三个月之后我才懂的事短文★★★★★
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Last winter four of us wrote a short paper for our town: where children walk to school, and where they do not.
去年冬天我们四个人给镇子上写了一份很短的东西：孩子从哪儿走着去上学，从哪儿不敢走。
I had the best marks, so I did the writing. The others counted the streets and drew the map.
我分数最好，所以由我来写。其他人去数街道、画那张图。
For two months I thought I was doing the work and they were helping me.
有两个月我以为活是我干的，他们是来帮我的。
Then one of them, a woman with two jobs, said quietly that if I wrote everything it would sound like one person, and nobody on the street would sign it.
后来其中一个——她同时打两份工——很轻地说，如果什么都我写，读起来就只有一个人，街上没人会签这个名字。
She was right. Our use was not the words. It was that four different people had walked those streets and agreed.
她说得对。我们的用处不在那些字。在于四个不一样的人走过那些街，并且说到了一块儿。
We began to sit together each Thursday and read out what we had found. My sentences got worse and the paper got better.
我们开始每周四坐到一起，各自念自己找到的东西。我的句子变差了，那份东西变好了。
I do not think a group is people who are good at the same thing. It is people who can be wrong in different places.
我不觉得小组是一群人刚好擅长同一件事。小组是一群人能在不一样的地方出错。