“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

“我们被关在中小学和大学的朗诵室里十年或十五年，最后出来满肚子墨水，却啥都不懂。”

Bob Cornwell returned to his home in California.Back home, he learned that the cost of building a primary school in Burma was just $15,000 to $20,000.

Bob Cornwell到在加州的家中，家后，了解到，在缅甸建造一所小学只需花费1.5万到两万美元。

He remembered being picked for teams during sport lessons at his old school. He had always been last to be chosen, not because he was no good, but because no one wanted Dudley to think they liked him.

想起在小学上体育课时分组的事。总是挑到最后剩一个人，这并不是因为不够好，而是因为谁也不想让达力认为们喜欢。

But his manner was so tedious that the King cried out, Stop! are you reciting a lesson in the elementary sounds?

的朗那么乏味造作，国王不禁大声呵斥，停下！你难道是小学生背诵课文？

The researchers found that individuals with 13 years of education were more myopic than those who didn't get past primary school.

研究人员发现，那些经历过13年书本洗礼学生的近视率比那些小学业业的人要高很多。

It’s not about making money for this former elementary school teacher.

对于这位前小学教师来说，这并不是为了赚钱。

I volunteered at Parkville (ph) elementary school.

我在帕克维尔小学当过志愿者。

Erm, actually it's at the primary school on Shore Lane.

事实上是在Shore Lane的一家小学里。

And that hair! You look like a scruffy little schoolboy!

有那头发！你看起来像个邋遢的小学生！

Or use those gold stars your elementary school teachers put on your outstanding papers.

你也可以画上金色的星号，那是小学老师在批改你写得很好的作业时所打的记号。

She was very shy while she was in elementary school.

她在小学的时候很怕羞。

American schoolchildren put their hands on their hearts as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

美国小学生在向国旗宣誓时，把手放在自己的心上。

Primary education is now free in the US. It's a tremendously variable quality, right?

现在美国的小学教育是免费的。这是一个巨大的可变质量，对吗？

Oh, you were still at primary school then.

哦，你们那时候是小学生。

I go to Happy Primary school. I am in Grade Six.

我上的学校是开心小学，我在六年级。

Who cares about a bunch of third graders?

三年级小学生的想法算什么？

Incredibly, all the students at Briarwood Elementary School have been accounted for.

令人难以置信的是, 布埃尔伍德小学所有学生已经受到了妥善安置。

If I have elementary students, I teach them this rule.

如果我教小学生，我会教们这条规则。

It would be unrealistic to devise a customised educations which caters to each pupil according to his aptitudes.

根据每个小学生的能力来制定个人教育，这也是不现实的。

So engrossed had they been in their gossip that they had not heard her light tread and now, confronted by their hostess, they looked like whispering schoolgirls caught by a teacher.

她们刚才专心致志地在那里叽咕议论，有听见媚兰轻盈的脚步，现在看见女主人站在面前，她们就像小学生咬耳朵，被老师当场抓住了一样。