大学时某天,我到学校附近超市买东西,碰巧遇见俩同班女生在里面逛。
One day in college, I went to school nearby supermarket to buy things, happened to see two girls in the same class inside the shopping.
到了上学的年纪,我的爸爸妈妈送我去学校,但是每天早上我到学校的时候就开始哭,他们要安抚我很久我才愿意走进教室。
When I was at the school age, my parents sent me to school. But I cried every morning when I arrived at school. They had to comfort me for a long time to bring me into classroom.
这样我就可以拥有某个新英格兰的小镇中的那些小白房子中的一所,那里会有一座阳台和一份薪水;并且当我到学校的时候哪里会有些渴望见到我的笑脸!
Then I could have one of those little white houses in some New England town, and there would be a sun porch and a salary; and when I got to school there would be these happy faces longing to see me!
在学校和工作中,我注意到人们有不同的工作习惯。
At school and at work, I have noticed that people have different kinds of work habits.
我的计划是在英国获得一年左右的经验后,到海外的一所国际学校工作。
The plan is to work at an international school overseas, after I get a year or so of experience in England.
当我终于到学校的时候,我已经上气不接下气了,却发现那天是星期六。
I was out of breath when I finally arrived at school, only to find that it was Saturday.
我认为应该不允许学生带手机到学校。
I don't think students should be allowed to bring mobile phones to school.
我只是注意到这样一个事实,这是学校的另一个项目,而且我想在此项目上取得好成绩。
I had only focused on the fact that it was another school project and one I wanted to get a good grade on.
你能告诉我你家到学校有多远吗?
Could you please tell me how far it is from your home to school?
拿到自行车后我骑了上去,七点半到学校。
好消息是,当我拿出我的玻璃容器时,我注意到更多的同学用他们自己的容器把自制的午餐带到学校!
Good news, when I took out my glass container, I noticed more of my classmates bring their home-made lunch in their own containers to school!
一切都归结到教育,这就是我为什么要用自己的钱办这个学校。
'It all comes to education, that's why I decided to use my money for this school.
空军基地任命我到锡镴丘兹大学去做报告,那是一所位于锡镴丘兹的一所语言学校。
The Air Force issued orders for me to report to Syracuse University, School of Language, in Syracuse, n.y..
一到公寓,我就打电话给学校的招生办公室,称自己要晚些报名,所以要求先取消入学。
Once home I called the school's Admissions Office and cancelled my enrollment, claiming I would re-enroll at a later date.
我戴着它到学校,在中间脱下来,把它放在书包里,再也没有回头。
I wore it to school, but took it off in the middle of the day, put it in my backpack and never looked back.
甚至在学校网站上,我也会被认出来,有时线到很晚。
Even on the school site, I could be marking online, live, maybe quite late in the evening.
十月的一个刮大风的日子,妈妈打电话到学校里告诉我外公死了。
Mom called me at school on a blustery October day to tell me Grandpa had died.
多年来,我从未意识到自己的传统新英格兰美国家庭教育和使得自己在学校显得与众不同之间的矛盾。
Growing up, I never perceived a contradiction between my classic New England American upbringing and the things that made me glaringly different from the other kids at school.
好吧,你看,学校里谁都没有你的消息,所以我开车到这里,我是有点跟着你从你家来到这里。
Okay, look, nobody at school had heard from you, so I drove out here, and I kinda followed you here from your house.
我渐渐意识到,制度化的学校教育不过是个用顺从来交换偏爱与优势的地方:老师叫坐哪就坐哪,老师说开口时才能开口,记住老师叫你记住的东西。
Institutionalized schooling, I gradually realized, is about obedience in exchange for favors and advantages: Sit where I tell you, speak when I allow it, memorize what I've told you to memorize.
最后,她意识到那是为了创造一个人物。“所有我在学校所学到的或是生活中所经历的都是非常有用的。”
Eventually, she realized that for creating a character, "whatever I learned in school or experience in life is very useful."
我只是希望她不是那么温柔和纵容,我希望她认识到,在某些重要方面,学校餐厅比图书馆有更高的认知要求。
I just wish she wasn't so soft and indulgent. I wish she recognized that in some important ways the school cafeteria is more intellectually demanding than the library.
我的第一个孩子在学校轻松入选官方定义的“天才”范畴,因此我没有注意到谈论孩子天赋之行为的普遍程度。
With my first child, who landed comfortably within the official 'talented and gifted' category at school, I was insensitive to how pervasive the talk of giftedness had become.
我的第一个孩子在学校轻松入选官方定义的“天才”范畴,因此我没有注意到谈论孩子天赋之行为的普遍程度。
With my first child, who landed comfortably within the official 'talented and gifted' category at school, I was insensitive to how pervasive the talk of giftedness had become.
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