The List

One day a teacher asked her students to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

一天，一位老师让学生们想一下他们能说的关于每个同学最美好的事情，并把它写下来。

It took the rest of the class period to finish it. And as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

完成这件事占用了那节课剩下的时间。当学生们离开教室时，每个人都交了卷子。

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

那个星期六，老师在一张纸上写下了每个学生的名字，并把其他人对这个人的评价列了出来。

On Monday, she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whisper. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much," were most of the comments.

星期一，她给了每个学生他或她的评价单。不久，全班同学都笑了。“真的吗？” 她听到有人低声说：“我从来不知道我对别人来说意味着什么！” 以及 “我不知道别人这么喜欢我，” 这是大多数人的感慨。

Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral.

几年后，其中一名学生在越南被杀，他的老师参加了葬礼。

After the funeral, Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.

葬礼结束后，马克的父母都在那里站着，显然等着和老师说话。

"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it."

“我们想给你看一样东西，” 他的父亲说着，从口袋里拿出了一个钱包。“马克被杀时，他们在他身上发现了这个。我们想你可能认得它。”

Opening the billfold（皮夹子）, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.

他打开皮夹，小心翼翼地取出两张破旧的笔记本纸，显然这两张纸用胶带粘过，一次次折叠过。不用看，老师就知道这些卷子就是她把每个同学对马克说过的好话都列在上面的纸。

"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."

“非常感谢你这么做，” 马克的妈妈说。“正如你所看到的，马克很珍视它。”

All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around.

马克以前的同学都开始聚了过来。

Charlie said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home."

查理说：“我的评价单还在。在我家书桌最上面的抽屉里。”

Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."

查克的妻子说：“查克让我把他的放在我们的结婚相册里。”

"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."

“我的也在，”玛丽莲说。“在我的日记里。”

Then Vicki, took out her wallet and showed her worn list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times. And I think we all saved our lists."

然后薇姬拿出她的钱包，把她那张破旧的单子给大家看。“我一直带着这个。我想我们都保存着自己的评价单。”