好好学习 早点盖房

关于这本书我就不罗嗦了，非常非常非常好看。Frank McCourt 把自己苦逼的爱尔兰童年写得让人一边哭一边笑，完全陷入疯狂的纠结之中。强烈推荐大家去买来看看，他用词很简单，句子很短，写得非常有画面感。所以获得普利策奖绝对是当之无愧的。

 
下面这段真是精彩啊。

看看最恨学生提问的Mr. Benson 是怎么修理外号叫“Question Quigley"的问号小朋友的：


Sir, he says, what's Sanctifying Grace?
 

The master rolls his eyes to heaven. He's going to kill Quigley. Instead he barks at him, Never mind what's Sanctifying Grace, Quigley. That's none of your business. You're here to learn the catechism and do what you're told. You're not here to be asking questions. There are too many people wandering the wandering the world asking questions and that's what has us in the state we're in and if I find any boy in this class asking questions I wont be responsible for what happens. Do you hear me, Quigley?
 

I do.
I do what?
I do, sir.
 

但是过了一会，问号又cant help him self了：

.....
Question Quigley raises his hand again. There're looks around the room and we wonder if it's suicide he's after.

 
What's henchmen, sir?
 

The master's face goes white, then red. His mouth tightens and opens and spit flies everywhere. He walks to Question and drags him form his seat. He snorts and stutters and his spit flies around the room. He flogs Question across the shoulders, the bottom, the legs. He grabs him by the collar and drags him to the front of the room.


Look at the specimen, he roars.

 
Question is shaking and crying. I'm sorry, sir.

 
The master mocks him. I'm sorry, sir. What are you sorry for?
 

I'm sorry I asked the question. I'll never ask a question again, sir.
 

The day you do, Quigley, will be the day you wish God would take you to His bosom. What will you wish, Quigley?

 
That God will take me to His bosom, sir.


Go back to your seat, you omadhaun, you poltroon, you thing from the far dark corner of a bog.

 

怎么样？这样的老师够剽悍够凶残吧？
 

跟魔鬼般的Benson老师相比，Mr O'Halloran校长就是个慈祥的老天使。他教育孩子们要好好学习，因为这样才能有自己的想法，而一个人的思想，就是一个全世界都不能来干涉打扰的宝库：

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you cant make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.


 ... You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

 
Ah,boys, boys, you can make up your own minds but first stock them.

 

说得多好呀。教育的最大用处，不是拿学位，找工作，混位子，赚票子，买房子；而是以知识为砖瓦，用思想做栋梁，造一座属于自己的，即使世界毁灭也不会轰塌的房子。而且，拥有永久产权和居住权！而且，面积再大也不算违章搭建！而且，永远没人来强拆！而且，可以选择不限年龄不限国籍的牛人当邻居！不喜欢了还可以随时可以把他们踢出去！哇哈哈哈，真是太high啦，有木有！