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美国故事是一档标准美音慢速英语听力节目，故事情节幽默风趣、语言生动，适合想要提高英语听力和口语的童鞋~~速来围观吧~~^_^
Hints:If you will believe me, he came through very well on the day of the examination. He got high praise too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized. By some strange, lucky accident, he was asked no questions but those I made him study. Such an accident does not happen more than once in a hundred years.
Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child. And he always saved himself by some miracle.
I thought that what in the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination. I decided to make his end as painless as possible. So, I pushed facts into his stupid head for hours. Finally, I let him go to the examination to experience what I was sure would be his dismissal from school. Well, sir, try to imagine the result. I was shocked out of my mind. He took first prize! And he got the highest praise.
I felt guilty day and night – what I was doing was not right. But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him. I never dreamed it would lead to such strange, laughable results.
I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.如果你信我的话，他居然在考试的那天顺利地通过了，并且是得到了最高分。然而那些比他懂千万倍的人却被严厉地批评了。一些奇怪的偶然事件使他只被问到了我让他复习过的东西。这样凑巧的事情在一百年内肯定不会发生第二次！哎，在他学习期间，我一直都陪伴着他，就如同一个母亲怀着对残疾孩子的感情一般。而同时，他也总是能通过一些奇迹来让自己化险为夷。我想，最终的数学考试是会摧毁他的。因此，我决定使他受的伤害尽可能要小一些。于是，我长达数小时地坚持给他愚蠢的头脑灌输一些常识性的知识。最终，我还是让他自己在考试中体验被退学的痛苦。好了，先生，您试着设想一下结果吧！反正我是被震惊了。他拿到了一等奖学金！并且得到了最高称赞！而我，日日夜夜都觉得羞愧——我错了！我只是希望他被退学这件事情给他的痛苦要小一些。可我从未想到这会造成一个如此奇怪而又可笑的结果。我想，有一件事迟早都会发生——他曾经在学校通过的这真正的第一次考试将会彻底毁掉他。
——译文来自: 怪物小龙虾 | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:13:00