crash course

Huntley's husband volunteered for an American Bar Association project in Kosovo to help create a new legal system in the fall of 2000, the year after NATO bombing had ended. With trepidation, Huntley decided to go, too, enrolling first in a crash course on the teaching of English as a second language so she'd have something to offer.

2000年九月，寶拉‧韓特莉隨丈夫艾德到科索沃當義工。艾德把美國法律學院的工作辦了留職停薪，赴聯合國接管下的科索沃，協助創建司法體系。56歲的寶拉，從驚懼、抗拒，「哪兒都好，就是不要科索沃！」到接受。為愛走天涯，她辭去工作，思考自己能為當地人做什麼，於是考了英語教師的認証。
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
Paula Huntley (著)

書名：科索沃海明威讀書俱樂部
作者：Paula Huntley
譯者：黃建功
出版：允晨文化公司

crash course noun [C]
a course that teaches you a lot of basic facts in a very short time:
I did/took a crash course in French before my trip to Paris.