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me, she said slowly andsolemnly, "Mr. Holt, do you really mean that?" I said just as solemnly, "Imean every word of it."
为功课不好最近才转学到我们学校来，后来我发现她非常有趣、活泼、聪明，在我所有的学孩子们都愣住了，坐着不出声。这真的是老师在说话吗？其中一个女孩，因生中都算突出的。我讲完后，她盯住我看了很久。然后，她继续看着我，缓慢而严肃地问：“霍尔特先生，你说的话是真的吗？”我也同样严肃地回答：“真的，一点不假。”
Apparentlyshe decided to believe me. The first book she read wasDr.Seuss'sHow theGrinchStole Christmas, not a hard book even for most third graders. For a while she read a number of books on this level. Perhaps she wasclearing upsomeconfusionabout reading that her teachers, in their hurry to get her up to "grade level," had never given her enough time to clear up. After she had been in the class six weeks or so and we had become good friends, I verytentatively(试探性地) suggested that, since she was a skillful rider and loved horses, she might like to readNationalVelvet.I made mysellas soft as possible,saying only that it was about a girl who loved and rode horses, and that if she didn't like it, she could put it back. She tried it, and though she must have found it quite a
bit harder than what she had been reading, finished it and liked it very much.
显然，她打算照我说的办。她读的第一本书是索伊斯博士写的《格林奇偷走圣诞节》，这本书对大多数三年级的学生都不算难，更不要说这个年级的孩子了。有一阵子，她读的书都在这个难易度上。也许她是在消除对阅读的一些困惑，而以前她没时间去做，因为老师总是催促她看这个年级“该看的书”。她在这个班上学习了六七个星期后，我们成了好朋友。我试探地向她建议：既然她喜欢马，而且骑马的水平还不错，她可以读一读《侠女神驹》。我尽可能委婉地提出这个建议。我只告诉她那是一本关于一个热爱马并常常骑马的女孩的故事；如果她不喜欢读，她可以放回书架。她去读了，也许她觉得这本书比她先前读的书要难点，但是她读完了，而且挺喜欢。
During the springsemester, she reallyastonishedme, however. One day, in one of our many free periods, she was reading at her desk. FromaglimpseoftheillustrationsI thought I knew what the book was. I said to myself, "It can't be," and went to take a closer look.Sure enough, she was readingMoby Dick, in theeditionwithwoodcuts(木刻) byRockwellKent. When I came close to her desk, she looked up. I said, "Are you really reading that?" She said she was. I said, "Do you like it?" She said, "Oh, yes,it's neat!" I said, "Don't you find parts of it rather heavy going?" She answered, "Oh, sure, but I justskip(略过，跳过) over those parts and go on to the next good part."
春季的那一学期，她的表现可真的让我吃惊了。一天，在我们的自习课上我看到她坐在课桌前看书。我瞥了一眼书中的插图我就知道这是一本什么书了。但是我不相信我的眼睛：“不可能吧。”我走过去仔细一看，果然她在读《白鲸》，那版本配有罗克威尔·肯特的木刻画。我走近她的时候，她抬起头来。我问她：“你真的在看这本书吗？”她说，是的。我又问：“你喜欢这本书吗？”“嗯，是的。这本书很好。”她答道。“你不觉得有些地方很难吗？”我又问道。“有啊，不过，看不懂就跳过去，挑有意思的地方看。”她这样回答。
This is exactly what reading should be, but in school, reading is not always an