daad外刊讲评：校园霸凌
①“THEY forced my ten-year-old son to wear ud toilet paper on his head,” complained a mother in Beijing on WeChat, a Chine social-media site, in 2016.② Her post soon went viral. ③It touched a nerve in a country where school bullying has traditionally been en as a rite of passage.④ Her son’s school, one of the best in Beijing, dismisd the brouhaha as “harmless mischief between kids”.⑤But a spate of reports about even more vicious acts of bullying at other schools soon followed.
①Surveys in Britain and America consistently show that the biggest worry parents have for their school-age children is that they will be bullied.② In Japan more pupils commit suicide on September 1st, just before the start of the new term, than on any other day.③ But educators struggle to spot bullying, let alone to stop it. ④Many victims are too ashamed to tell a teacher.⑤ One former victim who recently finished high school in Vancouver says he kept the pain to himlf for veral months, worried that teachers would “judge” him.
Mean girls and boys指的就是那些校园霸凌者。这里的mean意思是 unkind, for example by
not letting sb have or do sth不善良、刻薄。
比如说，honestlyDon’t be so mean to your little brother.别对你弟弟那么刻薄。
吵架英文美国反叛女林赛罗韩还是乖乖女的时候演过一部电影叫Mean Girls，闲暇之余可以看一下！
mean做形容词时还有很多意思，比如1.平均的2.出色的3.吝啬的
1.mean做“平均的，介于中间的”意思时，后面只能接名词，相当于average, middle。如the mean temperature平均气温。
2.mean还意为coatedvery good and skilful熟练的，出色的，注意这个时候是褒义词，不要理解错误了。如He's a mean tennis player. 他是一名出色的网球选手。
3.mean的另一个常见意思就是not willing to give or share things, especially money吝啬的，小气的，相当于stingy，还可以联想到“守财奴”的英文是mir。如She’s very mean with her money.她花钱十分吝啬。
Parents worry more about bullying than anything el家长最担心的就是校园欺凌
这句话用到比较级表示最高级，字面结构是比较级（more…than…），实际含义却是最高级（担心校园欺凌超过其他所有事情——也就是最担心校园欺凌了）
类似的比较级表示最高级含义的句型还有：
1.否定句中用比较级：
雅思1对1
①How beautiful she sings! I've never heard a better voice.= She has the best voice I've ever heard.她唱得多好啊!这是我听到的最美的歌喉.
②I have never read a more interesting novel.= It is the most interesting novel I've ever read.这是我读过的最有趣的小说.
2.比较级 + than + anything/ anyone el
mdb
①George did more work than anyone el.乔治干活最多.
②Tom cared more for money than for anything el 汤姆最喜欢钱.
3.比较级 + than + the other + 复数名词/ + any other + 单数名词/ + any of the other + 复数名词
①She goes to school earlier than the other girls.她比其他女孩早上学.
②He works harder than any other student.她学习最用功.
③China is larger than any of the other countries in Asia.中国是亚洲最大的国家
4.在比较句型中使用 "no", "nobody", "nothing" 等词.
①like nothing better than swimming.我最喜欢游泳.
②Nobody can do the work better than he did.这项工作他做得最出色.
③No other building is as grand as the new hotel.新建的宾馆是当地最豪华的.
往往的意思
Around the world,schools and governments are converging on ways of tackling it世界各地学校和政府的处理方式都不谋而合
这里要注意converge这个动词，它是个不及物动词，除了表示“（河流、路等）汇聚、汇合”这种具体意思外，还表示“ (不同的思想、社会等)趋同，趋于一致，融合”的抽象含义，也就是标题中的用法。
比如说，世界各地政府都认识到环保的重要性。
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Views of governments across the world are converging that environmental protection is our overriding concern.
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第一段精读
concerning
①中英文翻译公司“THEY forced my ten-year-old son to wear ud toilet paper on his head,” complained a mother in Beijing on WeChat, a Chine social-media site, in 2016.② Her post soon went viral. ③It touched a nerve in a country where school bullying has traditionally been en as a rite of passage.④ Her son’s school, one of the best in Beijing, dismisd the brouhaha as “harmless mischief between kids”. ⑤But a spate of reports about even more vicious acts of bullying at other schools soon followed.
its ok
结构梳理：
这段用了一个真实事例来折射中国校园欺凌的状况。①-②是事情经过，③是该事件的影响，④是该事件的处理方式，⑤进行了转折，指出更为严峻的现实。
文章梳理：
①“THEY forced my ten-year-old son to wear ud toilet paper on his head,” complained a mother in Beijing on WeChat, a Chine social-media site, in 2016.“他们强迫我十岁的
孩子把用过的厕纸放在头上。”2016年一位北京的母亲在中国社交网站微信上抱怨道。
