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公共英语3级精讲班第27讲讲义 Unit　27　　Education Unit 27 Education Dialogue 1: Tracy is talking with Philip and asking about how he considers his son’s education. Background knowledge: Boarding establishment 住宿学校 Single sex school 男女分开的学校 Grammar school （英国）文法学校，原指建于16世纪前后的注重拉丁语的学校，这些学校后来成为教授语言、历史、科学等的中学，现在也指大学预科。 Comprehensive school （英国）综合中学，招收的学生不分资质。 Language points: 1. For a start, I would have to be a mixed school and not a boarding establishment. 开始的时候，应该选择男女合校的学校并且不会是寄宿学校。 2. There’d have to be some form of streaming. 应该有某种形式的分班。 3. It’s nonsense to keep everybody at the same level regardless of their progress. 不考虑他们的进步把所有的人人以同样的水平对待是胡闹。 1) It’s nonsense to do sth 做某事是胡闹 2) regardless of ?prep. 不理会某人/某事物 regardless of the consequences, danger, expense He continued speaking, regardless of my feelings on the matter. ? Dialogue 2: Tim is interviewing Heidi about her experience of almost entirely being home-educated. 1.?????? My experience with deschooling was entirely unstructured. 我认为废除学校制度完全是无组织的。 2.?????? Nothing remotely school-like at all. 根本就不象学校。 remotely 常常与否定式搭配，强调“一点也不”或“根本不”。 It isn’t remotely possible that you will be chosen to go. The essay isn’t even remotely relevant to the topic. 3.?????? To say that I never compared myself to anybody else would be inaccurate, but real comparison wasn’t something I learned until I went to school. 说我从来不和任何人比较是不正确的，但是真正的比较是直到我进入学校才开始的。 compare sb to sb 把自己和某人进行比较 4.?????? I interacted with many people on a regular basis, both individuals and large groups of people of all different ages. 我定期的和很多人交流，有个人也有不同年龄的群体。 on a regular basis 有规律的，定期的 5.?????? I enjoy the company of people of all different ages. 我喜欢不同年纪的人的陪伴。 company 陪伴 I enjoy his company. ? Dialogue 3: Jack is a newcomer to Tim’s school and class. Now the two boys are talking about their feelings about schoolwork. 1.?????? I was really impressed with you in the mathematics class yesterday. 我在数学课上对你印象深刻。 be impressed with sb 对某人印象深刻 2.?????? But when his voice boomed