（北师大版新教材）高中英语选择性必修一课文及翻译Unit 1Lesson 1 Teachers第一课 老师My teacher我的老师I haven’t seen Mr Jenkins since I left school, but I often think about him. Iwasn’t very good at most school subjects before I met Mr Jenkins. I suppose I was abit lazy, especially in maths. The only thing I can remember from school maths is thatthe angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees! But when I was 15 and went into MrJenkins’ class, I really became interested in a subject for the first time.虽然离开学校之后再也没有见过詹金斯先生，但我经常想起他。在遇到詹金斯先生之前，大多数科目我都不是很擅长。我想我那时候有点懒惰，特别是在数学方面。我唯一还记得的数学课内容是三角形的内角和 180 度！但是在 15 岁那年，我走进了詹金斯先生的课堂，第一次对一个学科真正产生了兴趣。Before Mr Jenkins taught me, science had simply been a subject full of strangewords to me. I had no idea what hydrogen was, and I didn’t really want to know,either! I found it all so boring and difficult. But Mr Jenkins made everythinginteresting. He used to explain things which seemed difficult with lots of practicalexamples and in simple language. One day, he took us outside, and we built a rocket!I remember that he let me pour some fuel into the rocket, and then another studentlit a match to set it off. It was great fun.在上詹金斯先生的课之前，科学课对我来说就是一堆奇怪的词语。我不知道氢是什么，而且也不想知道！我觉得这些东西既无聊又难以理解。但詹金斯先生让一切变得有趣起来。他结合很多实际例子用简单的语言解释看似很难的知识。有一天，他把我们带到户外，一起制造了一枚火箭！我记得他让我把燃料倒进火箭，然后另一名学生点燃了一根火柴发射火箭。这非常有趣。I know that I wasn’t a willing student, but I wasn't slow to learn new things. Theproblem was that I lacked confidence in myself. Mr Jenkins made me feel...
