本文音频及原文摘自杂志The Economist《经济学人》2016年第9期，Britain版块。

Schools and careers

Feb 27th 2016

“Education should not be about wealth,” boomed Tony Blair[1] in 1996. Two decades later, it still is. Private schools teach 7% of Britain’s pupils, but account for half the country’s senior civil servants[2], cabinet ministers[3] and leading journalists. Seven in ten generals and judges went to independent schools[4], according to the Sutton Trust[5], a charity. In some jobs the proportion has even increased. A decade ago, half Britain’s senior doctors[6] were privately educated; today the figure is 61%. The share has risen in the law, too. Even pop stars are more likely than average to have a posh education. And what of the fat cats[7] leading FTSE[8] firms and the plutocrats in Parliament? They, it turns out, are among the least privileged of the lot: only one in three went private.

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[2]高级公务员

[3]大臣;阁僚

[4]独立学校;私立学校

[5]萨顿信托基金会

[6]高级医师

[7]fat cat

someone who has a lot of ,  someone in of a  who has the  to   own 

大亨；阔佬；（尤指公司的）老板The      who  themselves  .报告批评董事大亨们为自己大幅提薪。  /有财有势的老板／董事

[8]富时集团(FTSE Group)是英国提供股市指数及相关数据服务公司。富时100指数(FTSE 100 Index)是在伦敦证券交易所上市的最大的一百家公司的股票指数。该指数是英国经济的晴雨表，也是欧洲最重要的股票指数之一。

▷posh [pɒʃ]

(of  and things)  and of high 高档的，一流的He  her to some really posh .他带她去了一些真正高档的饭店。

(of  and  ) from a high  （人或口音）上流社会的；谈吐高雅的A woman with a very posh   for him .一位谈吐高雅的女士早些时候给他打了个电话。

▷plutocrat ['pluːtəkræt]

someone who   because they are 

富豪，财阀The  has  been  by plutocrats.该国长期以来一直受财阀统治。

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