乐鱼官网-斯威实力强劲，实现一连串胜利

　　Not much food for thought

　　Children in the Chinese countryside tend not to be as healthy as their urban counterparts. But those at rural boarding schools are even less robust. They are more likely to have intestinal wormsand to be anaemic(which affects both academic accomplishment and health). Far more are unusually short for their age than non-boarders—a sign of poor nutrition. A study in 2009 in the northern province of Shaanxi found that rural children who boarded were on average 3cm shorter than those who did not. Many of the boarders may have been undernourished earlier in their lives. But their rate of stuntingincreased with age, suggesting that school was aggravatingthe problem.

　　Robust

　　1. strong and healthy强健的；强壮的:

　　She was almost 90, but still very robust.她将近 90 岁了,但身体仍然十分强健。

　　2. strong; able to survive being used a lot and not likely to break结实的；耐用的；坚固的

　　a robust piece of equipment经久耐用的设备

　　3. (of a system or an organization 体制或机构) strong and not likely to fail or become weak 强劲的；富有活力的:

　　robust economic growth强劲的经济增长

　　4. strong and full of determination; showing that you are sure about what you are doing or saying 坚定的；信心十足的

　　Intestinalworms肠道蠕虫，寄生虫

　　Anaemic

　　1. suffering from anaemia贫血的；患贫血症的:

　　She looks anaemic.她看来像是有贫血症。

　　2. weak and not having much effect 衰弱无力的；无生气的（同 feeble）

　　an anaemic performance一场有气无力的表演

　　StuntV.

　　to prevent sb / sth from growing or developing as much as they / it should 阻碍生长；妨碍发展；遏制:

　　The constant winds had stunted the growth of plants and bushes. 老是刮风,花草、灌木长不大。

　　N.

　　1. a dangerous and difficult action that sb does to entertain people, especially as part of a film / movie (尤指电影中的)特技表演:

　　He did all his own stunts.所有特技都是他自己演的。

　　2. (sometimes disapproving) something that is done in order to attract people's attention意在引人注意的花招；噱头:

　　a publicity stunt 宣传噱头

　　3. (informal) a stupid or dangerous act 愚蠢行为；危险举动:

　　I've had enough of her childish stunts.她那些幼稚的愚蠢行为我受够了。

　　Aggravating

　　1. to make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse 使严重；使恶化

　　Pollution can aggravate asthma.污染会使气喘加重。

　　2. (informal) to annoy sb, especially deliberately (尤指故意地)激怒,惹恼

　　Teaching quality and facilities are sometimes better at the merged schools, but staff turnoveris often high. The large size of classes can make teaching more difficult: at Jiaoba some of them have 75 children. Academically, boarders perform even worse than their peers who live at home. Last year a study of boarders in five provinces found they did less well than day pupilsin tests of their language ability, memory and speed at problem-solving (there was little difference, however, in their abilities in maths). Students who begin their primary education in old-style village classrooms tend to do better than those who start in larger schools farther away, according to some findings.

　　Turnover~ (of sb) the rate at which employees leave a company and are replaced by other people人事变更率；人员调整率:

　　a high turnover of staff很高的人员变更率

　　day pupils走读生

　　Boarders often suffer from a lack of supervisionand emotional support. At Jiaoba, two elderly women stay in the dormitory building overnight. But teachers there admit that some students are “withdrawn”. Children who live at their schools are more proneto anxiety, depression and other mental-health problems. They are also vulnerable to sexual and other forms of abuse: a spate of such incidents has been reported at rural boarding schools in recent years; far more may go undetected.

　　Since the merger policy was adopted, drop-out rates may have risen. In 2012 the National Audit Officefound that the number of students who quit had more than doubled between 2006 and 2011 in 1,155 primary schools it investigated. That was a rare admission by a government body. The official drop-out rate for all primary schoolchildren in China was 0.2% in 2015, but researchers at Shaanxi Normal University reported a rate 20 times higher than that in a survey of 15,000 children aged 9 to 11 in the countryside.

　　In recent decades China has seen rapid improvements in educational standards. The average number of years a Chinese child spends at school has doubled since 1980. The share of the labour force with any kind of higher education increased from 1.1% in 1980 to 12.5% in 2015. But these statistics often obscure how far rural children are left behind academically. Less than 10% of them go to senior high school, compared with 70% of children in cities.

　　The government acknowledges that its efforts to concentrate resources in a smaller number of rural schools have not solved the problem, and have sometimes resulted in students having to live in poor conditions without adequate safeguards. In 2012 it ordered local authorities to stop “blindly” closing schools before ensuring that centralised ones are up to standard. But local governments have little incentiveto spend more money, since any student who does well academically is certain to leave the countryside. Rural children will form the backbone of China’s future workforce. By failing them, the government is failing the country as a whole.

　　Supervision监督;管理；Supervision is the supervising of people, activities, or places.A toddler requires close supervision and firm control at all times.刚学步的孩子时刻需要寸步不离的照看，并要牢牢看紧。

　　withdrawnnot wanting to talk to other people; extremely quiet and shy沉默寡言的；怕羞的；内向的

　　Prone ~ to sth / to do sth likely to suffer from sth or to do sth bad 易于遭受；有做(坏事)的倾向

　　Working without a break makes you more prone to error.连续工作不停歇使人更容易出错。

　　Spate~ of sth a large number of things, which are usually unpleasant, that happen suddenly within a short period of time

　　一连串,接二连三(通常指不愉快的事物):

　　The bombing was the latest in a spate of terrorist attacks.这次炸弹爆炸事件是一连串恐怖主义袭击中最近的一起。

　　Incentive~ (for / to sb / sth) (to do sth) something that encourages you to do sth 激励；刺激；鼓励:

　　tax incentives to encourage savings鼓励储蓄的税收措施

　　There is no incentive for people to save fuel.没有使人们节约燃料的鼓励办法。

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