异类之不一样的成功启示录 第184期:玛丽塔的生活(上)

 　　"I wake up at 5:45 a.m. to get a head start," she says. "I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school if I'm running late.

　　“为了早到学校，我早上5点45分起床，”她说。“接着刷牙、洗澡。如果我起晚了，我会在学校吃早餐。

　　Usually get yelled¹ at because I'm taking too long. I meet my friends Diana and Steven at the bus stop, and we get the number one bus."

　　如果我花费时间太多，我的母亲就会对我嚷嚷个没完。然后，我在公共汽车站和朋友黛安娜、史蒂芬汇合，一起搭乘1路公共汽车上学。”

　　A 5:45 wake up is fairly² typical of KIPP students, especially given the long bus and subway commutes³ that many have to get to school.

　　早上5点45分起床对KIPP学生来说是相当普遍的，尤其是那些需要搭乘公共汽车和地铁去上学的人。

　　Levin, at one point, went into a seventh grade music class with 70 kids in it and asked for a show of hands on when the students woke up.

　　李文曾走进七年级的一个班级调查，这个班有70个学生，正在上音乐课。他用学生举手的方式来统计起床时间，

　　A handful⁴ said they woke up after six. Three quarters said they woke up before six, and almost half said they woke up before 5:30.

　　只有很少的一部分学生承认他们6点后醒来，其余四分之三的学生都说自己在6点前醒来，而几乎一半的学生都表示自己在5点30分前醒来。

　　One classmate of Marita's, a boy named Jose, said he sometimes wakes up at three or four a.m., finished his homework from the night before, and then "goes back to sleep for a bit."

　　何塞是玛丽塔的男同学，他说为了完成前一晚上的家庭作业，有时三、四点就已经醒来，作业完成之后才“可以回去小睡一会儿。”

　　Marita went on: I leave school at 5p.m., and if I don't lollygag around, then I'll be home around five thirty. Then I say hi to my mom really quickly to start my homework.

　　玛丽塔继续说道：“我会在下午5点离开学校，如果不浪费时间的话，我会在5：30到家。我迅速和妈妈打个招呼后，就开始做功课。

　　And if it's not a lot of homework that day, it will take me two to three hours and I'll be done around nine p.m. Or if we have essays, then I'll be done like at ten or ten thirty.

　　如果作业不太多，我大约会用2到3个小时完成，一直到晚上9点。而如果还要写作文的话，我就可能要到10点或者10点30分才能完成。

　　Sometimes my mom makes me break for dinner. I tell her I want to go straight through, but she says I have to eat.

　　有时候，我妈妈会让我休息吃完晚饭之后再做作业。我说先不吃，但她要求我必须吃。

　　So around eight, she makes me break for dinner for, like, a half hour, and then I get back to work.

　　此时已经晚上8点钟了，我们用半个小时吃完晚饭之后，我就回去继续学习。

　　Then, usually after that, my mom wants to hear about school, but I have to make it quick because I have to get in bed by eleven. So I get all my stuff⁵ ready and then I get into bed.

　　我妈妈总希望听我讲一些在学校的事情， 所以我只能快速地讲完，否则我就不能在11点之前上床睡觉。我准备好第二天上课的东西之后上床。

　　I tell her about the day and what happened, and by the time we are finished, she is on the brink⁶ of sleeping so that's probably around eleven-fifteen.

　　告诉她这一天所有发生的事情。说完这些，大概也到11点15分了，她也就很困了。

　　Then I go to sleep, and the next morning, we do all over again.

　　然后，我们睡觉，第二天早晨，我们重复前一天的事情。

　　We are in the same room. But it's a huge bedroom and you can split⁷ it into two. We have beds on other side. Me and my mom are very close.

　　我和妈妈住在同一间卧室里面，房间很大，足以放下两张床。我和妈妈离得很近。”

1 yelled   

v.叫喊，号叫，叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
• The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着，希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 fairly   

adv.公正地，正当地；相当；完全，简直

参考例句：

• I think I was quite fairly treated by the police.我认为警察对我非常公正。
• It fairly destroyed the machine.它将那部机器完全毁了。

3 commutes   

上下班路程( commute的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She commutes from Oxford to London every day. 她每天上下班往返于牛津与伦敦之间。
• Barbara lives in Oxford and commutes. 芭芭拉住在牛津，通勤往来。

4 handful   

n.一把；少量，少数，一小撮

参考例句：

• We invited 30 people, but only a handful came.我们邀请了30人，但是只到了几个人。
• He pulled out a handful of coins from his pocket.他从口袋里掏出一把硬币。

5 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

6 brink   

n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘，边沿

参考例句：

• The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
• The two countries were poised on the brink of war.这两个国家处于交战的边缘。

7 split   

n.劈开，裂片，裂口；adj.分散的；v.分离，分开，劈开

参考例句：

• Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了？
• The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。