Imagine your frustration, you spend weeks, months even, revising for an exam paper and then one of the questions that comes your way appears to be utterly unfathomable.

想象一下，你花了数周，甚至数月复习考试内容，然后考试时一个问题半路杀出，让你完全摸不着头脑。

One perplexed student, known on social media site Imgur as 'Esperagon' and thought to be a student at Sheridan College in Toronto, found himself in exactly that situation after reading a question on his film degree paper and finding that no amount of preparation would ever see him get the right answer.

社交网站Imgur上一个叫“Esperagon”的学生，正处于这种迷茫的情形下：他是多伦多谢尔丹学院的学生，正在攻读电影学位，他在自己的试卷上遇到了一个考题。他发现，就算再怎么复习，他也答不出这道题。

So what was the blundering brainteaser? 'What is a microphone?'

这道题究竟是个什么鬼？——问：“麦克风是什么？”

A simple enough question you might think? However, no explanation of the audio equipment would lead to marks because listed below it were only two answers: true or false.

你会想这问题也太简单了吧？然而，对这个音频设备进行的任何解释都不得分。因为下面只有两个答案：“正确”或“错误”。

Esperagon wrote on the caption accompanying a photo of question: 'I am a film student. This was a question on my sound recording test.'

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