暑期学校，加强班，自学，在大学里做研究...

Q：大家好，我是你们的朋友晴川。终于今天，我们要来说说学习这个事儿了。毕竟学生要学习，虽然在暑假。

L： Hi everyone. I am Lindsay, nice to meet you all here again. Well, study is mandatory (必须的）, even if you don’t like it. I understand. In fact, I’d like using summer to explore or catch up with something.

Q: Explore 是探索的意思，一般用来指未曾涉足的领域. 而Catch up 是跟上的意思，就是说进展不尽如意，要赶上去的意思。

L：I prepared a long list of my reading materials before school was over. There are so many good books that I always feel I don’t have enough time to read. My math is also not very good. I plan to do some extra exercises to practice. Hopefully next school year I can show some improvement. I also want to practice my drawing（画画，更多指线条） and painting（画画，颜色涂刷） skills. It needs silence and a longer time to concentrate, and summer is a good opportunity for that.

Q: Reading is perhaps the single most important thing in school. Before summer starts, teachers would list reading recommendations（推荐）. Local library sometimes would keep teacher’s reading list for kids to use. 大家会从中选择, 借书，或者下载到电子书上方便旅行时候带走。一个暑假下来，读上十几本书是很常见的。自己不够擅长的地方暑假也可以在家补习或者去补习学校上课加强练习。有些兴趣爱好上学时间来不及安排尝试，也可以在暑假学起来。

L：Our school district （校区，学校管理以居民所在的镇为单位包括12年的公立学校和一年的学前）provides a summer school（夏校）. I know many of my friends signed up（报名） for the summer school programs. But I would rather （宁愿）study at home by myself, with help from my parents. I like to manage my own time and progress.

Q: 是的，暑假学校是公立学校提供的补习场所；其它还有各种门类的加强班父母可以付费选择，在这样的培训班有些是为标准化考试有些是为竞赛开设，作为学校教育的补充或者提升。当然互联网也提供了很多资源，Lindsay 就可以利用网络资源宁可自己练习。

L：Those high school kids probably will find some chances to do their research（研究） in college.

Q: 高中生有能力和要求的，还会申请附近大学提供给高中生的学习研究机会，利用暑假尝试大学的研究环境, 说不定会发现有意义的课题和发自内心的爱好。

L：I also like foreign languages. I study Italian 意大利语 and Japanese 日语, along with French法语 in summer.

Q: Wow, someday you would be an international traveler using all languages you grasp.

L: Yes, that’s a skill I’d like to have.

暑假就是不断尝试新领域放飞梦想的好机会啊。难怪新学期到来的时候，常常孩子们会仿佛H焕然一新，个子高了，眼界开了，知识也丰富了，老师们常常感慨，两个月不见，又大了！