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One day in 1965, when I was a librarian at View Ridge School in Seattle ,a fourth-grade teacher approached me.She had a student who finished his work before all the othersand needed a challenge. "Could he help in the library?" she asked.I said, "Send him along." 1965年，我在西雅图维尤里奇学校当图书馆员时，一天，一个四年级老师来找到我说，她有个学生总是最先完成功课，他需要干点别的对他有挑战性的工作。“他可以来图书馆帮帮忙吗？”她问。“带他来吧！”我说。 Soon a slight, sandy-haired boy in jeans and a T-shirt appeared. 不一会儿，一个穿牛仔裤和圆领衫，长着沙色头发的清瘦男孩进来了。 I told him about the Dewey Decimal System for shelving books.He picked up the idea immediately.Then I showed him a stack of cards for long-overdue booksthat I was beginning to think had actually been returnedbut were miss-shelved with the wrong cards in them.He said, "Is it kind of a detective job?"I answered "yes". And he became an unrelenting sleuth. 我向他讲了杜威十进制分类藏书法。他很快明白了。然后，我让他看了一堆卡片，上面的书目都是逾期很久未归还的。但现在我怀疑这些书其实已还，只是夹错了卡片和放错了地方，需要查找核实一下。“这是否有点像侦探工作？”他问。我说是的。 He had found three books with wrong cardsby the time his teacher opened the door and announced,"Time for recess!" He argued for finishing the job;she made the case for fresh air. She won. | 
