美語情景對話 第1056期:Best Teacher 最好的老師

Jeremy: Abidemi, so looking back at your life as a student, can you tell me a little bit about your experience with the best teacher that you had, and maybe a little bit about your worst teacher?

傑里米：阿比德米，回顧一下你的學生時代，你能說說你遇到的最好的老師和最糟糕的老師嗎？

Abidemi: Sure. I think I've had many, many great teachers. I've been really blessed in that way. Thinking back now, I remember my teacher when I was in primary 6 in Nigeria, actually. His name was Mr. Oleaer. And this teacher was a math and science teacher. And I think the best thing about him was he really took a personal interest in all of us. We could tell that he really cared. Although, he was very much a teacher, he took that authority role but at the same time, he was like our friend. Like during the break time, we would approach him, we would talk to him. And over the summer, he tutored a few of us for the entrance examination to high school because we have that system in Nigeria. So it was just fun. Every time we saw him, we just have a good time with him. And I remembered he talked to me. He mentored—he was like a mentor. He came to me, and he was wondering what I wanted to be in the future and he made some suggestions because of the scores I had in his class. And to this day, I still remember him. He sticks in my mind. And having taught for a little bit as well, I think for me too, he's one of the people that I tried to model myself after. I model myself after him. Maybe not even consciously, but I liked the fact that he was a teacher and we knew it but at the same time, he was very friendly. So I really love that aspect of him. How about you, Jeremy? Anyone comes to mind?

阿比德米：當然可以。我想我遇到了很多優秀的老師。在這方面我真的很幸運。回想一下，我記得我在尼日利亞上小學六年級時的老師。他的名字是奧萊爾。他是數學和科學老師。我認爲他最大的優點是他真的對我們所有學生都非常關心。我們可以他出來他很關心我們。雖然他是老師，他有老師的權威，但是他也像我們的朋友一樣。在課間休息時，我們會圍在他身邊和他聊天。有一年夏天，他給我們幾個人輔導高中入學考試，這是尼日利亞的教學體系。那非常有意思。每次我們看到他，我們都會和他一起度過美好的時光。我還記得他和我的談話。他對我進行了指導，他有點兒像導師。他過來找我，他想知道我未來想做什麼，他依據我在班裏的成績給我提了一些建議。至今我依然記得他。他令我記憶深刻。我也從事過一段時間的教學工作，我認爲他是我努力想學習的模範。我想效仿他。也許我並不是有意識的，不過我很欣賞他既是老師又很友好的樣子。我非常欣賞那點。你呢，傑里米？你有想到哪位老師嗎？

Jeremy: You know, it was more just sort of teacher qualities that I remember from a number of different teachers. And what I always really—when I look back and think about teachers that made a difference, it was teachers that recognized students' weakness and tried to counsel them or to sort of—in my case, it was that I was a very, very shy person. And a teacher who would talk to me a little bit and give me encouragement if I did a presentation, which was just the worst thing I could possibly ever do because I was so nervous. But teachers that recognized I had a real serious shy problem, and that they would just give a little bit of encouragement. And those with little bits of encouragement, over time I started to gain a little bit more confidence. And by the time I was in university, I still had a problem with giving presentations but—even in university, I had teachers who would compliment me on a job attempted—and I wouldn't really say well done, but I tried. And those were the things that really stood out, teachers that recognize when people have issues in their life and they really try to encourage them to overcome those issues. It wasn't just one teacher. It was a number of teachers. But not all teachers did that. Some of them, it wasn't part of their job description to be a counselor, I guess, and it was more work and they just didn't attempted or didn't care or maybe didn't recognize it. But some people really thought, here's a guy who maybe needs a little bit of extra boost, and they would try to help me out. Those are the probably the things that stick out in my mind. And like you, I try to model myself after those teachers to try to find students who need a little bit of extra encouragement and make them feel better about themselves.

傑里米：我記得的更多的是那些老師的素質。在回顧以前教過我的一些老師時，我認爲老師和老師之間最大的不同是，有些老師能認識到學生的缺點，並盡力給學生提供建議，就以我來說，我以前是一個非常非常害羞的人。如果我要做展示，那可是我最不喜歡做的事情，因爲我非常緊張，這個時候會有老師過來和我談話，鼓勵我。老師意識到我非常害羞，他們會給我鼓勵。因爲有這些鼓勵，隨着時間的推移，我變得越來越自信。我上大學以後，在做展示時依然存在問題，不過在大學的時候，有老師稱讚我的工作，不能說我完成的很好，但我已經盡力了。我認爲這些是老師突出的品質，即留意學生遇到的問題，並努力去鼓勵學生克服問題。並不是只有一個老師能做到，有一大批老師都可以做到。但是並不是所有的老師都會這樣做。有些老師可能認爲輔導並不是他們的工作內容，那是額外的工作，他們沒有去做或者說並不關心，甚至是沒有意識到這點。不過有些人則會認爲，這個人也許需要鼓勵，然後他們就會努力提供幫助。這些是我想到的事情。和你一樣，我也努力以那些爲有需要的學生提供幫助並增加學生自信的老師爲榜樣。

Abidemi: I think that's great. I think as teachers, everyone, if you have an opportunity to be a teacher, one of the best things you can do is to try and find the potential in each and everyone of your student because everyone has something special in them. And for a teacher to recognize that, it's so awesome. It's amazing. Yeah.

阿比德米：那非常棒。我認爲，作爲老師，如果大家有機會成爲老師，那你能做的最好的事情之一就是試圖去發現每名學生身上的潛力，因爲所有人都有特長。對老師來說，意識到這一點非常了不起。真的很棒。

Jeremy: I think you're right.

傑里米：你說得沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. look back 追憶；回顧；
例句：She can look back on her career with great satisfaction.
她回顧自己的經歷覺得心滿意足。
2. stick in one's mind 被牢記在心；印在腦海中；
例句：I've always been fond of poetry and one piece has always stuck in my mind.
我一直喜愛詩歌，有一首詩總是牢記在我心間。
3. come to mind 突然想起；(想法)一下子冒出來；
例句：I just picked up whatever goods come to mind.
我只是想到什麼就拿什麼罷了。
4. stand out 突出；出色；更爲重要；
例句：His work stands out from that of others.
他的作品比其他人的出色。