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M: Now both the government and the opposition party agreed that state schools are not good enough.
男：現在，政府和反對黨都認為公立學校不夠好。
M: And the Opposition is coming up with some new proposals of their own to improve them.
男：反對派也提出了一些新的建議來改善公立學校的情況。
M: But is their approach really all that different from the government's?
男：但他們的方法真的與政府不同嗎?
M: Today we have Theresa May, the shadow education secretary from the Opposition with us on the radio show.
男：今天，反對黨的影子內閣教育大臣，特蕾莎·梅來到了我們節目中。
M: Good afternoon, Theresa.
男：下午好，特蕾莎。
W: Good afternoon.
女：下午好。
M: Can I remind you of what John Major said only a few years ago when he was Prime Minister?
男：還記得約翰·梅杰幾年前擔任總理時所說的話嗎?
M: He said we should give people opportunity and choice.
男：他說我們應該給人們機會和選擇。
M: We don't mean some people. I mean everyone, opportunity for all. Well, that is precisely what the present government is saying, opportunity for all.
男：我們不是指某些人。我是說每個人都有機會。這正是當前政府所說的，為所有人提供機會。
W: The hallmark of this government is that what they say and what they actually do is always different. And that's no different in education.
女：當今政府的一大特點就是說一套做一套，在教育方面也是這樣。
W: What we see from the present government is that they may talk about opportunity for all,
女：我們經?？吹浆F在的政府談到為所有人提供機會。
W: they may talk about choice, but actually they are cutting opportunity and reducing choice.
女：談到讓人們有更多選擇，但是其實他們正在減少機會和選擇。
W: And what I think is most damaging is that actually they are giving a message
女：我認為最具破壞性的是實際上他們在傳遞這樣的信息：
W: Don't bother. If you are from a state school, there are barriers to be put in your place. But this is far from the truth.
女：不用掙扎了。如果你上了一所公立學校，那么你一定會遇到障礙。但這遠非事實。
W: Universities have been doing a very great deal to encourage state school pupils to apply.
女：許多大學一直在做大量工作來鼓勵公立學校的學生申請。
W: The point is that we still haven't got enough state school pupils applying to our leading universities.
女：問題是，申請一流大學的公立學校學生還不是很多。
M: But your government had 18 years to get more of them into Oxbridge.
男：可是反對黨政府18年中都未能有效增加牛津劍橋里公立學校學生的比例。
W: And indeed we increased the number of young people in this country going to university, from one in eight to one in three.
女：事實上，我們提高了年輕人是大學入學比例，從八分之一提高到三分之一。
W: The number of state pupils being accepted by Oxford and Cambridge and other leading universities, the proportion of state pupils has actually increased.
女：被牛津、劍橋等一流大學錄取的公立學校學生數量實際上增加了，比例也在提高。
W: But there is a problem in many of our secondary schools - of expectations.
女：但我們的許多中學都有一個問題——期望。
W: And it is the present government that has been leveling down expectations rather than raising them.
女：現在的政府是在降低人們的期望，而不是提高期望。
