美丽的老师

On this Friday after Thanksgiving, it's time for our Making a Difference report. At least once a week we profile someone who is doing just that and tonight is Betty, Betty Lewing of Lufkin,Texas, who does what 4 million other Americans do each day. She teaches school and happens to think that reading can change a life. Our report from NBC's Don Teague.

(Does anybody know what that is…)

You should know at the outset, Betty. Lewing doesn’t think she’s newsworthy.

(Which one of those does it mean…)

After all she is just an ordinary teacher.

(I’m not doing anything that millions of other teachers don’t do everyday. (Why do you think…)

But consider what brought her here. After her daughter was kidnapped and raped¹ 7 years ago, Lewing went to work at a nearby prison hoping to learn why people turn to crime. She discovered many of the inmates² couldn’t read.

(And doesn’t that make sense…)

And decided³ then and there to fight crime by teaching struggling high schoolers to read before it’s too late.

(So I believe that God led me on this direction, that this is where I’m supposed to be and what I’m supposed to do...and we will tell you when a real test starts. )

Today Lewing has taught 600 teenagers with trouble reading to read better. (It was a group of small…)

Kids like 16-year-old Laura Kirkland who thought dyslexia would always hold her back.

(Before I would, I hated reading out loud, and now it’s so much easier to get in there and read.)

It’s true Betty Lewing considers it's critical her students learn to read what's in these books but sometimes she says it’s more important that they simply understand there're someone on the other end of the line.

(My phone rings throughout the night frequently. And it’s normally kids that, or might be in the situation where they need help.)

Lewing has literally⁴ rescued students at 2 in the morning, others…
(And Jorvorski again...touch down..)

Like Texas A&M running back Jorvorski Lane, a former student just needed encouragement.

(She'll say: Jorvorski. And I'll look, and she says: you know, er, I love you, how I would be like a man)

Newsworthy? Maybe not,but Betty Lewing's passion for literate⁵ kids
(What bigger rewards could you ask for?) is anything but ordinary.

Don Teague,NBC News,Lufkin,Taxas

1 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

2 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 literate   

n.学者；adj.精通文学的，受过教育的

参考例句：

• Only a few of the nation's peasants are literate.这个国家的农民中只有少数人能识字。
• A literate person can get knowledge through reading many books.一个受过教育的人可以通过读书而获得知识。