【美国提前择校一段】
If you lack the same certainty but clinching a slot before New Year's is appealing, consider other early admissions plans. Early action is a nonbinding alternative that allows you to apply by November 1 and hear back before the regular application deadline. Some highly selective schools require that you submit only one early action application--called single-choice early action--meaning you can't apply early elsewhere. Another option is to apply early to rolling admissions, where an application that arrives in the fall may stand out more than one that arrives with most of the others in January.

【我的翻译】如果你缺少别人那样的确定会成功（= certainty）的条件，只图在切盼的春节之前，把事情来个了结的话；那麽提早让学校核准的计划值得考虑。提早行动它是叫你自在的另类申请行动，此行动的机制给你时间，在十一月一日之前提出申请，在正规的申请截止之前，你就能听到回音。一些对学生高度精挑细选的学校，要求你递送的只有一件就是提早行动下的申请---称之为‘单选提早行动’---意思是：若你提早去别处申请是不被许可的（= can ，in here）。 这个另类的选择就是一切按表操课（= be + to-v = be schedualed to）对学校的核准名册，提早进行申请的动作（apply 为从属逻辑位阶，必需如此翻译和理解），若是这样作了，其揭晓的日子可要比任何一种的申请要较早些，就是跟其他的大部分的申请方式那样，得到明年的元月才有结果的那种。

我用了十几个，细部的注解，才算能掌握这一段英语的真正含义！我的结论：若我们按对英语的通解就是死路一条，我们搞不懂英语的最大的障碍就是‘在学校里的英语的知识’。


1.clinch = to settle a business or an agreement firmly
2. slot = a place or position
3. apply = to cause to have an effect on

4. a nonbinding alternative that allows you to apply by November 1and hear back ... = ..... that allows you to have an effect on you by November 1...
5. highly selective schools = schools which highly select its students
6. early action application = application in early action 由early action 所决定的application
7. submit = under + send = send oneself from under to the authoriety for the consideration of the one
8. certainty 的真正的意涵
9. apply = to + fold 它的真义，并非我们正在使用的通识。
10. can 也不能用我们现在的通识。
11. be + to -v = be schedualed to