z For my ancient language I swotted up Latin in six weeks and squeaked through the test, which was written-only. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z I should say that if you fancy swotting up on who's nominated this year, the full list is here. Brit awards 2011: Live coverage 2011-02-15T18:57:00Z Campion calls the two of them “swots,” the British term for a wonk, and an appropriate one for the pair who spent an entire year prepping for “The Power of the Dog.” Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The broadcast took six months to negotiate and fell through on several occasions, before the presenter Kirsty Young travelled to Naypyidaw in Burma after "swotting for this interview like I was doing an exam". Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs 2013-01-27T14:12:00Z The group swotted up on theory, then spent a month out west in Vegas, staying in repossessed houses and doing everything from interviewing a professional gambler to visiting the city's oldest topless bar. TEAM's Mission Drift: The money markets are in meltdown. Send for Elvis 2011-08-07T21:31:01Z A third, wearing glasses, was a “swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb.” ‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You? 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z She calls herself a swot, which translates roughly to an overenthusiastic student. Helena Bonham Carter distills the essence of Princess Margaret for 'The Crown' 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z He is, in other words, that person mocked by Johnson: a swot. Breaking the mould: Leo Varadkar is no typical Irish politician 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He also called former prime minister David Cameron a “girly swot” — a schoolboy taunt for overly diligent students — in a leaked cabinet paper. Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused of groping a journalist 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z There was further embarrassment after it emerged that Johnson referred to Cameron as a “girly swot” in a recent cabinet paper. Boris Johnson short of options as rebels vow to secure Brexit delay 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But, as for Mr Johnson, we've now learnt that he described Mr Cameron as a "girly swot" for agreeing when he was PM to allow the Commons to sit for longer hours in September. Brexit's big week: Five things that happened on Friday 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The sweaty palms, the swotting, the tricky question that prompts your heart to plummet: job interviews are no one’s idea of a good time. We know life is a game of chance, so why not draw lots to see who gets the job? | Sonia Sodha 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z I wasn’t a swot exactly, but I loved to learn and was never without a book. 'The sense I was clever was knocked out of me': confessions of a uni dropout 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He swotted up on the law by reading cases online and watching YouTube videos. 'I sued my boss and won' 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Unlike Charlie, he was “a real swot. I poured everything into schoolwork.” David Nicholls: ‘Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Speaking in a video for the Back2School campaign, she said she started being teased at her private sixth form, where there were "very few girls", because she was a "swot". Presenter reveals school sexual harassment 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z With his crew cut and glasses, he looks like a school swot. Ricardo Anaya, Mexico’s young hopeful 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The ginger tom officially belongs to the deputy librarian at the Marshall Library of Economics, and "tea with Jasper" events have proved popular with those wanting a break from swotting. Whiskers in the workplace: More cats with careers 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z She is not looking for swots, but people who are “engaging, good on the phone”. Going to university is more important than ever for young people 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z I was a real swot and a comedy nerd. David Nicholls: ‘Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Markle has “got to be swotting,” he added, using British slang that, as she will some day come to understand, means “to study assiduously.” So, Meghan Markle, Are You Familiar With the Statute of Rhuddlan? 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Markle has “got to be swotting,” he added, using British slang that, as she will come to understand, means “to study assiduously.” First test of a royal romance: How well she knows his country 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Where Purves was the school swot and Singleton the prim head girl, Noakes was the boy at the back of the class disrupting the lesson. John Noakes: The action man of Blue Peter - BBC News 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z That adjustment came after a defeat by Arsenal in September, and the Belgian underlined its wisdom by scoring one of the goals of the season when Chelsea swotted aside the same opponents in February. Premier League 2016-17 review: player of the season 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z When not giving advice they are visiting jails, swotting up on immigration law and monitoring social media for alerts about raids. America’s millions of Mexicans without documents live in fear of deportation 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z And besides, some critics add, there is little useful to learn from the results, since it is parents alone that encourage swots. What the world can learn from the latest PISA test results 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Their traders swot up on all sorts of exotic sporting knowledge, but for the Paralympics they will only be putting up odds for the likes of David Weir and Ellie Simmonds, if at all. Rio Paralympic Games: Why bookies won't be taking many bets - BBC News 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Zheng assumed she had been busy swotting up for her exam and thought little of it. The day Zhao Wei disappeared: how a young law graduate was caught in China's human rights dragnet 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z For all his brains and later academic renown, he was no swot: he started cramming five days before finals, from an undemanding textbook nicknamed “Economics for the Half-witted Child”. The man who told us so 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z He set aside books about fantasy and magic to swot up on space exploration. 'If I burn out, I burn out': meet Taylor Wilson, nuclear boy genius 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z So if you want to get the scoop on friends and colleagues, swot up on this list… Apple iOS 9 Preview: Everything You Need To Know 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z "I'm more interested in swotting up on what's happening in the Middle East rather than Top Gear." What do the leaders do in their free time? - BBC News 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z But this is not Beijing; this is Brooklyn, where Harvey is swotting early for a controversial exam. Asians beware 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z At City, the coaches recall how they would give him DVDs to swot up on the opposition then realise he was watching Laurel and Hardy movies instead. No surprise that Liverpool found Mario Balotelli was going for a song 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Eventually he puts an end to my annoying questions by swotting them with: "I can guarantee that I know." Duncan Smith: Ready to sail into sunset? 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z So rest easy doc, no need to swot up on all those unfathomable parts of the anatomy that the Belgian regularly twangs. Football transfer rumours: Tom Cleverley to Everton? 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z You play schoolboy Eric, and on-screen can see the whole school and other characters – the headmaster, teachers, the bully, the swot and so on. The 30 greatest British video games 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet Hodgson has not been swotting up a great deal on the opposition. England’s feelgood factor in stark contrast to the Fabio Capello years 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Failing that you can always claim to have had better things to do during the past week than swot up on current affairs. Quiz of the week's news 2013-06-21T00:16:08Z Sherard Cowper Coles, the principal private secretary to Robin Cook, said his charge studied his papers like "the school swot" on the plane out to European council meetings. Who was greatest foreign secretary? 2013-05-14T01:30:45Z Photograph: Gary Calton The monks pace serenely in their long black habits, to a background of chanted psalms and obedient students from Ampleforth College swotting for exams. Ampleforth monks mix history, religion and malts in unique new beer 2012-06-19T15:11:34Z Lord, how we worked and swotted sore To be fit when the day should come! The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z "I told 'em to keep my fire in—I'm going to swot like blazes to-night." In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z I got into a railway carriage at a country station the other morning and settled down for what the schoolboys would call an hour's "swot" at a Blue-book. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z I'm not the only one who's swotting, you may depend upon it, and some people's brains may be more curly than mine. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z Could it be that he has simply swotted his way to sophistication in a bid to please his wife? Le culture vulture 2011-07-29T23:52:39Z Just drill and march and drill again, And swot at the old parade, But they got two hundred thousand men. The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z "I didn't intend to come round, and I'm going back to swot." In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z England's Alastair Cook is still learning to be a bully rather than a swot. England's spluttering batting order is still missing a few parts 2011-07-09T18:37:29Z Grubbe was content to accept the stigma of "swot" because it carried with it permission to work as hard and as openly—one had almost said as flagrantly—as he pleased. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z There, you'll be swotting virtual flies, creating hairstyles, painting pictures and lots of other daft challenges. PlayStation Move: a beginner's guide 2010-09-17T08:59:00Z But, of course, football is seldom that straight-forward, especially with England, even if they did canter through their last qualifying campaign and swotted Bulgaria aside with ease on Friday. Switzerland v England - live! 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z My next novel is partly set in the City, so I've been swotting up on what goes on there. Why heed the fickle gods of?traders in underpants? 2010-05-25T19:00:00Z Alastair Cook is still learning to be a bully rather than a swot. England's spluttering batting order is still missing a few parts 2011-07-09T18:37:29Z A group of seniors swotting for the SAT reel off a list of Ivy League schools they're applying to. The Turkish Imam And His Global Educational Mission 2010-04-18T18:20:00Z While I was swotting up, I had encountered the intriguing suggestion that Yazidis are forbidden to eat lettuce. Ancient rituals 2010-04-03T12:34:00Z "Inspired by Justine:doing some air one handed backhands down the line with some fade while swotting up for interview on Fri." 2010-01-25T23:56:00Z Since you've swotted up into the Upper Sixth, you've turned into a very good imitation of the prigs you associate with. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Well, we all go to the same college, and we all promise to swot hard. Changing Winds A Novel His tormentors realised that he was not a mere "swot," that he had fists and knew how to use them. War Letters of a Public-School Boy He has been moping in his hut for the past week," said Hamilton thoughtfully, "but I was hoping that it meant that he was swotting for his exam. The Keepers of the King's Peace "As a matter of fact, I got the British Consul to send me a local directory and swotted it." The Book of All-Power I shall spend my life looking after the property, and there’s no particular need to swot for that.” A College Girl I'll swot up my Latin like anything next term, so as to read about you.' The Magic City My diagnostic eye had foreseen a birthday and, as a matter of fact, I was getting rather funky and wishing I had Hermann's 'Midwifery' to swot up. Captivity You fellows swot, and I sit in the orchestra chairs. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making The amount of their lingo that kid taught me—'We, we' and 'Bong swot' and 'Commong voo potty we' and all—and I taught him English. The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War A fellow may swot himself into a rag, and not a word will be said, but if he oversteps an inch for his own amusement there’s the dickens to pay. A College Girl He's an awful chap to make you swot. The Tree of Heaven He took out his handkerchief, rubbed his head and forehead violently, and exclaimed in his Perthshire dialect,—"It maks one swot." Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 Swot.—I have often heard military men talk of swot, meaning thereby mathematics; and persons eminent in that science are termed "good swots." Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 He says that cheek is often more help than a lot of swoting and grinding. A Young Girl's Diary "I believe by sitting up all night and swotting——" "Here, I say!" said Pillingshot, alarmed. The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories "I'm half glad that it isn't," Bob said; "I don't see how a fellow could go back to swotting over books after being really alive for nearly five years." Back to Billabong I have often heard it said:—"I never could do swot well, Sir;" and "these dull fellows, the swots, can talk of nothing but triangles and equations." Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 Indeed, he was only saved from being considered a swot, to use the vernacular, by the fact that from childhood's earliest hour he had been in the habit of keeping wicket like an angel. A Prefect's Uncle As Stanning was the only one of his rivals of whom he had any real fear, Sheen might have replied with justice that, if that was the case, the more he swotted the better. The White Feather Let me swot him one!' begged the man with the pistol; a most unlovable person. The Little Nugget He thought it "uncommonly hard" that he should have to spend the whole summer "swotting." This Freedom This was a God-send to the "gentlemen cadets," wishing to achieve a notoriety as wits and slangsters; and mathematics generally ever after became swot, and mathematicians swots. Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 Oh, I say, after I've swotted my head off all these months! In the Wilderness It ought to be, if there is any justice in things, for it will be an awful swot to write it when I have so many things to think of now. The Lady of the Shroud To “slack” it this term, with the full determination of “swotting” it the next, is always easy; the difficulty beginning only with the new term. Tommy and Co. |
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