The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centred on the child's ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would have given the pupil more motivation to seek improvement.

　　譯文：

　　老師注重錯(cuò)誤沒(méi)錯(cuò)，但是如果他更注重孩子的思想的話，他失望的表現(xiàn)會(huì)使孩子有提高的動(dòng)力。

　　For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.

　　譯文：

　　除了一些洲際旅行者和以大海為生的人，對(duì)于大多數(shù)人來(lái)說(shuō)，大海是遙遠(yuǎn)的，沒(méi)有什么必要提出太多問(wèn)題，更別說(shuō)思考大海海底的東西了。

　　Given the nature of government and private employers, it seems most likely that discrimination by private employers would be greater.

　　譯文：

　　根據(jù)政府和私人雇主的性質(zhì)來(lái)看，私人雇主更有可能采取歧視。

　　The release of the carbon in these compounds for recycling depends almost entirely on the action of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria and certain types of fungi.

　　譯文：

　　這種化合物通過(guò)碳的釋放來(lái)實(shí)現(xiàn)循環(huán)，主要依靠喜氧和厭氧細(xì)菌以及一些菌類的活動(dòng)。

　　A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a mouse era and a major who says that they haven't.

　　譯文：

　　一場(chǎng)激烈的爭(zhēng)論在一個(gè)女孩和一位少校中展開了，前者說(shuō)女人們已經(jīng)不再看到老鼠就從椅子上跳起來(lái)了，而后者說(shuō)她們依然那樣。

　　They are trying to find out whether there is something about the way we teach language to children which in fact prevents children from learning sooner.

　　譯文：

　　他們?cè)趪L試尋找是否我們教授孩子們語(yǔ)言的方法中有阻礙孩子們迅速學(xué)習(xí)語(yǔ)言的東西。