密歇根新闻广播 上课捣乱的孩子到底是麻烦还是警钟

 

Think back to grade school. Remember that one kid who was always disrupting¹ the class? The one who talked out of turn, cracked jokes, and was always getting sent to the principal’s office. In other words, the class troublemaker².

Well, it's exactly those kind of kids who are the subjects of the new book Troublemakers³: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School. Author Carla Shalaby, a research specialist at the University of Michigan School of Education, spoke⁴ with Stateside about the book.

Shalaby's work training teachers takes her into classrooms all over the country, where she began to take an interest in the students who get labeled as troublemakers.

"You can find at least one in every classroom or every school," she said. "I was working, supporting new teachers in those classrooms, and of course those students stand out everywhere I go."

She shadowed four "troublemakers" both inside and outside the classroom for a year, observing their behavior.

Listen to the full conversation above to hear what Shalaby learned about those troublemakers, and what she thinks we can learn from them.

1 disrupting   

使混乱，扰乱( disrupt的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting. 示威者成功地扰乱了会议。
• Wage claims had led to one strike after another, disrupting every section of the community. 由工资问题引起的罢工浪潮此起彼伏，扰乱了社会秩序。

2 troublemaker   

n.惹是生非者，闹事者，捣乱者

参考例句：

• I would hate you to think me a troublemaker.我不愿你认为我是个搬弄是非的人。
• Li Yang has always been a troublemaker.李阳总是制造麻烦。

3 troublemakers   

n.惹是生非者，捣乱者( troublemaker的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He was employed to chuck out any troublemakers. 他受雇把捣乱者赶走。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers. 她不假思索地认定这些男孩子是捣蛋鬼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。