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Years ago, a pretty young kid say on herfather's legs. While she was taught how tocount numbers up, her eyes stared at3 her fatherin confusion.
"Ti Ti, try to memorize all what I've taughtyou just now. They might be the very questionthat the teacher will raise tomorrow in the class;and6 don't be nervous at all."
This was my first time to be in touch withwhat is called math; and Pa's teaching wasregarded as the book from heaven! As a kid Ihad always complained that someone createdmath with the aim of killing me. What a terribleinventor!
While I was ayoung student, Ihad unfortunatelyfailed in manysubjects which weretightly associatedwith math as a resultof my extremeignoranceof math. Math wasas detestableas I wasfat. It had generatedthe endless gloomto me. God hadendowed the rest of my classmates withthe talent for math. I was, if anything, stupidenough and lagged behind. Thus,I had become the frequent visitor to the mathteachers' office, back with moistened eyes andred cheeks. On occasions I would encounter thephysics and chemistry teachers' popping into theoffice; and they were in the fantastic position toget the atmosphere tightened!a: they immediatelytook part in the "show" of how I was beingcriticized by my math teacher without buying aticket. Then, the math teacher had whipped up asupport. They began to agree with one another,shrieking at me together fora pretty long span of time. Ultimately,they remorselessly came to aconclusion-that I had a mental problem.
Remaining uninterested in math alsogets in the way of making friends. Goodstudents were given chances to discuss thedifficulty in math together. Obviously,I would be the last person who joined intheir discussion about math. I could hardlyremove the view of-which influences meeven today-how they were committed totheir study: they would be the last personwho failed to hand in their homework ontime; they would boe thelast person who wentto bed before midnight;and they would be thelast person who wereregularly expected tobe criticized on the spotlike me. The list isendless.
"Why do peoplelearn math? How do wemake use of it in ourlife?"
One day, Iraised this questionwhile I was eating with Xiao Zhang, thecolleague of mine. Xiao Zhang majoredin chemistry for four years. It might bethe sweet-smelling food that had drawnhis attention, or the question I raised wastoo ridiculous to be given anacademic interpretation. Instead of giving aprofessional speech as he used to do, he justresponded cool and humorously:
"To learn math is to count money."
Well, in fact, I don't disagree.
这是一篇很有意思的记叙文。作者以一种自嘲而又幽默的口吻回忆了自己因为害怕数学而在学生时代经历的。种种遭遇以及自己一直以来对这门课所感到的困惑。本文紧紧围绕fear for math这个主题，叙事条理清晰，文字表达准确生动，字里行间充满真切的感情。读来真实可信。尤其是作者对某些细节的描述，例如在办公室受到老师们的轮番攻击，自己和同事间的对话等等，读来让人有身临其境的感觉，由此能与读者产生很深的共鸣，也更能理解作者对数学的恐惧到底由何而生。本文的不足之处在于某些用词搭配欠妥，个别地方仍有中式英语的痕迹。但总的来说是一篇出色，的英文习作，体现了作者在英文方面的天赋和能力。这样的佳作应该是对作者在数学方面的欠缺最好的补足吧。
"Ti Ti, try to memorize all what I've taughtyou just now. They might be the very questionthat the teacher will raise tomorrow in the class;and6 don't be nervous at all."
This was my first time to be in touch withwhat is called math; and Pa's teaching wasregarded as the book from heaven! As a kid Ihad always complained that someone createdmath with the aim of killing me. What a terribleinventor!
While I was ayoung student, Ihad unfortunatelyfailed in manysubjects which weretightly associatedwith math as a resultof my extremeignoranceof math. Math wasas detestableas I wasfat. It had generatedthe endless gloomto me. God hadendowed the rest of my classmates withthe talent for math. I was, if anything, stupidenough and lagged behind. Thus,I had become the frequent visitor to the mathteachers' office, back with moistened eyes andred cheeks. On occasions I would encounter thephysics and chemistry teachers' popping into theoffice; and they were in the fantastic position toget the atmosphere tightened!a: they immediatelytook part in the "show" of how I was beingcriticized by my math teacher without buying aticket. Then, the math teacher had whipped up asupport. They began to agree with one another,shrieking at me together fora pretty long span of time. Ultimately,they remorselessly came to aconclusion-that I had a mental problem.
Remaining uninterested in math alsogets in the way of making friends. Goodstudents were given chances to discuss thedifficulty in math together. Obviously,I would be the last person who joined intheir discussion about math. I could hardlyremove the view of-which influences meeven today-how they were committed totheir study: they would be the last personwho failed to hand in their homework ontime; they would boe thelast person who wentto bed before midnight;and they would be thelast person who wereregularly expected tobe criticized on the spotlike me. The list isendless.
"Why do peoplelearn math? How do wemake use of it in ourlife?"
One day, Iraised this questionwhile I was eating with Xiao Zhang, thecolleague of mine. Xiao Zhang majoredin chemistry for four years. It might bethe sweet-smelling food that had drawnhis attention, or the question I raised wastoo ridiculous to be given anacademic interpretation. Instead of giving aprofessional speech as he used to do, he justresponded cool and humorously:
"To learn math is to count money."
Well, in fact, I don't disagree.
这是一篇很有意思的记叙文。作者以一种自嘲而又幽默的口吻回忆了自己因为害怕数学而在学生时代经历的。种种遭遇以及自己一直以来对这门课所感到的困惑。本文紧紧围绕fear for math这个主题，叙事条理清晰，文字表达准确生动，字里行间充满真切的感情。读来真实可信。尤其是作者对某些细节的描述，例如在办公室受到老师们的轮番攻击，自己和同事间的对话等等，读来让人有身临其境的感觉，由此能与读者产生很深的共鸣，也更能理解作者对数学的恐惧到底由何而生。本文的不足之处在于某些用词搭配欠妥，个别地方仍有中式英语的痕迹。但总的来说是一篇出色，的英文习作，体现了作者在英文方面的天赋和能力。这样的佳作应该是对作者在数学方面的欠缺最好的补足吧。