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1 .Good morning and thank you for coming here today. I’d like to bring you up to date with changes in the school that will affect your children.
早上好，感谢你今天来这里。我想给你介绍一下学校里会影响你孩子的变化。
2 .As you know, the school buildings date from various times: some from the 1970s, some from the last five years, and of course Dartfield House is over a century old.
正如你所知，学校的建筑可以追溯到各个时期:有些是70年代的，有些是最近五年的，当然达特菲尔德大楼也有一个多世纪的历史了。
3 .It was commissioned by a businessman, Neville Richards, and intended as his family home, but he died before it was completed. His heir chose to sell it to the local council, who turned it into offices.
它是由一位名叫内维尔理查兹的商人委托建造的，打算作为他的家庭住宅，但在建成之前他就去世了。他的继承人选择把它卖给当地议会，后者把它变成了办公室。
4 .A later plan to convert it into a tourist information centre didn’t come about, through lack of money, and instead it formed the nucleus of this school when it opened 40 years ago.
后来，由于缺乏资金，将其改建为旅游信息中心的计划没有实现，相反，它在40年前开业时成为了这所学校的核心。
5 .The school has grown as the local population has increased, and I can now give you some news about the lower school site, which is separated from the main site by a road.
随着当地人口的增加，学校也在发展壮大，我现在可以给你一些关于下校址的消息，它和主校址有一条路之隔。
6 .Planning permission has been granted for development of both sites. The lower school will move to new buildings that will be constructed on the main site.
开发两块场地的规划许可已经被授权了。下部学校将搬到将在主工地上建造的新建筑。
7 .Developers will construct houses on the existing lower school site. Work on the new school buildings should start within the next few months.
开发商将在现有的下校址上建造房屋。新建校舍的工作应该在未来几个月内开始。
8 .A more imminent change concerns the catering facilities and the canteen.
更迫在眉睫的变化涉及餐饮设施和食堂。
9 .The canteen is always very busy throughout the lunch period – in fact it’s often full to capacity, because a lot of our pupils like the food that’s on offer there. But there’s only one serving point, so most pupils have to wait a considerable time to be served.
食堂在整个午餐时间总是很忙——事实上经常爆满，因为我们很多学生都喜欢那里提供的食物。但是只有一个服务点，所以大多数学生要等相当长的时间才能被服务。
10 .This is obviously unsatisfactory, as they may have hardly finished their lunch before afternoon lessons start. So we’ve had a new Food Hall built, and this will come into use next week.
这显然是不令人满意的，因为，他们可能很难在下午课程开始前吃完午饭。所以我们新建了一个美食厅，下周开始使用。
11 .It’ll have several serving areas, and I’ll give you more details about those in a minute, but one thing we ask you to do, to help in the smooth running of the Food Hall, is to discuss with your children each morning which type of food they want to eat that day, so they can go straight to the relevant serving point.
它会有几个服务区，我一会儿会告诉你更多关于那些的细节，但是我们要求你做的一件事，为了帮助美食厅的顺利运行，是每天早上和你的孩子讨论他们当天想吃哪种食物，这样他们就可以直接去相关的服务点。
12 .There won’t be any junk food – everything on offer will be healthy – and there’s no change to the current system of paying for lunches by topping up your child’s electronic payment card online.
不会有任何垃圾食品——提供的一切都是健康的——目前通过在网上给孩子的电子支付卡充值来支付午餐费用的制度也没有变化。
13 .You may be wondering what will happen to the old canteen. We’ll still have tables and chairs in there, and pupils can eat food from the Food Hall or lunch they’ve brought from home.
你可能在想老食堂接下来会怎么样。我们在里面仍然会有桌子和椅子，学生可以享用（从）美食厅（购买）的食物或从家里带来的午餐。
14 .Eventually we may use part of the canteen for storage, but first we’ll see how many pupils go in there at lunchtime.
最终我们可能会用食堂的一部分来存放，但首先我们要看看午餐时间有多少学生进去。
15 .OK, back to the serving points in the Food Hall, which will all have side dishes, desserts and drinks on sale, as well as main courses.
好的，继续介绍美食厅的服务点，那里都有小菜、甜点和饮料出售，还有主菜。
16 .One serving point we call World Adventures. This will serve a different country’s cuisine each day, maybe Chinese one day and Lebanese the next.
一个我们称作环球历险记的服务点。这将每天提供不同国家的美食，也许今天是中国的，明天是黎巴嫩的。
17 .The menus will be planned for a week at a time, so pupils will know what’s going to be available the whole of that week.
菜单将一次计划一周，这样学生们就会知道那一周都有什么可吃的。
18 .Street Life is also international, with food from three particular cultures.
街头生活也是国际化的，有三种特殊文化的食物。
19 .We’ll ask pupils to make suggestions, so perhaps sometimes there’ll be food from Thailand, Ethiopia and Mexico, and then one of them will be replaced by Jamaican food for a week or two.
我们会让小学生提出建议，所以可能有时会有泰国、埃塞俄比亚和墨西哥的食物，然后其中一种食物会被牙买加食物替代一两周。
20 .The Speedy Italian serving point will cater particularly for the many pupils who don’t eat meat or fish: they can be sure that all the food served there is suitable for them. There’ll be plenty of variety, so they shouldn’t get bored with the food.
意大利快速服务点将特别为不吃肉和鱼的许多学生提供服务:他们可以确保那里提供的所有食物都适合自己。会有丰富的品种，所以他们不应该对食物感到厌烦。
21 .OK, that’s all on the new Food Hall. Now after-school lessons.
好的，这些都在新的美食厅里。现在是放学后的课程（介绍）。
22 .These are very popular with pupils, particularly swimming – in fact there’s a waiting list for lessons.
这些（课）很受学生欢迎，尤其是游泳课——事实上，上课都有候补名单。
23 .Cycling is another favourite, and I’m delighted that dozens of pupils make use of the chance to learn to ride in off-road conditions. It means that more and more cycle to and from school every day.
骑自行车是另一个最受欢迎的项目，我很高兴有几十个学生利用这个机会学习在越野条件下骑车。这意味着每天往返学校的自行车越来越多。
24 .As you know, we have a well-equipped performance centre, and we’re going to start drama classes in there, too.
如你所知，我们有一个设备齐全的表演中心，我们也要在那里开设戏剧课。
25 .Pupils will be able to join in just for fun or work up to taking part in a play – we hope to put on at least one a year.
学生们将可以仅仅为了好玩而加入进来，或者为了参加一场戏剧而努力——我们希望每年至少上演一场。
26 .We already teach a number of pupils to use the sound and lighting systems in the centre. And a former pupil has given a magnificent grand piano to the school, so a few pupils will be able to learn at the school instead of going to the local college, as many of them do at the moment.
我们已经教了一些学生使用中心的音响和灯光系统。而且一个以前的学生给学校赠送了一架华丽的大钢琴，所以有几个学生将可以在学校学习，而不是去当地的大学，就像他们现在很多人做的那样。