练习材料:
[Day 1784 2019-08-15]
Lesson 33-1 Education 教育
Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many
of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the
greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education,
modern states ‘invest’ in institutions of learning to get back ‘interest’ in the form of a
large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education,
with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks----those
purchasable wells of wisdom----what would civilization be like without its benefits?
So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and
defendants, marriages and births---but our spiritual outlook would be different. We
would lay less stress on ‘facts and figures’ and more on a good memory, on applied
psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.
任务配置:L0+L1+L4
知识笔记:
adverse circumstances 网络 逆境; 不利情况;
deprived of 网络 剥夺; 被剥夺;
enlightened adj. 开明的; 有见识的; 摆脱偏见的; v. 启发; 开导; 阐明;
punctuated v. 不时打断; 给…加标点符号;
preachers n. 传道者; 牧师;
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