新概念英语第四册45-04
发布时间：2012-12-26 编辑：查字典英语网小编
接下来课文...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. ...
convinced of: 被说服，相信=believing
states=nations=governments
‘invest’: 投资
institutions of learning : 学术机构
institutions of higher learning: 高等教育机构 大学
‘interest’: 利息
in the form of ... in the shape of...
enlightened: 有知识的
potential: 潜在=possible
elite: 精英
接下来课文...Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out,
punctuated by text-books--those purchasable wells of wisdom--what would civilization be like without its benefits ? ...
work out=design 设计
punctuate: 加强
those->books
wells: 源泉
wells of wisdom: 知识源泉
What would…(虚拟语气)
benefits: 裨益 it->education
without (虚拟语气的成分居多)=but for: 若不是，若没有
if there were not its benefits
The ideas that come to him so thick and fast, where are they now?
名词+疑问句=感叹句
Women, who can live with them? who can live without them?
Education is one of the key words of our time.
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