【正文】 ago as your middle school university teacher’s job is little more than giving you guidance in advanced ’s up to you to improve your writing ’m in no position to do much to help you.”“You’re too modest, sir, ” mumbled another classmate.“Sir, shall we do the writing in the classroom or after school?”That was a silly question raised by my humble self, a country classmates started giggling at I wasn’t embarrassed at the contrary, I thought their giggling was totally uncalled for.“Do as you ’s OK if you want to do it in the write on a subject most favourite to , see you!”We watched him passing out of sight around a corner of the long , two thirds of the students also left the student sitting on my right asked me in a whisper,“What are you going to write about?”“Mother’s Longing for the Return of Her Wandering Child,” I answered without the slightest hesitation.“A short story?”“’s a lyrical essay.”I was overjoyed at the advantages enjoyed by university of all, we were given more freedom to do what we thought position class was just one remembered what had annoyed me most in middle school was that the teachers of Chinese then never gave us position subjects in would write a subject on the blackboard at the last minute when they came to meet the of them gave two or three subjects for us to choose gave us only one subject like Learn the New by Reviewing the Old, The Destiny of the Nation Is the Concern of Every Citizen, Thoughts on National Day, etc., all of which I found extremely preferred our teacher to make public the position subject several days before the class preferred lyrical, descriptive and narrative subjects to argumentative ones because being enthusiastic, young people are fond of lyrical and descriptive writings and also eager to write about their own emotions and by giving a true account of our feelings, thoughts and life, can weproduce good students to do hollow theorizing in position will not only fail to improve their writing ability but also subject them, so to speak, to an ordeal of invisible mental my school days, I chose to write on whatever subject I liked , when I became a school teacher, I, by keeping firmly in mind the maxim “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself”, always took care not to impose on my students anything that would cause mental , I would set 2030 subjects for them to select , I would just let them decide on a subject by themselves so that they could write about anything as they , they even let me polish up the love letters penned by themselves, which, to tell you the truth, would read much more smoothly than the positions they usually mentioned above, after I became a university student, there was nothing more agreeable to me than the freedom I enjoyed in this period, being poor and busy, I lived a hard was so hard up that I couldn’t even afford the streetcar though I worked nonstop day and night, I still felt hard pressed for time to finish correcting papers and preparing was because while I was a firstyear student at the university, I concurrently taught Chinese at two middle imagine a country girl fresh from middle school having the audacity to teach those husky young northerners!They certainly had every reason to call me “Child Teacher”.點(diǎn)評(píng)謝冰瑩于1929年5月從上海到達(dá)北平，不久考入北京女子師范大學(xué)，《我愛作文》是她在這時(shí)期寫的一篇散文。此句也可以這樣處理：Now, as university students…。⑥“望斷天涯兒不歸”譯為Mother’s Longin