"布朗尼加分"口語課堂:有夢,有未來

嗨，大家好，我是Rose。感謝您的關注，感謝你的支持，也希望您每天光顧可可的這段時間總有收穫。現實很無奈，但希望每個人在高唱“我是一隻小小鳥，想要飛卻怎麼也飛不高”之後，還能懷揣希望，向自己渴望的目標再次進發。有一天您會發現，擁有夢想是一件非常幸福的事兒。

Jim Hill has learned that dreams can come true. Born in Mexico, Jim grew up in Texas in a poor family. As a child, Jim was a bookworm and he loved school. At 15, he already dreamed of being a teacher.

One day at school, young Jim dropped by to see his guidance counselor. He told the counselor his plans for the future. But this guy said he would never be college material. He threw cold water on Jim's dream.

After graduating from high school, Jim got a job as a janitor at Mayfield High School in New Mexico. He cleaned bathrooms and swept floors. The years went by. Now and then, he talked to his wife about his childhood dream of being a teacher.

One day, when Jim was 41 years old, his wife gave him some papers. She had enrolled him in college! "It was strange going back to school at my age," said Jim. "I felt like an old man around all those kids!" The words of his first professor changed his life. "Everyone in this room is capable of succeeding. You can all make an A," he said. Jim hit the books and made his first A in college.

Jim finished college, and now he's teaching at Mayfield High School. His students love him. "Many students don't realize that I'm the same man who used to sweep the floors in this school," said Jim.

Jim Hill從小就是一個bookworm，書蟲，也就是愛讀書的人，並且dream of being a teacher，dream of doing something夢想做某事。例如：Many boys dream of becoming pilots. 許多男孩夢想成爲飛行員。

然而，一天他dropped by his guidance sounselor，去見他的輔導員。Drop by意爲make a shor visit，順路拜訪，非正式拜訪。這個老師卻threw cold water on him. 僅從字面意思上大家也能明白這個短語和漢語中我們說的“潑某人冷水”一個意思，就是“打擊；使……泄氣”。再比如：I want to go to medical school but my dad throw cold water on this idea. 我想上醫學院，可是我爸爸給我潑冷水。 I don't want to throw cold water on your ideas, but I think you are over optimistic . 我不想對你的想法潑冷水，不過我認爲你過於樂觀了。

一個很讓人無語的老師。他的一句話讓Jim的夢想被擱置了二十多年。好在Jim的妻子鼓勵他重新嘗試。正如Jim後來碰到的教授所說的那樣，每個人都是be capable of succeeding的。Be capable of doing something有能力做某件事。每個人都以make an A. 大家都知道在歐美等國，學生的學習成果習慣用A,B,C,D來劃分等級。Make an A自然就是能取得好成績的意思了。

聽了這樣的鼓勵，難怪Jim會hit the books.了。這裏您千萬別以爲Jim是在揍書，他是講自己投入到了書本之中。也就是 study hard的意思。再比如It's good to hit the books, but you need to get out once in a while. 整天看書很好，但是偶然出去一下，對你也是有必要的。

夢想成真很幸福，有人尊重你的夢想，並願意幫助你實現夢想似乎更幸福。讓我們在Jim的幸福中重新搜索一下記憶裏曾經嚮往的一切吧。我們下期“布朗尼加分口語”再見。