例如学生入学时登记注册的场景。如果你平时记住了关于register的词汇，如registration，course enrollment form，signed by academic advisor，get the department’s approval，tables set up aIl the way around，stamp your form，approved，pay for tuition，officially enrolled，pick up identification card。
2.剃头：hardly bald, hairstyle change for not covering the eyes, cut curl hair
3.搭车：pick up the third one at the airline, give me a ride to the office
4.穿衣: a jean and T-shirt for interview is casual, clothes is wet before the concert
5.花需要光: put the flower to the window, the bookcase will prevent the sunlight, need the fresh
6.忘了: slip my mind, forgot to give the note to someone
7.图书馆: spend the whole day in the library, make the photocopy at library, meet at the library, return the books to the library, library is a better place to study
8.室友: looking for a roommate, roommate should apologize, roommate is too noisy,
9.吃的:fish can’t be eat, berry is a bush even for a bird, bread is over toasted, vegetables are over cooked, bread may be in the refrigerator,
10.借东西: lend me calculus book(calculator), borrow the money from check, borrow car for shopping
11.天气：clean up for picnic, cold enough for skating, snowing too much to fly, so hot that we need an air conditioner,
12.作业能否完成：wait till the last minute, chemistry test without time for reading, fill out the financial aid form without the priority, paper extended to the next week
13.第三者: have done it for me
14.排队: magazine to kill the time, read the magazine twice, go early for not queue
15.得病看医生: need another doctor, it is open till 10 at the health center, take the pill the doctor assigned,
16.没空帮忙: can’t give you a ride due to the meeting tomorrow morning,
17.锻炼减肥: lost weight, two blue clothes but one with the large size
18.电影或音乐会: see the concert twice make sense again, sell ticket to you so that you come with me, lectured by some professor is worth watching,
19.还书: return so as not to pay fine, help me return the books,
20.重新考虑以前的决定: reconsider your decision,
21.转让: movie ticket
22.加入社团: garden club, find another committee member to replace,
23.认不出来: beard, bother is different,
24.住房: find an apartment under 500 dollars, find a larger apartment, live nearer to the campus
25.放松: join a entertainment club for leisure, spend more time outdoors,
26.约会: (appointment), reschedule one of the appointment
27.关门了(过期了): museum closed, cafeteria closed,
28.照相: film run out, film not processed, film not good
一般说来，新到的留学生必须在真正开课的前一周内到系里报道，这是系里有个international advisor将给你关于选课，选专业住宿等方面的指导，并且递给你一大摞学习生活方面的介绍的资料，甚至一张本校的地图。然后让你参加一个由international students office举行的international students orientation，内容都是关于美国大学的生活指导，如留学生在入学后的9个月内不能在校外打工，收入要上税等，还有关于枪支泛滥，大学生活的安全等问题。
当然，美国大学之最大不同于其他国家在于其丰富的课外生活。Weekend是个很热门的话题。美国大学里的生活分得清清楚楚，学习就学习，娱乐就娱乐。看电影(movie or film)，看展览(exhibition)，海洋馆(aquarium)，欣赏音乐会(concert)，出外烧烤(picnic or barbecue )，滑冰滑雪(skating),到外地旅游(travel)或者干脆在校内的apartment中举行周末party。健身房(fitness center)也是一个很受欢迎的地方,特别是对那些想减肥的人来说。此外，运动爱好者青睐football, tennis和骑自行车racing。课外生活还有参加各种各样的社团组织，如student government, co-op, club来增加与其它同学的交往，或者发起某种运动。
关于购物
另外，由于美国的大学一般都在郊区，虽然每个大学都有自己的商店(叫store or campus connection)但商品不全，而且较贵，所以大部分的同学都到校外较远的商场(mall or shopping market)去采购。由于离学校比较远，所以开车去，或坐公共汽车(bus)，或搭别人的车(pick).
