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A primary schoolteacher's conversation with the mother of one of her students has gone viral because of the topics they discussed. Snapshots of the WeChat interaction show the mother complaining that it is too early for the teacher to be discussing pregnancy and anatomical differences between boys and girls to a class of 9-year-olds; she even said she would raise the issue with the headmaster.
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it is too early for the teacher to be discussing pregnancy and anatomical differences between boys and girls to a class of 9-year-olds
需要調整或修改的地方有兩處:
(1)discussing pregnancy and anatomical differences between boys and girls
我們都知道,discuss的用法是discuss sth或者discuss sth with sb。這個用法跟第二點相關。
先講pregnancy and anatomical differences between boys and girls。這個地方很容易把pregnancy and anatomical differences連在一起讀,其實卻是pregnancy和anatomical differences between boys and girls兩件事情。要區分清楚也簡單,anatomical前面加個定冠詞the。
discussing pregnancy and the anatomical differences between boys and girls
(2)to a class of 9-year-olds
上面講到了discuss的用法是discuss sth或者discuss sth with sb。所以,這兒要用,最好把to改為with。
it is too early for the teacher to be discussing pregnancy and the anatomical differences between boys and girls with a class of 9-year-olds
另外,時態還是用一般式比較合適:to be discussing改為discuss。
it is too early for the teacher to discuss pregnancy and the anatomical differences between boys and girls with a class of 9-year-olds
回到標題,供參考:talk to/with sb about sth
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