大学英语精读预备级课文翻译(7)

第三单元儿童教育

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A teacher’s praise and encourage may influence a child greatly, Let’s fin d out how the teacher in this story helped her student…

教师的赞扬和鼓励可能会对一个孩子产生重大影响。让我们看看这个故事中的教师是如何帮助学生的。

We’re All Here to Learn

我们都是来这儿学习的

“Sixteen,” I said. I have forgotten the math question my second? grade teacher, Joyce Cooper, asked that day, but I will never forget my answer. As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class at Smallwood Elementary School in Norfolk, Va, started laughing. I felt like the stupidest person in the world.

我说：“16。”我已经不记得我二年级老师乔伊斯·库珀那天问的是什么算术问题，可我永远不会忘记我的回答。那数字一脱口而出，弗吉尼亚州诺福克市斯莫尔伍德小学的全班同学就开始大笑。我觉得我是世界上最愚蠢的人。

Mrs. Cooper?fixed?them with a severe look. Then she said, “We’re all here to learn.”

乔伊斯·库珀夫人用严厉的目光凝视着他们，然后说：“我们全都是为了学习而来这儿的。”

Another time, Mrs. Cooper asked us to write a report about what we hoped to do with our lives. I wrote, “I want to be a teacher like Mrs. Cooper.”

还有一次，库珀夫人要我们写一篇关于我们希望今后做什么的作文。我写道：“我要成为像库珀夫人那样的教师。”

She wrote on my report, “You would make an outstanding teacher because you are?determined and you try hard.” I was to carry those words in my heart for the next 27 years.

她在我的作业上写道：“你会成为一个杰出的教师，因为你有决心并且非常努力。”之后的27年里，我心中一直牢牢铭记着她的这些话。

After I graduated from high school in 1976, I married a wonderful man, Ben, a?mechanic. Before long, Latonya was born.

1976年我从中学毕业后，跟一个叫本的出色的男人结了婚。他是个机械师。不久，我