The 1,600-pupil Bohunt school in Liphook — one of our top comprehensives, in a prosperous commuter village — has embarked on a bold and radical experiment. It has invited five teachers from leading schools in China to teach 50 of its year nine pupils, aged 13 and 14, for four weeks。

位于利普胡克的博航特中学拥有1600名学生，是英国顶尖的综合学校之一，坐落于地段繁华人来人往的村庄，该中学启动了一项大胆又激进的实验：邀请了五位来自中国重点学校的老师来教50名13-14岁的九年级学生，为期四周。

Why? Simple. British students lag three years behind their Asian counterparts in academic achievement. In maths, they trail behind most of Europe, too。

为什么要这样做?原因很简单。英国学生在学业成绩上和亚洲学生相比已经落后三年了，在数学上，他们也落后于欧洲大部分国家。

Keenly aware of this, and conscious that its pupils will be competing with the Chinese for jobs in a global market, the school set out to test how its students would fare under the rigour, long hours and rigid discipline of the Chinese education system。

他们不仅强烈意识到这一点，还意识到他们的学生将来要和中国学生在国际市场上竞争工作，于是这所学校打算测试一下它的学生会如何面对中国教育方法长时间的严格学习，及对纪律的严格要求。

The answer, it seems, is abysmally。

答案似乎不太妙。