考砸的那天晚上短文★★★★★
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Last year I failed the test I had worked hardest for.
去年我考砸了的那门，正是我下的功夫最多的。
I had read every page twice, so I thought reading was the same as knowing.
每一页我都读过两遍，所以我把读过当成会了。
That evening I did not eat with my family, and I said the paper was too hard. My brother said nothing for a while.
那天晚上我没跟他们一起吃饭，我说那张卷子出得太难。我哥半天没说话。
Then he asked me to explain one page to him the way you speak to a small child. I could not.
然后他让我把其中一页讲给他听，就像跟小小孩讲话那样。我讲不出来。
That was the end of my excuse and the start of a better way to work.
我的借口到那儿就完了，更好的办法也从那儿开始。
Now I say a page out loud to somebody who does not know it, because it shows me what I only looked at.
现在我念一页给一个不懂的人听，因为它让我看清自己只是眼睛走过、没懂。