Beyond pity at seeing residents of a rich, proud country scavenging for food, hoarding bottled water and huddling for shelter on schoolroom floors, it was hard not to feel admiration as well.

看到一个富裕而骄傲国家的居民四处寻找食物、储藏瓶装饮用水和避难于学校教室，在地板上缩成一团的情形，除了同情之外很难不感到钦佩。

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One day, all of a sudden, he proposed that each one in turn should jump off the bench in our schoolroom.

一天，他突然提议大家都轮流从教室的椅子上跳下去。

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You know you can't leave a schoolroom without raising your hand, no matter where you're going.

你要知道无论你要去哪里，你都不能在没有举手示意的情况下就离开教室的吗？

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Paul found a schoolroom even worse after a night at the theater or the concert hall.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Just when I tell you to go, you leave me. You know you can't leave a schoolroom without raising your hand, no matter where you're going."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

When I set up the schoolroom with my stuffed animals in my bedroom, I became a teacher.

FORBES: Living The Dream

Cumulatively, these resulted in the famous projection map of Gerardus Mercator in 1569, a plan of the world that still forms the basis of schoolroom teaching and Google Maps.

WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes

The indiscriminate carnage in Tucson looks more like the killings by a deranged student at Virginia Tech in 2007, or the schoolroom atrocity at Columbine in 1999, than the assassinations of the Kennedys or Martin Luther King.

ECONOMIST: The Tucson shootings