1. But this was not always the case; before it was legally required for all children to attend school until a certain age, it was widely accepted that some were just not equipped by nature to pursue this kind of education.

【譯文】但是情況并不總是如此。在法律要求所有兒童在一定年齡之前必須上學(xué)，人們普遍認(rèn)為有些兒童天生就不適合接受這種教育。

【析句】全句由兩個(gè)分句組成，前后用分號(hào)隔開(kāi)。在第二個(gè)分句的主句中，it是形式主語(yǔ)，真正的主語(yǔ)是some were just not equipped by nature to pursue this kind of education。it was widely accepted意為"人們普遍認(rèn)為"。

【講詞】pursue意為“追趕；追蹤；追擊；繼續(xù)；從事”。She pursued the study of English for five years.（她堅(jiān)持學(xué)了五年英語(yǔ)。）The ship continued to pursue a northern course.（船只繼續(xù)向北航行。

attend意為“出席，參加；照顧；注意；伴隨”。The speech was attended with wild applause.（聽(tīng)眾對(duì)演講報(bào)以熱烈的掌聲。）We'll attend to that problem later.（我們稍后會(huì)關(guān)注那個(gè)問(wèn)題。）

2. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.

【譯文】此外，在我們這么大的一個(gè)國(guó)家里，經(jīng)濟(jì)延展到這么多的州，涉及這么多的國(guó)際公司，因而要培養(yǎng)出所需數(shù)量的各類(lèi)專(zhuān)業(yè)人員是不太可能的。

【析句】這里的主語(yǔ)this指的是前面所說(shuō)的professional training，后面不定式短語(yǔ)中動(dòng)詞produce的賓語(yǔ)是professional，前面的成分是修飾這個(gè)詞的短語(yǔ)，接著是地點(diǎn)狀語(yǔ)，其中country帶了兩個(gè)修飾成分，前一個(gè)是形容詞性的短語(yǔ)as large as ours，后一個(gè)是where引導(dǎo)的定語(yǔ)從句，這個(gè)從句的主語(yǔ)the economy有兩個(gè)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞：is和involves，后面都用了相似的結(jié)構(gòu)so many，表示強(qiáng)調(diào)

【講詞】needed意為"所需的"。Select this link to print a checklist of the documents needed.（選擇這一鏈接，然后打印所需的文件。）另外，注意spread的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞與原形一樣。

spread除了表示"伸展；展開(kāi)；傳播"，也可表示"延伸；延長(zhǎng)"。This is a prescribed course which spreads over two semesters.（這是一門(mén)需要兩個(gè)學(xué)期才能學(xué)完的必修課。）注意spread的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞都是spread。