四减四等于几

张亦荣

[英语原文]

One day，the teacher inquired Peter：“How much is four minus four？”Peter was tongue-tired. The teacher got angry and said：“What a fool！ You see， if I put four coins in vour pocket， but there is a hole in your pocket and all of them leak out，now what is left in vour pocket？”“The hole.”replied Peter.

[漢语翻译]

一天，老师问彼得：“4减4等于几？”彼得张口结舌答不上来。老师生气地说：“真笨！你想，我要是往你口袋里放4个硬币，而你的口袋上有个窟窿，硬币全漏掉了，那么，你口袋里还剩下什么？”“窟窿。”彼得答道。

[留言板]

老师想用举例子的方式教导学生4减4等于几，却得到一个啼笑皆非的答案。同学们是不是也会因为被老师批评，而窘迫到连特别简单的问题都答不出来？

（小博士）