parochial
parochial 英 [pəˈrəʊkiəl] 美 [pəˈroʊkiəl]
adj. 教区的;狭小的;地方范围的
名词复数:parochials
- If an issue or a matter is parochial, it is trivial or only concerns a local area. Likewise, a person with a parochial mentality is narrow-minded, or not open to new ideas.
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- adj. 教区的;狭小的;地方范围的
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1. And the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the use of vouchers in parochial schools in Milwaukee.
威斯康星最高法院也赞同密尔沃基教区学校使用教育券。
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2. The tendency of kids to split up spontaneously into subgroups also explains the uneven success rate of programs that put children from disadvantaged homes into private or parochial schools.
孩子有自发地分裂形成小团体的趋势,这也说明了将贫穷家庭孩子放入私人或教会学校的计划为什么成功率参差不齐。
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3. The decision is the fourth in recent months to bar the use of vouchers in parochial schools, and voucher opponents--mainly teachers' unions and liberal interest groups--see it as a major victory.
这一裁决是最近几个月来第四起禁止在教区学校使用教育券的裁决,而反对教育券的人---主要是教师工会和自由主义利益团体---则把它视为一场重大胜利。
- parochial (adj.) late 14c., "pertaining to a parish," from Anglo-French parochiel (late 13c.), from Old French parochial, from Late Latin parochialis "of a parish" (c. 600), from parochia (see parish).
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