This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the'happy few' during the past centuries.
這說明,經(jīng)過了多么漫長的時間之后,我們才認(rèn)識到,有必要確保我們的孩子享有多少個世紀(jì)以來由‘少數(shù)幸運者’所積累起來的知識。