1. Once on the edge of the educational system, such schools, or jukus, are now so common in Japan that, especially for those people at the top level of society, they have begun to function as a kind of shadow educational system, replacing regular school
    这些专门对付考试的课外学校（日语中称为juku），曾是教育体制的次要成分，如今却在日本非常普及，尤其对上层社会的人群而言，它们已经开始成了一种影子教育体制，在家长和学生、乃至两三岁的孩童心目中，它们的重要性已经取代了正规学校。

2. Last night there was a full moon.
    昨晚是满月.

3. Little boys who play truant from school are unimaginative.
    逃学的男孩子们是缺乏想象力的。

4. Little boys who play truant from school are unimaginative.
    逃学的男孩子们是缺乏想象力的。

5. Later, when night fell, Kaz and her brother made for the mountains; a friend from Kaz's factory lived in a village on the slope of a hill behind the city and had offered to take them in.
    接着，夜幕降临了，和子和她弟弟往山里走；和子厂里的一个朋友住在市区后面一个小山坡上的村子里, 表示愿意收留他们。

6. Leslie Barson is already running the type of school that researchers think will teach children in the future.
    莱斯利·巴森已在管理着一种研究人员认为在将来用于教育孩子的学校。

7. Like most city folks, I'm cautious. I scan the street and pathways for anything — or anyone — unusual before pulling into the garage. That night was no exception.
    和大多数城里人一样，我非常小心谨慎。在把车开进车库前，我会扫视街道和周围的小路，看看有没有异常的人或东西。那天晚上也不例外。

8. Let your parents know how you feel, and let them know how they can reduce school stress for you, while still encouraging good grades.
    让你的父母知道你是怎么想的，也让他们知道如何为你减少学习压力，而同时又仍然在鼓励你取得好成绩。

9. Last fall, the Hyde Foundation opened a magnet program within a public high school in the suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut, over parents' protests.
    去年秋天，在家长的一片抗议声中，海德基金会在康涅狄格州纽黑文市郊区的一所中学内启动了一个引人注目的教学计划。

10. Laurie and I have stopped over for a night to be with my mother.
    我和劳里中途在妈妈那里停留了一晚。