加拿大大学生为省房租露营后花园

时间：2015-07-24 07:55:00

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Evan Eames, 24, from Canada, asked strangers online if he could camp in their back gardens when he realised he could not afford to pay rent on top of international tuition fees for an Masters in Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.

埃文·埃姆斯今年24岁，来自加拿大。他在曼彻斯特大学天体物理学专业攻读硕士，当他意识到自己交完国际学生学费后再付不起房租时，他便在网络上询问陌生人，是否可以露营在他们家的后花园中。

 
He received an offer from generous Stockport resident Charley Mantack after posting adverts1 on websites Gumtree and Reddit.
 
Evan went on to spend 10 months camping in all weather in her back garden in Heaton Chapel2 - and it didn't cost him a penny.
 
In exchange, he tutored Miss Mantack, 34, in maths and physics as she was studying for GCSEs at Stockport College.
 
He said the experience of camping in winter surrounded by snow was not too bad, but found it more difficult in the damp Manchester drizzle3.
 
Miss Mantack would often offer her spare bedroom when the snow was heavy, but the Canadian was determined4 to carry on camping.
 
In the cold winter months he wore two pairs of thermal5 pants, a sweater, a onesie and a jacket.
 
Inside the tent he kept some food, shelves for his toothbrush and floss, headlamp, book, sleeping bag and a mat, with his laptop locked up safely in his university office.
 
He would use the shower in the university's Alan Turing Building to keep clean.

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1 adverts c82a22098d5133b18bfb64b60b66048d     
advertisements 广告，做广告
参考例句：
  • the adverts on television 电视广告
  • The adverts are not very informative. 这些广告并没有包含太多有用信息。
2 chapel UXNzg     
n.小教堂，殡仪馆
参考例句：
  • The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
  • She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。
3 drizzle Mrdxn     
v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨
参考例句：
  • The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。
  • Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。
4 determined duszmP     
adj.坚定的；有决心的
参考例句：
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
5 thermal 8Guyc     
adj.热的，由热造成的；保暖的
参考例句：
  • They will build another thermal power station.他们要另外建一座热能发电站。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。

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