Every Tuesday and Friday evening sees Miss Li,my neighbor and a secretary in a company rush home after a hard day’s work,gulp down her meals and then hurry out to catch the bus for her English class. Miss Li’s case is not unique,and now more and more city adults spend their leisure time trying to improve themselves at school or college.
每周二和周五晚上，我的邻居和一家公司的秘书李小姐在辛苦工作了一天后赶回家，狼吞虎咽地吃完饭，然后匆匆赶去赶公交车上英语课。李小姐的情况并不是唯一的，现在越来越多的城市成年人利用闲暇时间在学校或大学里努力提高自己。
There are a number of reasons for people to go back for their education. Some people,like Miss Li,are doing it to acquire another degree or diploma to impress the society. To them more knowledge,or rather,more credentials means more opportunities for better jobs and quicker promotion.
的人有很多理由回去接受教育。有些人，像李小姐，这样做是为了获得另一个学位或文凭，以打动社会。对他们来说，更多的知识，或者更确切地说，更多的证书意味着更好的工作和更快的晋升机会。
Other people,especially those who are laid off or out of employment go to vocational school to prepare to return to the job market. They are eager for new skills so that they can be qualified for the jobs in retail trade,administration,education and other service categories to which they are strange because most of them were blue-collar workers in the factory.
的人，特别是那些下岗或失业的人，去职业学校准备重返就业市场。他们渴望获得新的技能，以便能够胜任零售业、行政管理、教育和其他服务行业的工作，因为他们大多是工厂里的蓝领工人，所以对这些行业感到陌生。还有
There are also people who come to take such courses as Chinese traditional medicine,painting,calligraphy and photography. As their working weeks decline people begin to have time to fulfill their old dream of their heart’s desire.
的人来这里学习中医、绘画等课程，书法和摄影。随着工作周的减少，人们开始有时间去实现心中的梦想。
Out of necessity or out of interest,people go back to school for the common goal——to improve themselves,and this boom in adult education,in turn,helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
的人是出于需要或兴趣，他们回到学校是为了共同的目标来提高自己，而成人教育的繁荣反过来又有助于提高整个国家的智力水平。