1、 5000 单词， 21800 英文字符， 7900 汉字 Learning to Dance（ Excerpts） Bathroom Dance When I try on one of the nurses caps my friend Helen nearly dies. Oh! she cries, take it off! Ill die! Oh if you could see yourself, Oh! she creams and Miss Besser looks at me with six years of reproach stored in the look. We
2、are all sewing Helens uniform in the Domestic Science room. Three pin-striped dress with long sleeves, buttoned from the wrist to the elbow, double tucks and innumerable button holes; fourteen white aprons and fourteen little caps which have to be drawn up to make those neat little caps which have t
3、o be rubbed along the seam with a wet toothbrush before the tapes can be drawn up to make those neat little pleats at the back. Helen looks so sweet in hers. I cant help wishing, when I see myself in the cap, that I am not going to do nursing after all. Helen ordered her material before persuading m
4、e to go to the hospital with her. So, when I order mine it is too late to have my uniform made by the class. It is the end of term, the end of our last year at school. My material is sent home. Mister Jackson tells me, in the last Sunday evening meeting, that he wants the deepest responsibility for
5、standards and judgments in his pupils, especially those who are about to leave the happy family which is how he likes to think of his school. We must not, he says, believe in doing just what we please. We must always believe in the nourishment of the inner life and in the loving discipline of person
6、al relationships. We must always be concerned with the relentless search for truth at whatever cost to tradition and externals. For some reason I keep thinking about and remembering something about the reed bending and surviving and the sturdy oak blown down. My mother says the stuff is pillow ticking. She feels there is nothing refined about nursing. The arrival of the striped material has upset her. She says she has other things in mind for me, traveling on the Continent, Europe, sh
