Bessie is only five .She does not go to school ,and of cours

英语翻译
Problem 11:Best Grass [Rob Kolstad,2008]
Bessie is planning her day of munching tender spring grass and is gazing
out upon the pasture which Farmer John has so lovingly partitioned into a
grid with R (1

英语翻译
Unforgettable Miss Bessie
She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 110 pounds,but Miss Bessie was a towering presence in the classroom.She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf1 and think for a few foolish days that I liked it.From 1938 to 1942,when I attended Bernard High School in McMinnville,Tenn.,she taught me English,history,civics—and a lot more than I realized.
I shall never forget the day she scolded me into reading Beowulf.
“But Miss Bessie,” I complained,“I ain’t much interested in it.”
Her large brown eyes became daggerish slits.“Boy,” she said,“how dare you say ‘ain’t’ to me!I’ve taught you better than that.”
“Miss Bessie,” I pleaded,“I’m trying to make first-string end on the football team,and if I go around saying ‘it isn’t’ and ‘they aren’t,’ the guys are gonna laugh me off the squad.”
“Boy,” she responded,“you’ll play football because you have guts.But do you know what really takes guts?Refusing to lower your standards to those of the crowd.It takes guts to say you’ve got to live and be somebody fifty years after all the football games are over.”