一到晚上，满院子电灯 辉煌，嘹亮的读书声非常悦耳。
At night, the whole school compound is ablaze with lights and rings with the pleasant sound of students reading their lessons aloud.
整天和一群年轻的孩子在一块，自己 也好像年轻了许多。
Mixing with the kids all day long has made me feel like many, many years younger.
我和她们\--同散步，一 同谈笑，讲故事给她们听，常常就寝铃摇了，还有躲在我房子里玩的 学生。
I'll gO for a stroll with some girl students, chat gaily with them or tell them stories.
" 孩子们是可爱的，他们天真，坦白，热情，心里想到什么就说什 么，没有丝毫虚伪，没有丝毫勉强。
They are naive, candid and cordial.
这时，使我回忆起北平的生活来了：记得安徽中学，曾有两个最 顽皮的学生，他们有时把黑板刷子悬在天花板上；
Referring to the moral code in Chinese feudalist society which disapproved of persons of opposite sexes mixing freely with each other.
有时把花生壳装在 我的口袋里，还有一次写四个大字"孩子先生"在黑板上"，明明在 讥讽我是个孩子，等到我责备他们时，却改变了口吻： "老师心，我们是说您是孩子的先生，并不是说您是孩子。
Once they chalked up four big characters on the blackboard meaning "'Child Teacher", obviously a dig at me being so young.
" 其实，说来惭愧，那时学生里面，有好几个是比我年纪大的：也 许因为我自己也像个孩子，所以和他们相处得很好。
However, when I took them to task, they tried to explain it away by saying. "Ma'am, we mean that you're a teacher of us children, not that you yourself are a child." As a matter of fact, to my great embarrassment, quite a few of my students then were older than I.
那时他们研究文 消 141 艺的空气特别浓厚，我还记得有一位叫做仇振远，小说写得非常之 好。
I remember that one student, named Qiu Zhenyuan, was particularly good at writing stories.
后来，校长说我只教学生写语体文太不像话"，有意叫我走，于 是我便提出辞职。
Later, when I learned that the headmaster had the intention to dismiss me on the pretext that had been making the grave mistake of calling On the students to use vernacular rather than classical Chinese for composition writing, I readily handed in my resignation on my own initiative.
学生们听到了这个消息就拼命挽留我，因为我的关 系，他们还闹了一场风波，振远和其他的几位同学，居然被开除了。
The students, on hearing the news, tried desperately to urge me to stay on, and even kicked up a school disturbance for my sake.