1. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types seem in some way better than their B type fellows.
[参考译文] 现在这种让孩子们和其同学或时间竞争的热情导致了一个双层结构,在这个结构里面善于竞争的A类好像在某个方面要比他们B类的同辈更胜一筹。
2. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your "wares" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
[参考译文] 在跟你谈话的时候,可能成为你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教育、经 验和其他资格是不是值得他雇用你,而你的"商品"和能力一定要以一 种有条不紊而且合情合理的相互关联的方式被展示出来。
3. The Corporation will survive as a publicly funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a nation wide debate in Britain.
[参考译文] 英国广播公司将作为一个公共基金支持的广播组织存在下来,至少目前 会这样,但是它的角色、它的规模和它的节目现在在英国成了全国上下 的讨论话题。、