? ? ? 闲靠在沙发上闭门养神，遥思神游中居然想到了中学时代学过的一些英语课文。

? ? ? 那个年代，作为英语科代表的我最盼望的就是早读时间和英语课堂了。组织同学们打开英语课本，一篇篇经典的英语课文，一字一句、煞有其事、像模像样地诵读起来。

? ? ? 诵读的那些经典中有the moneky and the crocodile, How Karl Marx learned foreign languages, Nathan Hale, Life in the future, Why the bat comes out only at night, The Arab in the desert, the seagulls of Salt Lake City, the Pyramids, Once a thief, always a thief, the fisherman and the genie, etc.

? ? ? 想着想着，终于按耐不住，马上坐起，登陆搜索引擎找寻到其中的一篇 A portrait of a teacher，朗读，录音，然后配上柴可夫斯基的《如歌的行板》。权且用这经典篇章的诵读当作送给自己从教三十多年的礼物吧。

? ? ? 我愿像文中的老师一样，心中满满地装着学生，健康快乐地、有意义地行走在这教书育人的路上。江南一烛，愿烛光照亮我，也照亮更多志同道合的您。同时，祝福所有的教师朋友们健康快乐、万事如意！

A PORTRAIT OF A TEACHER

The night before last, just before dinner,while my father was looking through the evening paper, he suddenly let out a cry of surprise. Later he explained: \"I had thought that he had died at least twenty years ago. But can you believe that my first teacher, , is still living? He is eighty-four years old and yesterday the Department of Education gave him a medal for having completed sixty years of teaching. Sixty years! Can you imagine it? He gave up teaching only two years ago. He lives in Deleville, which is only about an hour's ride from , tomorrow is Saturday. Let's drive over there and say hello to him.\"

The next afternoon my father and I drove over to Deleville to seeMr. Crossett. Everyone in the town knew him so we had no trouble in finding his house. When he came to the door, my father recognized him at once, though, of course,he was now a very old man.

\"Mr. Crossett,\" said my father, \"Will you permit an old pupil to shake hands with you?\"

Mr. Crossett looked at us curiously.

\"An old pupil? I'm sorry but... your name?\"

My father told him his name - Albert Borden, the year in which he had studied, and the name of the school.

The old man dropped his head and began to murmur my father's name. Suddenly he looked up.

\"Albert Borden? Your father was an engineer, and you live very near the school.\"

\"Exactly,\" said my father, shaking the old man's hand.

Later my father and Mr. Crossett talked for about half an hour of things and persons they remembered in the school. The old man's hands shook constantly, and he explained to my father how this shaking had begun two years before, and how he had been forced to give up his teaching because of this. Otherwise he would still be working, because his heart and soul were still in the schoolroom with his students. He went to a closet and after a moment brought out package, marked with name and date. Out of the package he drew a paper and gave it to my father. It was marked with my father's name and with the month and the year. It was one of my father's own copybook exercises! Mr. Crossett thus kept a record of all his old students. My father read the exercise and tears came to his eyes.

On the way home my father told me of an incident that took place on his first day at school in Mr. Crossett's class.

During the course of the lesson Mr. Crossett noticed that one of the students looked sick and feverish. He walked to the student's desk and put his hand on the child's forehead. While his back was turned another student in the class got up from his seat, and began to make faces just to make the other students laugh. turned rapidly and glared at the student.

\"Don't do that again,\" he said quietly but firmly. Then he went back to his desk and went on with the lesson. After a while he put down his book, looked at the students in silence for several minutes, then said:

\"My friends, we have to spend this year together and we must try to spend it together happily. You should study hard and be good students. I do not want you simply to promise me with words that you will be good. I want you to show me with your hearts that here we are all part of one big family. I want to be proud of you.\"

At the moment the bell rang announcing the end of the class. One by one the students got up from their seats and left the room quietly. The boy who had made faces, however, went up to Mr. Crossett's desk and in a trembling voice said:

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