American school buses these days really have come a long way from those traditional big yellow buses from back when we were in primary school…at least in
Shanghai they have.?
比起以前我們小時(shí)候的校車（在美國(guó)老電影中的黃色大巴士），現(xiàn)在的美國(guó)校車真的有了很大的改進(jìn)。至少在上海的美國(guó)學(xué)校也可以看見這樣的校車。

We have a student who attends Shanghai American School. They really use state-of-the-art school buses. When he gets on the bus, he swipes his student ID across the card reader and his parents at home can log on a website that tracks the location of the bus. Once he arrives at school, his parents will be alerted, and they can move on with their busy day, assured their son is safe at school. If there happens to be an incident on the way to school, parents are alerted through text messages and phone calls explaining what has happened. If it’s raining really hard that day, parents are also informed that their child arrived late to school due to the road conditions.
我們有個(gè)在上海美國(guó)學(xué)校的學(xué)生。他提及，目前他的學(xué)校使用的是最先進(jìn)的校車。上車先刷學(xué)生的ID卡，這樣他們的父母就可以通過(guò)登錄網(wǎng)站來(lái)實(shí)時(shí)監(jiān)控汽車的路線。一旦學(xué)生安全抵達(dá)學(xué)校，系統(tǒng)會(huì)自動(dòng)給家長(zhǎng)提醒，這樣家長(zhǎng)就可以放心地去工作了。如果途中碰到意外，家長(zhǎng)則會(huì)收到系統(tǒng)的系統(tǒng)短信，或者校方的解釋電話。比如，如果當(dāng)天下大雨導(dǎo)致沒有正點(diǎn)抵達(dá)學(xué)校，家長(zhǎng)們會(huì)收到提醒短信：因交通原因，我們晚點(diǎn)了

We can tell that the American school not only invests heavily on providing the best hardware for its students, but also follows up with excellent service and strong sense of responsibility! Time and money well spent!
我們不難看出，美國(guó)學(xué)校的經(jīng)營(yíng)理念是，不但要購(gòu)買最好的校車，更要提供人性化的服務(wù)和一顆強(qiáng)烈的責(zé)任心。對(duì)于學(xué)生和家長(zhǎng)來(lái)說(shuō)，也算是一分價(jià)錢一分貨咯！

? Words and Expressions:

1、come a long way
v. 有很大進(jìn)步, 有很大改進(jìn)

2、state-of-the-art
adj. 最新式的, 使用了最先進(jìn)技術(shù)的, 頂尖水準(zhǔn)的

3、follow up
vi. 跟進(jìn), 采取措施?

以上內(nèi)容來(lái)自滬江部落【地道美語(yǔ)向前沖】>>