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About 40 years ago, I was an instructor in the military academy at Willich, when young Scorsby was given his first examination. I felt extremely sorry for him. Everybody answered the questions well, intelligently, while he, why, dear me, he did not know anything, so to speak. He was a nice, pleasant young man; it was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.
大約 40 年前,我在維利希軍事學(xué)院當(dāng)教員,當(dāng)時年輕的斯科斯比第一次參加考試。我為他感到非常難過。每個人都回答得很好,很聰明,而他,天哪,可以說什么都不知道。他是一個善良、愉快的年輕人;看到他站在那里給出愚蠢的奇跡般的答案,真是令人心痛。
I knew, of course, that when examined again, he would fail and be thrown out, so I said to myself, "It would be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could." I took him aside and found he knew a little about Julius Caesar's history, but he did not know anything else. So I went to work and tested him and worked him like a slave.
當(dāng)然,我知道再次考試時,他會不及格并被開除,所以我對自己說,“盡我所能幫助他,這將是一個簡單、無害的行為?!蔽野阉揭贿?,發(fā)現(xiàn)他對尤利烏斯·凱撒的歷史略知一二,但對其他一無所知。所以我開始工作,測試他,像奴隸一樣工作。
I made him work over and over again on a few questions about Caesar, which I knew he would be asked. 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 1,000 times more than he was sharply criticized.
我讓他一遍又一遍地回答幾個關(guān)于凱撒的問題,我知道他會被問到。如果你相信我的話,他在考試那天表現(xiàn)得非常好;他也得到了高度贊揚(yáng),而那些比他多 1,000 倍的人則受到了嚴(yán)厲的批評。
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 100 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.
由于某種奇怪的幸運(yùn)事故,他沒有被問到任何問題,只有我讓他學(xué)習(xí)的問題。這種事故 100 年不會發(fā)生超過一次。好吧,在他的整個學(xué)習(xí)過程中,我都以母親對殘疾孩子的感情支持著他,他總是奇跡般地拯救了自己。我以為最終會毀掉他的是數(shù)學(xué)考試。
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