What are your hopes for your college experience?
你对你的大学经历有什么期望？
A brief essay helps us get to know you. Please write an essay about why you are intere[……]
作者： 陈 欣
AADPS创始人
go the extra mile
释义：“百尺竿头，更进一步”，形容为取悦他人而加倍努力，或以超出期望的方式完成指定的任务，常在推荐信和留学文书中出现。
例句：
He’s a nice guy, always ready to go the extra mile for his friends[……]
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein[……]
egg [sb.] on
释义：“怂恿、撺掇”，在留学文书里描写小伙伴们在一旁起哄让做坏事时可以这么说。
例句：
The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the win[……]
The Road to Rice（莱斯大学申请记）
duck and cover
释义：“蹲下并寻找掩护！”这是美国在冷战时期训练学生遭遇核弹攻击时的应对方法，不过事后看来在有效性上很有疑问。
例句：
If you recall the old duck and cover movies and all the old drills, every[……]
unceremonious
释义：本意是和ceremonious相对表示事情是“非正式的”，但在留学文书里也常常引申用来体现“突然的、狼狈的”。
例句：
Jacob King performs an unceremonious dismount during a recent rodeo.
A[……]
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
—Samuel Johnson[……]