时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第四册


英语课

Lesson57 Value of Praise
 Sister Mroslas, in 1962, was a teacher at St. Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota.
One of her students was called Eklund and he was handful 1. He often got in trouble. But Sister Mroslas liked him. Sometimes she laughed even as she punished him.
And he was very polite. At the end of every day he would tell her, "Thank you for teaching 2 me."
One day the students in Sister Mroslas's math class were feeling down. They were having a hard time understanding algebra 3.
Sister Mroslas tried to think of a way to make them feel better about themselves. She told students each to pull out a sheet of paper. On it, they wrote the names of all the other students in the class. Next to each name she told them to write something nice about that person.
Sister Mroslas collected the slips of paper. Later, she made a list for each student of the nice things their classmates had said about them. She handed the papers out during the next class.
Nine years later in 1971, Eklund died while serving as a soldier in Vietnam. Sister Mroslas went to his funeral. While she was there, Eklund's father showed her his son's wallet. In it was the piece of paper she had given him with his classmates' nice words on it.
Some of the other class members were also at the funeral. One after another, they revealed 4 that they still had their pieces of paper, too. One person had put his in his wedding album.
Another kept hers in her diary. Yet another kept his in his wallet just as Eklund had done.
"That's when I finally sat down and cried," Sister Mroslas said.


handful 难控制的人


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1962年,莫罗斯修女在明尼苏达州莫里斯区的圣玛丽学校教书。
有个叫埃克伦的学生很难管,经常惹麻烦。但莫罗斯修女喜欢他,甚至惩罚他时,有时她还会笑。
而他很有礼貌。每天放学时,他会对莫罗斯修女说:“谢谢您的教导。”
有天,在莫罗斯修女的数学课上,学生情绪低落。他们在理解代数时遇到了困难。
莫罗斯修女尽力想办法让学生们对自己感觉好一些。她让学生每人拿出一张纸,在纸上写出班里所有学生的名字,在每个名字旁边写上这个同学的优点。
莫罗斯修女把纸条收上来。之后,她为每个学生做了一个单子,上面是其他人写的该同学的优点。再上课时,她把纸发了下去。
9年后的1971年,埃克伦作为一名士兵死于越南战争。莫罗斯修女参加了他的葬礼。她一到那里,埃克伦的父亲就让她看儿子的钱包,里面是她发的写有同学对其表扬的话的纸。
班里的其他同学有些也参加了葬礼。一个接一个,他们也透露自己仍保留着那张纸。有个学生把它放进了自己的婚礼纪念册。另一个把自己的收在日记中。还有一个像埃克伦一样放在钱包里。
“那时我终于坐下来哭了,”莫罗斯修女说。



1 handful
n.一把;少量,少数,一小撮
  • We invited 30 people, but only a handful came.我们邀请了30人,但是只到了几个人。
  • He pulled out a handful of coins from his pocket.他从口袋里掏出一把硬币。
2 teaching
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
3 algebra
n.代数学
  • He was not good at algebra in middle school.他中学时不擅长代数。
  • The boy can't figure out the algebra problems.这个男孩做不出这道代数题。
4 revealed
v.显示( reveal的过去式和过去分词 );揭示;泄露;[神学]启示
  • They revealed to me that the experiment had failed. 他们向我透露试验失败了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His insincerity is revealed by the quick goggle of his eyes. 他眼睛的快速转动泄露了他的不诚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
'gator
accounting authority
accumulation fund of collective enterprises in cities and towns
activating blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis
agricultural development programme
altimeter check location
amalda rubiginosa
angular wheel slide
anti-permissive
aqua fortis
arms akimbo
as (asch)
baseball throw
bemad
bendwise
Bertrand's postulate
bicycle seat
bottom casting
bottom shear blade
cineplasty
coaxations
complete secondhand plant
controversary
copper arsenite
counter rate meter
dayproes
deekyin
delayed overcurrent trip
desorption potential
dettopsomyia nigrovittata
dwining
elastic moduluss
equivalent codes
flobber
for every
foreign exch
fuel-coolant interaction
get physical
Girgashite
Gorkhali
gross domestic investments
hand haulage
high noise insulation
homologous terms
hubs of the universe
hydrogen desulfurizaion
jazmin
La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois
level signal generator
lucrative post
lype
mainmort
marmota monaxes
methylthio-
mountain prides
nonprofessionally
optical transmission and dispersion
ovariohysterectomized
ozma
pachyrhizuss
pancreas congenital anomalies
patricia tree
pencil-tube osillator
penicillium lanosum
pleuro-pulmonary fistula
position loop
positive film stock
production language compiler
quasiequilibrium
rainpants
ram turbine
re-christened
read-write counter
reestated
Reno Junction
richard horatio edgar wallaces
rolling flight
salvadore
security assistance
semi-revenue
Sevag method
side telescope
Sir Philip Sidney
skim-milk
so sorry
step counter
sterling area
stoked
sub-leases
supertramps
timebound
tit bits
train of wave
upward flow
ureteralgia
variable operating cost
vertical fillet weld
wank shelter
weymouth pine
window-blind holland
zambesis
Zhaksykylysh, Ozero