新概念英语第四册46-02

bookless: 没有书本

Homeless ：无家可归的

childless：无子女 treeless (a treeless mountain) ：荒山

名词+less 构成反义词

接下来课文...If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college' imaginable. ...

democratic: 民主的

imaginable: 可以想象的

most+imaginable/possible (后置定语)

The most relax form possible is to go picnicking.

equality: 平等

same footing: 同一起点

接下来课文...Among the people whom we like to call savages all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is, equally equipped for life. ...

inherited by tradition is shared by all

equality：平等

in this respect / regard / area: 在这一角度而言

equip: 武装

equip (with knowledge) for life

接下来课文...It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.

强调

ideal 不具有比较最高级

progressive: 进步的

regain: 重新获得

'equal start '

ideal condition

Education can be spread to every man possible.

9 year compulsory educational system: 九年义务制

high school : 高中

接下来课文...In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. ...

primitive cultures=in ancient times

cultures: 国家

different cultures: 不同的国家

obligation: 义务

binding: 绑

bound

As one of the social members, you had to take responsibility to receive

education.