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A：Which school is your children in?
你的小孩现在在哪儿上学?
B：She is now in a private school.
她在一家私立学校上学。
A：Oh, it costs too much. It's more expensive than the pulic school.
喔，那收费很高。比公立学校贵得多。
B：It's idea of my husband. He is always banging the drum for better schools.
这是我丈夫的主意。他总是一味鼓吹好学校，好教育。
A：But the private school amount to better schools.
可是私立学校并不就是等于好学校。
注释:
Beat the drums for中的介词for可以用作against，即：beat the drums against，后面可以接something，也可以接somebody。
Eg. They beat the drums against the new policy.
他们竭力反对新政策。
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