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The children came rushing, said, "What's all this?"
孩子們涌了過來問：“這些都是什么？”
So I said, "It's very topical, very important. But it's all in English."
我說：“這些都是熱門的，重要的東西。但都是英文寫的。”
So they said, "How can we understand such big English words and diagrams and chemistry?"
他們就說：“我們怎么可能懂這么多英語單詞還有圖表和化學？”
So by now, I had developed a new pedagogical method, so I applied that.
那時候，我已經學會一種新的教育方法，于是我用了。
I said, "I haven't the foggiest idea." "And anyway, I am going away."
我說：“我一點兒都不知道。”“反正，我要走了。”
So I left them for a couple of months. They'd got a zero. I gave them a test.
所以我離開他們幾個月。我以為他們會得零分。我給他們作了一次測驗。
I came back after two months and the children trooped in and said, "We've understood nothing."
兩個月之后我回去了，孩子們成群結隊地跑來說：“我們什么都沒搞明白。”
"Well, what did I expect?"
“好吧，我能期望什么呢？”
So I said, "Okay, but how long did it take you before you decided that you can't understand anything?"
我說：“但是你們花了多長時間得出的結論說你們什么都搞不懂呢？”
So they said, "We haven't given up. We look at it every single day."
他們說：“我們還沒放棄。我們每天都研究它。”
So I said, "What? You don't understand these screens and you keep staring at it for two months? What for?"
我說：“什么？你們看不懂這些屏幕但你們還是盯著看了兩個月？為什么？”
So a little girl who you see just now, she raised her hand, and she says to me in broken Tamil and English, she said,
有個小姑娘，就是你們剛才看到的，她舉起了手，用泰米爾語夾雜著蹩腳的英語說：
"Well, apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else."
“唔，除了不恰當的復制DNA分子會導致疾病，別的我們都不知道了。”
