Lesson 3 Teachers
第三课 老师
My Teacher
我的老师
Graham Lawrence, 29, science author who gives presentations on TV, went to Overton School, 1981-1989.
29岁的格雷厄姆·劳伦斯是一名科学作家和电视主持人，他于1981年到1989年在欧威顿学校上学。
I haven't seen Mr Jenkins since I left school but I often think about him.
自从我离开学校后我就没有见过詹金斯老师，但是我经常想起他。
I wasn't very good at most school subjects.
我对学校里大多数的科目都不太擅长。
I suppose I was a bit lazy and now I wish I'd done more work, especially in maths.
我想我当时有点懒，现在我真希望当时能多加努力，特别是在数学方面。
The only thing I can remember from school maths is that the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees!
数学我唯一能记得的就是三角形的内角之和为180度。
But when I was 15 and went into Mr Jenkins' class,
但是当我15岁走进詹金斯老师的课堂时，
I really became interested in a subject for the first time.
我第一次着实对一门学科感兴趣了。
Before Mr Jenkins, science had simply been a subject full of strange words to me.
在詹金斯老师教我之前，科学课对我而言只是一门充满怪异词汇的科目。
I had no idea what an atom was and I didn't really want to know either!
我不知道原子是什么，而且我也确实不想知道！
I found it all so boring and difficult.
我觉得所有的科学都那么枯燥和困难。
But Mr Jenkins made everything interesting.
但是詹金斯老师让一切都变得有趣。
He used to explain things with lots of practical examples and simplified things that seemed difficult.
他常常用很多实例来解释事件，把那些看起来很难的事情简单化。
One day, he took us outside and we built a rocket!
有一天，他把我们带到户外，我们做了一个火箭！
I remember that he let me pour some powder into the rocket
我记得他让我把一些粉末灌进火箭里，
and then another student lit a flame to set it off.
然后另一个学生点火将它发射。
It was great fun.
真的非常有趣。
I know that I wasn't a willing student and I shouldn't have been so difficult at school,
我知道我不是一个听话的学生，我在学校也不应该这么难管教，
but it was probably because I lacked confidence in myself.
但这可能是因为我缺乏自信。
Mr Jenkins made me feel that I could do things.
詹金斯老师让我觉得我能做很多事情。
I was interested in astronomy and he asked me to give a presentation to the class.
我对天文感兴趣，他让我给全班同学作一次讲述。
That was really the first time I ever tried to explain science to an audience and now it's my job!
那真的是我第一次试着向一群听众解释科学，而现在它成了我的工作！
Often when I'm preparing a programme, I think about how Mr Jenkins would have done it.
当我在准备一个项目的时候，我经常会想詹金斯老师会怎么做。
Sometimes I wish I could phone him and ask for his opinion!
有时候我真希望能打电话给他，请他给我意见。