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joeqiao小刀UID: 2821259

at the same time,howver,individual states and communities should have some freedom to augment any such curriculum as they see fit;otherwise, a nation's educational sytem might defeat its own purpose in the long term.
这是北美范文issue 5里的一段话，对于红色的这部分不太理解，怎么一个国家的教育系统从长远来看会打败它自己的目标啊

Rose@MayUID: 2797727

你看他下面怎么论证的呗

yogurt4UID: 198389

翻译成中文就是 长远来看教育不能达到当初（人们设想教育应该达到）的目标。

fchenyanUID: 2804020

还是用英语解释英语比较容易理解，我觉得那个红色部分的句子写得很好
韦氏告诉我们
defeat:
2defeat 2    n.

Function:	noun
Date:	1590

1 : frustration by nullification or by prevention of success <the bill suffered defeat in the Senate>
2 obsolete : DESTRUCTION
3 a : an overthrow especially of an army in battle b : the loss of a contest