I Wanna Talk-Radiohead 我与野猪的奇遇

I wanna talk about something I saw in the British Council¹ that is very weird² to me. My name is Jannie, I’ve been working in the British Council Hong Kong for nearly two years. This is a comfy place to work ‘cause it’s very modern the building, it’s clean and we’ve got sunshine from outside the window and surrounding us, there are different international, big hotels and they are like Shangri-la, Conrad and it’s like a business area here, an ordinary office area. Last Sunday I saw a very strange thing here. We were having lesson with the children – they are four years old and we were in a very big classroom, and because it’s very big so we separated³ it into two areas, that means⁴ we have got two classes there, two teachers and two different groups of children. We started to have the lesson as usual, singing, playing and asking them if they are well that day. And suddenly the teaching⁵ assistant from next door came into my classroom and screamed, saying that “There is a pig, there is a pig!” The teacher looked at me and I looked at the teacher, we were like “What, what’s going on?” And then so we left the classroom, we went into the next classroom and then we saw a real pig! It’s a wild pig we believe and it’s very big.  It is black in colour and I can’t believe I could see a pig in, outside the British Council, in such a business centre in Admiralty here. So all the children were very excited to look at the pig and we were so close with the pig, and it’s like the pig was just outside the window, in the garden outside, and we were behind the window inside the classroom. And because of the children, they were so excited and they were screaming and patting⁶ the window and screamed “Piggy, piggy, piggy!” and then we were like, I think we did something that made the pig (feel) excited as well. It started to use its very flat big nose to hit the window, it’s like trying to enter the classroom, to have lesson with us. And we messed around for about 10 minutes and then maybe the pig started to feel bored and so it left the window, walked away. And another strange thing is the pig walked upstairs to another garden because the garden outside is separated into two different areas, downstairs and upstairs, so it walked upstairs. And it’s very strange to me! So after the pig left us, we went back to our classroom and then we had our lesson again but it’s like we all can’t calm down and we were thinking about the piggy, the piggy and the children were screaming “piggy, piggy” and then, it was a very interesting day.

1 council   

n.理事会，委员会，议事机构

参考例句：

• The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.市议会通过法律，禁止散发传单。
• The city council has declared for improving the public bus system.市议会宣布同意改进公共汽车系统。

2 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

3 separated   

adj.分开的v.分开(separate的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• Her parents are separated but not divorced. 她父母分居但没离婚。
• No child should ever be separated from his mother by force. 绝不能强行使任何一个孩子与母亲分开。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

5 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

6 patting   

v.轻拍( pat的现在分词 )；拍成，拍至；表扬，称赞（某人/自己）

参考例句：

• All the members of the team gathered around him, patting him on the back. 全体队员都聚在他周围夸奖他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Through my tea-colored glasses, I saw the man patting his quilt. 见到那人一边用手拍打被子。 来自中国文学部分