英语翻译

英语翻译
Words That Changes a Life
Not a big moment,perhaps,yet small moments sometimes last a very long time.And a few words – though they may mean little at the time to the people who say them can have enormous power.
As a boy,Dalkoff was terribly insecure and shy.He had few friends and no self-confidence.One day in October 1965,his secondary-school English teacher,Ruth Brauch,gave the class an assignment.The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird.Now they were to write their own chapter that would follow the last chapter of the novel.
Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it in.Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote,or what grade Mrs.Brauch gave him.What he does remember – what he will never forget – are the four words Mrs.Brauch wrote in the margin of the paper:“This is good writing”.
Four words.They changed his life.
“Until I read those words,I had no idea of who I was or what I was going to be,” he said.Over the rest of that year in school,he wrote many short stories and always brought them to school for Mrs.Brauch to evaluate.She was encouraging,though and honest.“She was just what I needed,” Dalkoff said.
He was named co-editor of his second-school newspaper.His confidence grew; his horizons broadened,he started off on a successful,fulfilling life.For his 30th secondary-school reunion,Dalkoff went back and visited Mrs.Brauch,who had retired.He told her what her four words had done for him.Mrs.Brauch was especially moved by the story.“At that moment I think we both realized that Mrs.Brauch had cast an incredibly long shadow,” he said.
“This is good writing.” So few words.They can change everything.