what they try to teach their kids. 5.13

作为运动员，我们不能取代父母，但是我们能协助他们去强化他们努力教给孩子们的那些思想。

Parents just have to make sure they don’t take it too far. Sometimes they put us on a pedestal that feels more like a tightrope---so narrow that we’re bound to fall off eventually. 6.1 父母亲一定不能做得太过火。他们有时把我们奉若神明，使我们感到是在走钢索----在这么细的钢索上我们最终必定会摔下来。

It’s a great feeling to think you’re small part of the reason that a kid decided to give school another try instead of dropping out or that a kid had the strength to walk away when someone offered him drugs. 8.2

想到某个孩子决定在事业上再做一番尝试而不是辍学，或者碰到有人向他兜售毒品时，能从毒贩子身边走开，而这其中也有你的一小部分功劳时，那种感觉好极了。

After-class reading passages

on the surface 2.2/ gloriously 2.4/ legitimately 2.6/ courageous 2.6/ thrilling 2.7/ disorderly 2.8/ arena 2.9/ paradox 3.1/ and the like 2.3/ transform 2.5/ unremarkable 2.6/ competitive 2.8/ on top of this 2.12/ be characterized by 2.15/ privilege 2.16/ perpetually 4.3/ conceited 4.11/ artificially 5.5/ shield...from... 5.6/ eligibility 5.11/ attorney 5.13/ given