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A Math Teacher's Story
數學老師的魔法
Years ago, I was taking an algebra class over the summer, and had a teacher who liked to reminisce about his past with funny stories. He relates that he had been a math teacher in the Air Force, where it was his duty to force sleepy young recruits to stay awake for an hour of math at 8:00 in the morning in a large, warm, dimly-lit auditorium. One day, he came into the auditorium and saw his class even sleepier and less attentive than usual. He realized that something drastic would have to be done.
記得多年前，一位非常喜歡緬懷過去，滿腹幽默故事的老師教了我整個夏天的代數課。一次，他講起了從前執教的經歷。他曾是空軍部隊的數學老師，每天早晨八點要到一個寬敞、溫暖而光線昏暗的大禮堂上一個小時的課。他要讓那群昏昏欲睡的新兵學生保持清醒，認真聽講。有一天，他剛走進教室就發現學生們睡眼惺忪，無精打采，比平時還糟。他意識到必須采取強有效的措施了。
Now this classroom was very old, and the blackboards, which had been nailed on to the walls with old black iron nails, had become loose over the years. As a result, these black nails jutted almost invisibly from the blackboard and this teacher kept banging his hands on them while erasing the board. He decided to put them to good use.
當時，他上課的教室十分陳舊。黑板是用黑鐵釘釘在墻上的，但在使用多年后已經松動了，所以原本突出的黑鐵釘現在幾乎看不到了，再加上，老師邊擦黑板邊把釘子往里按緊，這下就更隱蔽了。他決定要好好利用這幾樣道具。
