【#逐字學英文國際日報】76：fulfill, unfulfilled

Paul Klee

Unerfülltes, 1930 unfulfilled

watercolor and pen and black ink on linen laid down on painted card

40.6 x 47.6 cm

PUBLIC SCHOOLS START TO MIMIC CHARTERS
Collaborations popping up across the country between charter and traditional public schools show promise that charter schools could fulfill their original purpose of becoming research-and-development hothouses for public education, champions of charters say. But both supporters and skeptics of charter schools agree that so far the cooperative efforts are not widespread nor are most of them very deep. The U.S. Department of Education spent $6.7 million in fiscal 2009 on grants to states for charters to share what they've learned with other schools. It is now conducting a feasibility study on ways to support the spread of promising charter school practices, said Scott D. Pearson, the department's acting director of the charter schools program. The article is in Education Week.

From Instagram: US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk after laying wreaths at the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on May 27th 2016. Obama is the only US president to visit the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, bringing global attention both to survivors and to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons

fulfill

verb [ T ]

US 

 /fʊlˈfɪl/

fulfill verb [T] (MAKE HAPPEN)

 

to do something as promised or intended, or to satisfy your hopes or expectations:

She said the president had failed to fulfill his campaign promises.

He stayed an extra semester to fulfill his graduation requirements.

At the age of 45, she finally fulfilled her ambition to run a marathon.

fulfill verb [T] (DEVELOP)

 

to succeed in developing abilities or qualities to their fullest degree:

Her immediate goal was to complete her novel, but her long-term goal was to fulfill her potential as a writer.

(Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary からの fulfill の定義 © Cambridge University Press)