第二个片段是我在大约27年前所撰写的一个故事的开头，那时我居住在亚利桑那州的图森市，从事散文教学和创作。

This second piece is the opening of a story I wrote some 27 years ago while living in Tucson, Arizona, teaching and writing prose.

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那天我决定跳过故事，回到我自己通常的教学大纲上来。

That day I decided to skip the story and return to my usual syllabus.

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虽然我努力减少讲话的时间，但仍认为一个恰当的故事对于鼓励和增加学生对你所教学科的兴趣可以产生奇妙的作用。

Although I strive to minimize talking, I still believe that an appropriately timed story can work wonders in encouraging and increasing interest in your subject.

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And before we go into some of the technicalities of the class such as the syllabus, I want to end with a story about Peter Drucker.

在我们开始讲本课程的一些细节比如教学大纲之前，我想先讲一个关于Peter，Drucker的故事。

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