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听力原文及翻译

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. 

大约 40 年前，我在维利希军事学院当教员，当时年轻的斯科斯比第一次参加考试。我为他感到非常难过。每个人都回答得很好，很聪明，而他，天哪，可以说什么都不知道。他是一个善良、愉快的年轻人；看到他站在那里给出愚蠢的奇迹般的答案，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. 

当然，我知道再次考试时，他会不及格并被开除，所以我对自己说，“尽我所能帮助他，这将是一个简单、无害的行为。”我把他拉到一边，发现他对尤利乌斯·凯撒的历史略知一二，但对其他一无所知。所以我开始工作，测试他，像奴隶一样工作。

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. 

我让他一遍又一遍地回答几个关于凯撒的问题，我知道他会被问到。如果你相信我的话，他在考试那天表现得非常好；他也得到了高度赞扬，而那些比他多 1,000 倍的人则受到了严厉的批评。

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.

由于某种奇怪的幸运事故，他没有被问到任何问题，只有我让他学习的问题。这种事故 100 年不会发生超过一次。好吧，在他的整个学习过程中，我都以母亲对残疾孩子的感情支持着他，他总是奇迹般地拯救了自己。我以为最终会毁掉他的是数学考试。

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