Unit 10 Just Average
第10单元 普普通通
In my third year of school, something happened and my attitude about working hard changed. I'm not sure what it was, but something encouraged me to study a little harder for this one particular test we were going to have at school.
我在三年级时发生了一件事，改变了我对努力认真的态度，我不确定是什么事，不过那件事鼓励我对学校即将展开的小考，再多用功点。
In my whole life, I was always just an average student. My parents seemed to think I could do better and reminded me of this all the time. In many ways, their nagging made it so I didn't want to study or work hard. Of course this caused problems when it came to getting grades back.
我从小到大一直都是个普通的学生，我父母似乎认为我可以做得更好，因此经常提醒我这点，他们大事小事都要唠叨，使得我更不想要用功念书，当然啰，每次拿成绩单回家，免不了又会有问题。
Well, like I said there was this one test. Four days I prepared for it! On the day of the test I remember feeling very confident and found the tast fairly easy to write.
不过这次小考，我花了四天准备！考试当天，我记得感觉非常有自信，而且发现考试很简单。
The following day we got our test scores back. I had the top grade! Needless to say, my parents were very happy with me. More important though, I realized that I could be more than just average. A lesson I learned by proving to myself, not because someone else told me.
隔天我拿到考试分数，我考满分！不用说我父母也很满意我的表现，不过重要的是，我了解到我可以不只是普普通通，并没有人告诉我这一点，而是我向自己证明了这一点。

【美】 Meredith Walker 著 陈怡芬 译

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