Chapter 39: Interviews
Chen Qiaoshan pushed his sister who was still stunned beside him, "Greet the guests!" She reacted and hurriedly got up to work.
Chen Xi was originally quite refreshing, obviously with Tao Xiuying's shadow on her body, and she was much better at dealing with people than him, but she hadn't recovered from the shock yet, and completely forgot that there were two guests at home.
"Student Chen, looking at the situation just now, did you already know that you could take the first exam?" Xie Lei directly asked the question in her heart.
"I'm a little sure!" he didn't hide it, and admitted it directly.
"I went to a high school to find out, your last monthly exam was only 590, right? Do you know how much you took this time?"
"Seven hundred and one?"
"Seven hundred and thirty-six!" Xie Lei stared intently, hoping to find some clues from his expression.
"Oh, yes!" His reaction was flat, and Xie Lei didn't notice anything.
In fact, Chen Qiaoshan has already fried the pot in his heart, and this time the fun is really a bit big. In his original expectation, according to the results of previous years, if he took the test of seven hundred and one, he would basically be able to get the first place in Yu Province, and he expected it to be seven hundred and one in his heart, but he didn't expect God to play a joke on him.
The last monthly exam was only 590 points, and the college entrance examination directly increased by 146 points, and everyone will doubt that the results will be announced tomorrow.
After releasing such a big satellite, he was also secretly vigilant, and he must be careful to deal with these reporters, even if it is only a little flawed, what awaits him behind him is endless trouble, but fortunately, he has been prepared.
Chen Xi came over with a few cups of herbal tea at this time and distributed them to everyone, Xie Lei thanked her, but she was thinking about Chen Qiaoshan in her heart, and Chen Qiaoshan was also thinking about her in her heart, so the two chatted tentatively with each other.
Xie Lei's questions are all usual questions, mainly to reduce the psychological defense of the interviewee, to pave the way for the later questions, Chen Qiaoshan is also very easy to deal with, what cognitive learning, take notes frequently, preview in advance, and analyze after class, the whole is a good student's example, and the car talks back and forth.
Reporter Xie gritted his teeth a little, this interview was about to go on, she said that it was obviously ineffective to see the situation for a long time, this is not the answer she wanted at all, he was obviously not an honest child at school, and the bastard in front of him was a hob of meat, and it seemed that everything was under his control from beginning to end.
She said that her mouth was dry, she took a sip of the herbal tea on the table, and frowned slightly, the taste of this tea is strange, not like the tea brewed.
Chen Qiaoshan looked at Xie Lei's puzzled look, smiled and didn't speak. He also had a cup of herbal tea in front of him, picked it up and took a sip, and a familiar taste came to his heart.
He was used to the taste, and he used to drink it in his last life. This herbal tea is not brewed with tea leaves, but with leaves from a tree called Baihua (sound), which is very common in the northwestern part of Hubei Province, but is not available here. In my previous life, my mother would go early every year to pick fresh leaves and dry them, and in the summer, she would take them out to make herbal tea, which tasted fragrant but not bitter, and was very heat-relieving.
The leaves of the Chen family's tea were taken by Tao Xiuying from her mother's family, she was originally from Hubei Province, and after marrying, the Chen family's life and diet are many of the habits of the two places, but Chen Qiaoshan is most impressed by the cup of herbal tea in his hand, or the taste of his previous life, the taste of his mother, thinking of this, he can't help but feel a little gloomy, I don't know what happened to his parents in his previous life.
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"Why did your grades improve so much in the college entrance examination?"
Chen Qiaoshan was not surprised, he already knew that he couldn't escape, thought about it and said slowly: "Actually, there is no fuss, one depends on strength, the second depends on luck, and the third has to be talented!"
"Did you rely on luck, strength or talent?"
"Both!"
"Your monthly exam in your third year of high school is basically hovering around 600 points!"
Chen Qiaoshan straightened his waist and said leisurely: "This is nothing strange!" After that, he pointed to Chen Xi beside him and introduced: "This is my third sister, the fourth in the city in the high school entrance examination, and now I am in the first year of high school, and I am in the top three in each exam, and my fourth sister is in the third year of junior high school, and I am the first in the grade every time!" He didn't mention the fifth, and the results of the key fifth were really not on the table.
Chen Qiaoshan didn't wait for her to speak, and said: "Of course, my luck is also good, I have encountered many question types in the college entrance examination, so it is not surprising to have such results!"
Xie Lei was helpless, everyone in the family was a top student, and this reason was really strong, but she thought of what she heard from Zhang Qingshan yesterday about his English composition, and asked: "Your English is almost full marks, and the composition is deducted two points because of the use of slang, can I ask who you learned your spoken English from?"
Chen Qiaoshan was a little surprised, could this person have read his own test papers? Isn't the marking work confidential, and this reporter is too powerful, right? But he doesn't have time to think about it now, "Self-study, listen more, think more, and talk more!"
"That's all?" Xie Lei obviously didn't believe his words, she had also studied English, and understood that she could only learn dumb English from books, and it was hard to believe him with his situation in a high school.
Chen Qiaoshan didn't refute, thought about it and read it directly with familiarity:
Long、years、ago,a、church、stands、near,
By、the、road、an、ancient、cross.
No、marble,no、conventional、phrase;
On、limestone、quarried、near、the、spot
By、his、command、these、words、are、cut:
Cast、a、cold、eye
On、life,on、death.
Horseman,pass、by!
Xie Lei looked at Chen Qiaoshan sitting in front of her, she couldn't judge his English level, her English level was not good, she had worked for several years, and what should have been lost had already been returned to the teacher, but judging from the fluency of his recitation, it was not bad.
Chen Xi asked curiously, "Second brother, are you reading English poetry?
Chen Qiaoshan is not surprised, ordinary people can only paraphrase foreign poetry translation, it is not possible to experience the beauty in the middle, poetry translation is a very difficult technical job, ordinary people really can't do it, I don't believe you try to translate ancient poetry into English, that is called a coke.
There are many ready-made examples in reality, among the four famous Chinese novels, "Journey to the West" has been translated by Westerners as a monkey story, a monkey adventure, and "Water Margin" Even more fucked, there is a story called one hundred and five men and three women, the most reliable of which is translated by the Nobel Prize winner Pearl Sai, who is the daughter of an American missionary who spent the first half of her life in China, and the translation is called "Brothers in the Four Seas", which is quite a bit of a hero, which is not bad, and some are translated as criminals living by the water, fugitives by the swamp, all men are brothers, and so on.
"Translating foreign poetry into Chinese is not so simple, you need to understand the connotation of poetry, try to restore the beauty of poetry when translating, this is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the last sentence is his epitaph - cold eyes see through life and death, knights fearlessly advance, you have to directly paraphrase the past - cold glances, alive, dead, knights pass by, it must be very weird, there is no beauty at all. ”
He liked this poem very much in his previous life, and the poet Yeats was also very interesting, he fell in love with a woman, and he repeatedly asked for it, but he always insisted on that love in his heart, and perhaps it was these reasons that made his life full of romanticism.
Chen Xi has always had an unreal feeling since she knew that the second brother was the first in Yu Province, and she would hear him skillfully reciting English poems, as well as this explanation, which broke her long-term cognition, and looked at Chen Qiaoshan's gaze became more and more strange, is this still the second brother who is honest and silent?
Xie Lei was also a little helpless in her heart, although she still had doubts, but she didn't dare to ask, she was really afraid that Chen Qiaoshan would communicate with her directly in English, with her current level of English, it was estimated that everyone would be thrown to her grandmother's house, thinking of this, she asked the last question of the day: "How did your foot hurt?"
Chen Qiaoshan was a little puzzled, hadn't she already asked, did she know about saving people, not to mention that it was really possible, otherwise she wouldn't have taken pictures, thinking of this, he said tentatively: "I stepped on the glass ballast!"
"I heard from the townspeople that someone rescued a man who fell into the water in the river the day before yesterday, and his foot was injured, is that person?"
Chen Qiaoshan secretly said that this was indeed the case, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly saw Chen Weiguo pushing his bicycle into the yard, and he couldn't help but wonder, why did he come back at this time?