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rrect judgments than most of us can do with all that we have learned by analysis. 一位清潔女工憑直覺了解的 事情比我們多數(shù)人通過分析 弄清的東西還要多 。 30. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to According to the Bible, man was created by God out of clay. When God breathed the breath of life into the clay, it became alive and the creation of man was pleted. Here the author pares the job of a teacher to the wok of God. He implies that the teacher helps the student bee a real man or woman. 當(dāng)一名教師意味著是創(chuàng)造的 見證人 , 他目睹人體開始呼 吸 , 開始了生命 。 31. a “promotion” out of teaching: a “promotion” from a teaching position to an administrative position “ 提升了 ” ,不再教書了 32. What is the point of being rich? What’s the use of being rich? 做個(gè)富翁有什么意思呢 ? 33. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a I have the power to give my students a gentle push in the right direction, to arouse their interest and curiosity, to remend good books, to point out the way to greater achievements. 我有權(quán)啟迪 , 有權(quán)激發(fā)才智 , 有權(quán)開出書目 , 有權(quán)指點(diǎn)迷 津 。 other power matters? What other power is important to me? 還有其他什么權(quán)力更值得考 慮呢 ? 35. . . . that rare student who walks into a teacher’s life and begins to breathe: . . . that exceptionally good student who bees part of a teacher’s life and begins to grow and change in front of him. 那樣出類拔萃的學(xué)生走進(jìn)了 老師的生活 , 自己也開始成 長了 。 36. Perhaps love is the wrong word。 magic might be better. Perhaps the word “l(fā)ove” is not sufficient to describe what teaching offers。 it might be better to use the word “magic”. 愛這個(gè)字也許用得不恰當(dāng): 說是魔力可能更為貼切 。 37. I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with I teach because, when I see that my students are beginning to grow and change in front of me, I from time to time find myself growing and changing with them too, as if new life were being breathed into my body. 我教書 , 是因?yàn)榕c開始成長 的學(xué)生朝夕相處 , 我有時(shí)感 到自己也和他們一起開始成 長了 。