系统班词汇
1. Truth, which used to be central to the mission of education, has been trivialized and fragmented by relativism, leaving education without a clear purpose.
曾经对于教育的使命至关重要的真理，被相对主义平凡化和分崩瓦解了，使得教育没有一个清晰的目的。
2. This attitude to life is actually century-old. We can trace it to the Qing Dynasty.
这种生活态度实际上有一个世纪那么古老。我们能溯源于清朝。
3. This insightful and prescient(先知性) essay deserves our renewed interest.
这篇富于见解的先知性的短文值得我们重续兴致。
4. All subjects are interrelated, because each subject deals with an a
spect of reality, and reality is a coherent whole.
科目都是内部联系的，因为每个科目应对真理的一个方面，而真理是一个连贯性
的整体。 5. In a history class, I was told that war is almost always between nei
ghbors who engaged in active economic, political, and cultural relations with one another.
在一次历史课上，我被告知战争几乎总是发生在二个相互有活跃的经济、政治和文化联系的邻国之间。
6. What disturbs me is that our society assumes a good life is synon
ymous with a good living.
让我忧心的是，我们的社会认为好的生命与好的生活同义。
7. But given the current perspectives of educators, it is extremely dif
ficult to solve the present problems with our higher education.
但是基于教育家最近的观点，解决我们当前的高等教育的问题是极其困难的。
8. Similarly, every educator makes decisions about what to pass along to his students. Those decisions are root in the educator's understanding of the meaning of life.
同样，每个教育家做决定传授什么给他的学生。这些决定根植于教育家对人生意义的理解。
9. The goal of education, then, is the cultivation of wisdom. This, essentially, is the goal the ancients attached to education. 那么，教育的目标是智慧的培育。这本来是祖先附于教育的目标。 10. Any immoral act will cause harm to the criminals and society at large.
任何不道德的行为将伤害罪犯和整个社会。
11. Education must equip students with the skills and the information n
eeded to make sense of reality.
教育须用必需的技巧和信息装备学生，使之懂得真理。
12. For a time this natural curiosity about the world can provide the m
otivation to learn, but unless this curiosity is supported with a sense of importance and excitement about knowledge, it will wither and die.
这种对于世界的天生的好奇心能暂时提供求知动机，但是，除非这种好奇心受一
种关于知
识的价值和激励的感觉支持，否则它将枯萎和衰亡。
13. The goal in writing is to lay out one's line of thought in such a wa
y that the reader can follow it easily.
写作的目的是展示某人的思路，用这种方法使读者能容易理解。
14. With a casual glance all the grasses looked the same; on closer obs
ervation, however, every plant was unique.
不经意地瞟一眼，所有的草看起来都相同，然而，更近距离地观察，每棵草都是
独特的。 15. Prior to 1940 great emphasis was placed on the need for students
to memorize facts, but this emphasis was attacked by those who charged that education should teach learning and analytical skills, not dry, undigested facts.
1940年以前，主要的重点放在要求学生记忆事实上，但是这个重点被那些人攻击，他们告
诫教育应当传授学习和分析的技巧而不是干巴巴的难以消化的事实。 16. Modern education assigns different pieces of knowledge to differen
t disciplines and does not allow any two disciplines to share the same piece of knowledge.
现代教育对不同的学科分配不同的知识区块，不允许任何二个学科分享同一块知
识。 17. Teaching, once a noble mission, has been transformed into just ano
ther job.
教学，曾经是一项高尚使命，被转变成仅仅是另一个工种了。
18. And I would venture to say that you should aim at discovering new
passions during the college years that will last a lifetime. 而且我冒昧地说，在大学期间你应当着力于发现将延续终生的新激情。 19. The authors believe the great books of biology will help students int
egrate their career skills into the larger cultural context, giving them a broader, more mature understanding of life.
作者认为，伟大的生物学著作将帮助学生融职业技能于更大的文化内容之中，使
之更宽广更
成熟地理解生命。
20. The treasurer was arrested because she had manipulated the company’s account.
那名财务因操纵公司帐目被捕了。
21. I know the children have been playing here: there are toys scattered about all over the carpet.
我知道孩子们在这儿玩过了，地毯上到处撒着玩具。
22. To avoid an oil shortage, more machines should utilize solar energy.
为避免石油短缺，更多的机器应当利用太阳能。
23. For most windows, we need transparent glasses so that the rooms are brighter.
对于大部分窗户，我们需要透明的玻璃，以保持房间更明亮。
24. There is an abundant resource of oil in this Middle East country.
在中东国家有丰富的石油资源。
25. The opening policies in China have certainly helped to accelerate
d our national economic development. 中国的开放政策必定有助于加速我们国家经济的发展。
26. The police were unable to solve the murder in the absence of any further evidence.
警察缺乏一些深入的证据，不能破那桩凶杀案。
27. All children in the neighborhood have access to the library during the afternoon.
下午邻近所有的孩子进了图书馆。
28. After working hard for years, he finally achieved his goal of possessing a farm of his own.
在多年的辛勤劳作之后，他最终实现了目标，拥有了一个自己的农场。 29. Before the teacher explained the text to us, he acquainted us wit
h the American history so that we could better understand the story.
老师在给我们解读课文之前，先介绍了美国历史，让我们能更好地理解那个故事。
30. Early in the morning he felt an acute pain in the belly and his par
ents had to send him to hospital for emergency treatment. 大清早他感到腹部一阵剧痛，父母不得不送他去医院急疹。 系统班词汇
31. I heard that this famous novel had been adapted for the cinema.
我听说这部著名小说被改编拍电影。
32. In addition to his salary, he earns a lot of money from royalties (版税).
除了薪水之外，他从版税上赚了很多钱。
33. You may have to wait for a while. The manager is addressing our new staff members.
你可能得等会儿。经理正在与我们的新职员谈话。
34. In order to promote the sale of their product, they are considering taking more aggressive marketing campaign.
他们为了促进自身产品的销售，正考虑采取更具侵略性的市场活动。