1. This was the spot where I was receiving my education; and this was the sort of education; and I am perfectly satisfied that if I had not received such an education, or something very much like it -- that, if I had been brought up a milksop, 3 with a nursery-maid ever- lastingly at my heels, 4 I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, 5 as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities.
这是我过去接受教育的地方，接受的就是这种教育，对此我心满意足。如果我未曾接受过这种，或诸如此类的教育，如果我被养成一棵温室的弱苗，有个保姆老是跟在我的脚后跟，那么我今天就会是一个大傻瓜，无所事事，就像从温切斯特和西敏学校，或从被称作学院和大学的笨伯的巢穴里走出的那些无聊呆子中的任何一个一样。
2. Tell these chickenhearted dunces why you alone among them stand on the right side of the hall.
告诉这些胆小的笨蛋，为什么在他们当中只有你一个人站在大厅的右侧。
3. This sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
个人认为现在中小学8成以上的老师是误人子弟的。。。
4. The story of Victor makes you wonder how many geniuses we have wandering around acting like dunces because someone told them they weren't too bright.
维克托的故事会使你想到，在我们周围，不知有多少天才只因为别人说他们不太聪明就过着傻瓜一样碌碌无为的生活。
5. Spellchecks are turning us into a nation of dunces with a third of adults failing to reach the expected spelling ability of an 11 year-old child, a shock study reveals.
拼写检查功能正将英国变成一个傻子的国度。一个研究惊人地发现，该国三分之一的成年人拼写水平达不到11岁儿童的标准。
6. The defects of great men are the consolation of dunces.
伟人有缺点是愚人的安慰。
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1. Experts attribute children's changing from prodigies into dunces to parents'irrational teaching methods and their tendency to dote on their children.