大家说到老师的好处，多半会说羡慕有两个假。。。
某种职业 are admired and rewarded
Teachers are spoken to politely but they aren’t respected; they’re congratulated on having such long vacations.
教师日常
it doesn’t get easier!
McCourt sails the stormy seas of the New York education system.
I could see the admiration in their eyes.
I agree you had their full attention
I wanted to fill my students’ heads with spelling and vocabulary.
被批评的学生 His face froze, and I knew I’d lost him.
要学会自我思考 You have a duty to think for yourselves
借酒消愁Teaching forced me to forget my problems. I could cry into my beer in the evening, but in the classroom I had to think about my work.
接待家长
I could never understand why she behaved like that.
“Does he behave himself in class? Is he polite?” “Oh, yes. He always has something to say in our discussions.”
My face burned with embarrassment.
She stood by the door calmly saying goodnight to the parents, pretending not to notice their angry stares.
老师发飙
My head felt hot and I wanted to shout, “Why do I have to waste my time with you when outside spring birds are singing in the morning sun? Why do I have to look at your silly, bad-tempered faces? You’re not hungry. You’re well-clothed and warm. You’re getting a free high school education and you’re not even slightly grateful. Learn the parts of a sentence. Am I asking too much? Why can’t you just look at this sentence and, for the first time in your miserable teenage existence, try to learn?”
天下大同-借口一箩筐
I have a drawer full of excuse notes that would make an excellent book: Great American Excuses.
Imagine you have a fifteen- year-old son or daughter who needs an excuse for not doing homework.”
Why hadn’t I noticed this drawer full of great writing before— this palace of literature, these jewels of fiction, imagination, and self-pity, with details of family problems, kitchen explosions, falling ceilings, illnesses, robberies, and badly-behaved babies? Here was American high school writing at its best—real, urgent, clear, short, fiction:
The oven caught fire and the fire department kept us out of the house all night.
The toilet was broken so we had to use the toilet in Kilkenny Bar; but that was broken too.
The train door shut on Arnold's homework bag and took it away.
His sister's dog ate the homework and I hope it kills him.
Her big brother got mad with her and threw her homework out the window.
I imagined the writers of excuse notes on buses and trains, in coffee shops and on park seats, trying to discover new and believable excuses, trying to write in their parents’ style.
The bag landed on the floor
门关得很响The door hits the wall with a loud noise.
寻求其他方式sb. should look the other way
搞得定manage the situation
发出爆笑There’s an explosion of laughing.
抹眼泪She brushed the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand.
There was a storm of complaints.
