Anthony Charles Blair
安东尼•查尔斯•林顿•布莱尔

Part One

【词汇扫描】
board at 进入（寄宿学校）就读
appoint 任命

【逐句对照】
The family returned to Britain in the late 1950s,
living for a time with Hazel Blair's mother
at her home in Stepps, near Glasgow.
He spent the remainder of his childhood in Durham, England,
his father being by then a lecturer at Durham University.
After attending Durham's Chorister School
Blair boarded at Fettes College,
a famous independent school in Edinburgh,
where he met Charlie Falconer
(a pupil at the rival Edinburgh Academy),
whom he later appointed Lord Chancellor.

【多学一点】
board 木板 / 上（船，飞机）
The passengers boarded the plane at 9 a.m.
board 寄宿
boarding school 寄宿学校
appoint 委任，任命
They appointed him to be manager in the company.
appoint 约定，指定
The time appointed for the meeting was ten o'clock.
appointment 约会
date

Part Two

【词汇扫描】
impress 使印象深刻
see the back of someone 摆脱某人

【逐句对照】
He reportedly modelled himself on Mick Jagger,
and is said to have enjoyed a reputation
as a conspicuously "cool" young man among his fellow pupils.
His teachers, however, were less impressed by his behaviour:
his biographer John Rentoul reported that
"All the teachers I spoke to...
said he was a complete pain in the backside,
and they were very glad to see the back of him."

【多学一点】
impress 留下印象
be impressed by 为…留下印象
I was very impressed by his story.
impress on sb. sth.
My father impressed on me the importance of hard work.
see the back of someone

【故事原文】
The family returned to Britain in the late 1950s,
living for a time with Hazel Blair's mother
at her home in Stepps, near Glasgow.
He spent the remainder of his childhood in Durham, England,
his father being by then a lecturer at Durham University.
After attending Durham's Chorister School
Blair boarded at Fettes College,
a famous independent school in Edinburgh,
where he met Charlie Falconer
(a pupil at the rival Edinburgh Academy),
whom he later appointed Lord Chancellor.
He reportedly modelled himself on Mick Jagger,
and is said to have enjoyed a reputation
as a conspicuously "cool" young man among his fellow pupils.
His teachers, however, were less impressed by his behaviour:
his biographer John Rentoul reported that
"All the teachers I spoke to...
said he was a complete pain in the backside,
and they were very glad to see the back of him."