拥有亿万美元秘密的男孩

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拥有亿万美元秘密的男孩

作者：张超

来源：《中学生英语·中考指导版》2016年第02期

One day in 1965， when I was a librarian at View Ridge School in Seattle， a fourth-grade teacher came up to me. She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge. “Could he help in the library？” she asked. I said， “Send him along.”

1965年，我在西雅图维尤里奇学校当图书馆员时，一天，一个四年级老师来找到我说，她有个学生总是最先完成功课，他需要做点对他有挑战性的工作。“他可以来图书馆帮帮忙吗？”她问。“带他来吧！”我说。

Soon a sandy-haired little boy in jeans and a T-shirt stood in front of me. “Do you have a job for me？” he asked. I told him about the Dewey Decimal System for shelving1 books. He picked up the idea at once. Then I showed him a pile of cards for long overdue2 books that I was beginning to think they had actually been returned but were shelved with the wrong cards in them. He said， “Is it kind of detective job？” I answered， “Yes.” And he became a tireless detective.

不一会儿，一个穿着牛仔裤和T恤衫、长着浅棕色头发的小男孩出现在我的面前。“你有活儿让我干吗？”他问。我给他讲了杜威十进制（Dewey Decimal System）分类藏书法。他很快就领悟了。然后，我拿出一大堆过期未还的书的卡片。我想这些书实际上已经归还，只是由于卡片弄错而放错了书架。他问，“这有点像是侦探工作吧？”在我肯定地回答他后，他便成了一名不屈不挠的“侦探”。

He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said “Time for rest！” He argued for finishing the finding job， but the teacher made the case for fresh air. She won.

在他老师推开门宣布到了休息时间时，他已经找到3本夹错卡片的书。他说他还想继续，直到把活儿干完为止。但老师说他得出去呼吸一下新鲜空气。她最后说服了他。

The next morning， he arrived early. “I wanted to finish finding those books，” he said. At the end of the day， when he asked to be a librarian on a regular basis3， it was easy to say yes. He worked very hard.

第二天早晨，他早早地来了。“我想今天把夹错卡片的书全找出来。”他说。到那天下班时，他提出要做一名正常工作的图书馆员，我马上就答应了。他工作很卖力。

After a few weeks I found a note on my desk， inviting me to dinner at the boy’s home. At the end of a pleasant evening， his mother announced that the family would be moving to the school

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