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equn 发表于 2004-7-15 00:00:00

A question of English Language Using

In China, 中学 is often translated into "Middle School". Another translation is "Senior High School" and "Junior High School" stand for "初中" and "高中". Which one is correct or will be easier understood by English-speakings? Thanks!

phoen8x 发表于 2004-7-15 00:00:00

Haha, good question. Now the fact is here in Australia, I think US/UK are the same, we call it high school.
This is to do with how the education system is run. In Australia we are garanteed 12 years of education so everyone can go to year 12 assuming they don't drop out or fail subjects consistantly. So there is no real reason to separate "middle school" and "senior high school" out.
Having said that, it is also true that in US there are junior and senior high school. And in Australia they also exist to a lesser extent in the cathlic/private school system.

So middle school is definitely a no-no. I would say junior/senior high school is more commonly used here.

Lightalt 发表于 2004-7-15 00:00:00

…………
虽然是English Zone
但是还是用中文好吧~看的偶累死了~~

phoen8x 发表于 2004-7-15 00:00:00

学习才有进步啊！

jasonccnu 发表于 2004-9-4 00:00:00

thanks very much!
it's a good problem.I see now.

JPU风色 发表于 2004-11-26 22:02:32

Hehe,knowledge

equn 发表于 2004-11-26 23:17:44

Anyone know whether "sports meeting" is chinglish or pure english?

I learnt the word sports meeting in my junior school textbook stands for 运动会 in chinese. But i think that meeting is a kind of .. like people sit around a desk and discuss about things..

rocketcn 发表于 2004-12-26 14:04:08

sports meeting,,, sounds like chinese english. never saw this before.

rocketcn 发表于 2004-12-26 14:04:56

in singapore, it's called secondary school, and junior college-----初中，高中。

wing_235 发表于 2005-1-28 00:29:04

we called athletic carnival in Australia... not sport meeting or anythin'....

fg32152128 发表于 2005-2-19 21:35:03

Maybe sports meeting is invented by Chinease:-)

阿pp 发表于 2005-2-27 18:50:52

secondary school
and
junior & senior school
are both ok

cactus 发表于 2005-3-21 09:46:30

then how about gymkhana? is it the same meaning of athletic carnival or else?

DF3-CQB 发表于 2005-4-5 03:23:50

in Canada, here has 12 levels or 13 levels before someone enrolled by university.
1-6 =primary school
7-12= secondary school
13=preparatory (如果成绩好可以不读直接进大学)

老吴 发表于 2008-7-25 22:45:32

In my opinion,secondary school or middle school mean 初中
high school and junior college(usually be used in singapore) mean 高中

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