《中英對照讀新聞》Teacher says he hates his job in essay 教師撰寫文表示痛恨自己的工作

◎陳宜君

A public school teacher fed up with his students' behavior found a way to berate them in the context of a class assignment. The teacher wrote and distributed a two-page essay to his fourth-grade students saying he hated his job, blasting the children's “animal behavior,” and even identifying some of them by name.

一名受夠學生行為的公立學校老師找到在作業中教訓學生的方法。這位老師撰寫並分發一篇兩頁的論說文給他所教的四年級學生，表示他討厭自己的工作，嚴厲抨擊這些小孩的「獸行」，甚至還點出某些學生的名字。

Titled “I Wonder Why?” the essay ended with an assignment for each student to write a 200-word essay on how the teacher should treat them. “Make sure you tell me why I need to treat you a certain way,” the assignment reads. “I want to make sure that I no longer cheat and act unfairly.”

以「我想知道為什麼？」為題的這篇論說文文末，要求每位學生撰寫兩百字論說文，闡述老師應該如何對待他們的作業。「務必告訴我為什麼我必須以某種方式對待你們，」作業如此寫道。「我想確定我不再有作弊與不正當的行為。」

In the essay, the teacher detailed the loud, disobedient behavior of his students on a particular day and how some ridiculed him while others accused him of cheating for a competing class during a spelling bee. The teacher said he was tired because pain from a root canal had kept him awake most of the previous night.

在該文中，這位老師詳述學生在某一個特定日子喧嘩、不聽話行為，以及某些學生如何嘲笑他，其他人則指控他在拼字比賽中替對手班級作弊。這名老師表示，他感覺疲累，因為根管疼痛讓他前一夜幾乎都睡不著。

Dictionary-新聞辭典

fed up with：片語，對…感到厭煩或不滿。亦可說成 fed up about或 fed up of。例句：I'm fed up of waiting for him -- I'm going home! （我等他等得不耐煩–我要回家了！）

detail：動詞，詳細說明或列舉。例句：Could you detail all your expenses on this form? （能否請你把所有開支詳列在這張表格上？）本字當作動詞時，亦有選派之意；例句：He detailed three soldiers to look for water. （他派遣三名士兵去找水）

spelling bee：拼字比賽。

root canal：醫學名詞，牙齒內的組織–根管。