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A “D Minus” 毕生难忘的成绩 By Roger Dean Kiser 文字难度2 小云 译 在学校里，学生、老师、分数，三者总是有着很微妙的关系。有人会因得个高分而对“她”格外尊敬；也会为拿了个坏成绩而对“他”怀恨在心。成绩无论是对升学还是师生关系都意义非凡。然而，当你走过了那段岁月，回顾过去，你对成绩也许已然淡漠；或许，你最最怀念的只是那位曾经理解你、包容你的师长。 I remember my Landon Junior High School seventh grade maths teacher’s name very well. It was Mr. Young. He stood out because the kids made fun of him. He was missing one of his fingers, and always 1)pointed at students with his middle finger. For some reason I was not very good in school. English and Math were my worst two subjects. There was just something wrong with me, inside my head. No matter how hard I tried, I just could not figure out why I did not understand what all the other kids found so easy to learn. I don’t think there was ever a day I went to school that I was not afraid. One day, I was told by Mrs. Winters, the head 2)matron of the Children’s Home Society 3)Orphanage, that if I got one more E on my report card, I would be taken to the 4)Juvenile Court in downtown 5)Jacksonville, Florida. She would tell the judge to send me away to the “big prison for kids”. I tried really hard for weeks to learn how to 6)multiply, do 7)fractions, and 8)compound things. I just couldn’t understand how to make different parts of numbers into whole things; my brain just couldn’t do it, no matter how hard I tried. The day before report cards were to come out, I knew that Mr. Young would give me an E, just like he always did. After class ended, I went to Mr. Young and told him that the orphanage was going to send me to the big prison if I got another E on my report card. He told me there was nothing he could do; it would be unfair to the other kids if he gave me a better grade than I had actually earned. I smiled at him, turned and walked towards the door, then I stopped. I looked at the teacher and said, “Mr. Young, you know how all the kids make fun of you because you’re missing your finger?” He looked at me, moved his mouth to one side, like he was biting the inside of his g