1. Because of my dark skin, kids at school called me names; I often got mugged coming home from school. My diving made me feel good about myself when my peers made me feel stupid. 由于我肤色黑,常常遭到学校里孩子们的辱骂。放学回家时常常遭到欺负。尽管同龄孩子们让我觉得自己不如别人,但跳水却使我对自己有了信心。
2. With school in session every weekday plus Saturday morning 10 months of the year, Japanese students have almost 60 more class days annually than their American peers. 日本学校的上课时间为每周五天再加星期六上午,每年10个月,这样,日本学生每年的上课日比他们的美国同龄人几乎多60天。
3. Train teenagers to educate their peers. Because AIDS is spreading fastest among teenagers in the rural South, the stylists have established an "AIDS Busters" program which trains youth from 8 to 26 to go into the community and teach "A 培训青少年去教育自己的同龄人。由于艾滋病在南部农村地区的青少年当中传播速度最快,发型设计师们设立了一个称为“艾滋病克星”的项目,培训8到26岁的青少年,让他们到社区给同龄人上“艾滋病101”课程。
4. Home schooling could change children's relations with their peers and older people because of long periods spent with their parents. 家庭学校可能改变孩子们与同龄人和大人的关系,因为孩子和家长待在一起的时间很长。
5. He thinks children must spend time with peers to learn the rules of work in a democratic(民主的) society and to learn how to deal with relations with more people than just their parents. 他认为孩子们必须有时间和同龄人相处,以了解民主社会的工作规则,学会如何与更多人打交道,而不仅仅是与父母相处。
6. (A companion study showed girls' popularity with their peers was also related to the popularity of their names — although the connection was less clear for boys.) (一个与之配套的研究表明:女孩受同龄人欢迎的程度也与她们的名字受欢迎的程度有关系。虽然对男孩来说这种关系不太明显。)
7. In this way, students gain great insight from their peers, learning from each other as well as the instructor. 这样,学生可以从同龄人那里获得真知灼见,既向老师求教,又互相学习。