and we're all dear friends;

而家长和老师都是很好的朋友
even the people that you're not dear friends with you got along with fine.

即使不是很好的朋友也交往得不错
But remember what I said about the role of the school.

但记住我说过学校的地位
The school represented,

学校代表着法国
from the outside, france looking into the village, in principle,

是村子与外面世界的联系原则上
teaching French, providing opportunities for people to get educated,

学校教授法语提供教育机会
get a job in the post office or the train station

让人们能在邮局或者火车站
or in a department store in Paris,

或者在百货商场找到工作
Avignon, Toulouse or wherever.

不论是在巴黎阿维尼翁或图卢兹
And one day we were convoked by the mayor,

有一天市长把我们召集起来
and the mayor then wasn't a friend of ours,

那时候的市长不是我们的朋友
just somebody we knew, and he had a sash on,

我们只是认识他他戴着他市长的饰带