125所大學錄取
Alice and Stanley are high school classmates. They are chatting.
愛麗絲和史丹利是高中同學。他們正在聊天。
classmate(n.)同班同學schoolmate(n.)同校同學
Stanley: Hey, have you heard about this US high school student named Dennis Barnes?
史丹利：嘿，你有沒有聽說過一個名叫丹尼斯·巴恩斯的美國高中生？
Alice: No, who is he?
愛麗絲：沒有欸，他是誰啊？
Stanley: He’s been making headlines lately for applying to 200 colleges and was accepted to 125 of them!
史丹利：他最近因為申請了200所大學，然後被其中的125所大學錄取而躍上新聞版面！
make headlines成為頭條apply to申請(學校或機構)apply for申請(工作或獎學金)accept(v.)錄取、接受reject(v.)否決、拒絕
Alice: Wow, how did he do that?
愛麗絲：哇，他是怎麼做到的？
Stanley: Apparently, he has really good grades and is fluent in Spanish. He has also been offered scholarships worth $9 million!
史丹利：顯然他的成績非常好，而且能說流利的西班牙語。他還獲得了高達900萬美元的獎學金呢！
grade(n.)(評分、等級)成績fluent(adj.)流利的be fluent in+語言=某語言(說得)很流利
Alice: That’s amazing! What will he do with all that money?
愛麗絲：太厲害了吧！他會拿那筆錢來做什麼？
Stanley: I think he’ll be able to choose the college that’s the best fit for him and doesn’t have to worry about the cost of tuition.
史丹利：我想他將能夠選擇最適合他的大學，不必為學費煩惱。
be able to RV能夠做某事fit(n.)合適cost of tuition學費
Alice: That makes sense. So, what else do we know about this Dennis?
愛麗絲：說得也是。那麼，關於這位丹尼斯，我們還知道些什麼？
Stanley: He attends the International High School of New Orleans and has a 4.98 GPA. He’s also taking classes at Southern University at New Orleans.
史丹利：他就讀於新奧爾良國際高中，GPA成績高達4.98。他也在新奧爾良的南方大學上課。
attend(v.)出席、到場、參加Grade Point Average(GPA)學業成績平均點數
Alice: Is he waiting for more scholarship offers from other universities?
愛麗絲：他還在等其他大學提供更多獎學金嗎？
wait for…等待～
Stanley: Yes, and his goal is to obtain scholarship offers adding up to $10 million.
史丹利：是的，他的目標是獲得總計1,000萬美元的獎學金。
obtain(v.)獲得、得到=getadd up to總共是、合計為
Alice: He must have worked really hard to achieve all that.
愛麗絲：他一定是非常用功才能實現這一切。
achieve(v.)實現、達成(目標)