队员一旦选定,比赛就马上开始。因为没有大人监督,所以即便对犯规或其他问题产生分歧,也只能由队员自行解决。虽然有时会起些争执,但我还真不记得发生过什么激烈过火的情形。
Thinking back on those days gives rise to two reflections.
遥想当年,我有两点感悟。
The first relates to the tremendous demographic and social change which has taken place in my home town and most other parts of America in the past 50 years.
首先,过去50年,我的故乡和美国其他大部分地方的人口和社会结构都发生了巨变。
My home town is a suburb of Chicago, and was then predominantly white and middle class.
我的老家在芝加哥郊区,那里曾是中产阶级白人的聚居地。
In primary school, the entire student body lived in that town and was white, and included a handful of recent immigrants from Europe whose English was not yet fluent. Our teachers were mostly Catholic nuns, and in hindsight I’m not sure how many of them had college degrees.
上小学时,学生都是住在镇上的白人,只有寥寥几个欧洲新移民,而且英文还不太灵光。老师大多是天主教修女,事后想想也不知道她们有几位上过大学。
My secondary school, located in the same town, had a student body of roughly 1500. We had a small handful of blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans, but the vast majority were white. A fairly significant number of students lived in “the city” and commuted up to an hour by school bus. As a result, the student body was slightly more diverse socio-economically than that of my primary school. Compared to primary school, academics were much more demanding and competitive, as were extracurricular activities, including sports.
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