新概念英語第四冊
Lesson 33 Education
1 . what would civilization be like without its benefits?如果不受其惠，文明將會是個什麼樣子呢？
2 . in France in 1806, and in England in 1876,在法國是在1806年，在英國是在1876年。
3 . Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒涼地區的教育不是錢的問題，
4 . on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.實用心理學和與同伴相處的能力。
5 . There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents;荒涼地區的孩子無時無刻不在父母關懷下成長。
6 . Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all;在部落中，通過傳統繼承的知識為所有人共享，
7 . We would lay less stress on 'facts and figures'and more on a good memory,人們不會再重視"資料和數據"，而靠好記性、
8 . and is still non-existent in a number of 'civilized' nations.今天，在許多文明國家裡，義務教育迄今尚未實行。
9 . it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life.並傳授給部落中的每一個成員。人人受到的有關生活本領的教育是相等的。
10 . There are no'illiterates'----if the term can be applied to peoples without a script----因而沒有"文盲（如果這個字眼兒可以用於沒有文字的民族的話）。
11 . and no father is confronted with his inability to 'buy'an education for his child.也不存在父親無力為孩子支付教育費用而犯難的問題。
12 . In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all.在原始文化中，尋求和接受傳統教育的義務對全民都有約束力。
13 . A man without an education, many of us believe,我們許多人都相信，一個沒有受過教育的人，
14 . therefore the jungles and the savannahs know of no'juvenile delinquency'.因此，叢林和荒涼地區不知道什麼叫青少年犯罪"。
15 . Education is one of the key words of our time.教育是我們這個時代的關鍵詞之一。
16 . Convinced of the importance of education,深深懂得教育的重要性，
17 . is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances,是逆境的犧牲品，
18 . All are entitled to an equal start.所有的人都享有平等起步的權利。
19 . lawyers and defendants, marriages and births----律師和被告、婚姻和生育，
20 . This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the'happy few' during the past centuries.這說明，經過了多麼漫長的時間之後，我們才認識到，有必要確保我們的孩子享有多少個世紀以來由『少數幸運者』所積累起來的知識。
21 . while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642,而我們的義務教育成為法律在德國是在1642年，
22 . deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.被剝奪了20世紀最優越的機會之一。
23 . Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out,教育，以其教學週期如此精心地安排，
24 . There is none of the hurry which, in our society,那裡沒有我們今天社會中的匆忙生活，
25 . So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers,雖然我們還會有醫生和牧師、
26 . If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college'imaginable.如果我們的教育制度倣傚沒有書籍的古代教育，我們的學院將具有可以想像得出的最民主的形式了。
27 . No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children,人們沒有必要離家謀生，所以不會產生孩子無人管的問題，
28 . punctuated by textbooks----those purchasable wells of wisdom----並以教科書-那些可以買到的智慧源泉-予以強化，
29 . but our spiritual outlook would be different.但人們的精神面貌將是另一個樣子。
30 . often hampers the full development of a growing personality.而匆忙的生活常常妨礙個性的全面發展。
31 . in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders.便是培養出大批有知識的男女青年，這些人可能會成為未來的棟樑。
32 . It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.這就是我們最進步的現代教育試圖恢復的「平等起步」的理想狀況。
33 . modern states 'invest'in institutions of learning to get back 'interest'現代國家對教育機構投資，收回的"利息