Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.
不久前，Robin读到过，大多数对话都是不用语言传达的。
She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the statistic had floated back into her life, this time with actual statistics and in a fun little infographic, she’d wondered who these people were, for whom words and sentences and voices were only the lesser part of a conversation, dethroned by the nonverbal, tone of voice and gestures and expressions.
她当时驳回了它，理由是她自己在没有明确告知的情况下无法猜测人们的话和意思，当统计数据回到她的生活中时，这次是实际统计数据和有趣的小信息图表，她想知道这些人是谁，对他们来说，单词、句子和声音只是对话的较小部分，被非语言、语气、手势和表达所否定。
It couldn’t be her, she’d decided, and gone on with her life.
她决定，这不可能是她，并继续她的生活。
But then she’d met her little monsters and had to re-evaluate her own biases. K-1C were a rowdy bunch, hard to teach and sometimes very hard to love.
但后来她遇到了她的小怪物，不得不重新评估自己的偏见。 K-1C是一群吵闹的人，很难教，有时也很难爱。
They liked arguing with each other, and sometimes with her, chattering away in their high little voices, and right from the beginning she’d realised that she’d been wrong. It didn’t take a genius to realise that shouting meant anger which meant pushing would follow, which meant tears, stammered explanations she didn’t understand, and punishments.
他们喜欢互相争论，有时也喜欢和她争论，用他们高亢的小声音喋喋不休，从一开始，她就意识到自己错了。 不需要天才就能意识到，喊叫意味着愤怒，这意味着推搡会随之而来，这意味着眼泪，她听不懂的结巴解释，以及惩罚。
For her own ease she’d decided to skip the ending of the routine, nipping the shouting in the bud before it could become a frustrated attempt to understand.
为了她自己的轻松，她决定跳过例行公事的结尾，在尖叫声变成沮丧的尝试理解之前，把喊叫扼杀在萌芽状态。
But surely, she’d thought at the beginning, fresh off the boat and green, the colourful statistics reappearing in her life surely it wasn’t like this. Surely a conversation and the nuances to it needed more than an understanding of what a shift in volume meant.
但可以肯定的是，她一开始就认为，刚下船，绿色，她生活中重新出现的丰富多彩的统计数据肯定不是这样的。 当然，对话及其细微差别需要的不仅仅是理解音量变化意味着什么。
She still carries this belief, standing in front of a class of degenerates, each louder than the last, each with a grasp on English so poor as to be non-existent.
她仍然抱着这种信念，站在一类堕落者面前，每个人都比上一个更大声，每个人都对英语的掌握如此之差，以至于不存在。
She’s been trying and failing to get them to focus in class since they woke up, and the hard stare, the warning, only worked until the repercussions failed to appear. She’s made kids stand up, pointing and gesturing to the most stubborn, Robbie until he reluctantly complied, though not without a barrage of Chinese, his little face scrunched in disgust, that told her just what he thought of her decision.
自从他们醒来以来，她一直试图让他们在课堂上集中注意力，但都失败了，而严厉的凝视，警告，直到影响没有出现才奏效。 她让孩子们站起来，指着最固执的Robbie打手势，直到他不情愿地答应了，尽管并非没有一连串的中国人，他的小脸因厌恶而皱了皱，这告诉她他对她的决定的看法。
A cry from another student, and when she turns to look Merry is enraged, caught in the act of shoving Scott away from her.
另一个学生的哭声，当她转过身来看着Merry时，她被抓住了把Scott从她身边推开的行为。
She manages to piece together what happened through a pantomime of gestures.
她设法通过手势的哑剧拼凑出所发生的事情。
Merry pretend stamps on her own foot while pointing at Scott, which he vehemently denies by shaking his head so violently Robin is afraid it might fly off his neck.
Merry在指着Scott时假装踩在自己的脚上，他猛烈地否认了，Robin非常猛烈地摇了搖頭，害怕它可能會從他的脖子上飛下來。
Then it’s Scott’s time to shine, his gestures even more intense than Merry’s, his eyes on Robin to make sure she understands.
然后是Scott大放异彩的时候了，他的手势甚至比Merry更强烈，他的眼睛盯着Robin，以确保她理解。
Despite being caught in the act, Merry still tries to deny her role in the exchange, jabbering away in increasingly strident Chinese until Robin holds up a hand to stop her in her tracks. Problem understood and resolved with a begrudging “sorry” from either side, and the next time they begin to fuss all Robin needs to do is stand by the behaviour board and look hard at them.
尽管被当场抓住，Merry仍然试图否认她在交流中的角色，用越来越尖锐的中文喋喋不休，直到Robin举起一只手阻止她。 问题被理解并解决了，双方都表示不情愿的“抱歉”，下次他们开始大惊小怪时，Robin需要做的就是站在行为委员会旁边，狠狠地看着他们。
A temporary lull of noise fills the classroom, and Robin jumps on the opportunity to actually teach the kids the content. It’s easy stuff for them, things they’ve learnt before, and a review gives her the chance to make it fun and check their knowledge.
教室里充满了暂时的噪音，Robin抓住机会真正教孩子们内容。 对他们来说，这很容易，是他们以前学过的东西，复习让她有机会让它变得有趣并检查他们的知识。
She shows the first picture, a car, and all but Jacob put their hands on imaginary steering wheels, mumble the answer.
她展示了第一张照片，一辆汽车，除了Jacob之外，所有人都把手放在想象中的方向盘上，喃喃自语着答案。
She rewards the best, which just meant the loudest, and sees the rest of the students take note.
她奖励最好的，这意味着最响亮的，并看到其他学生记下。
The next time she shows a picture, the gesture and the answer are both overstated, yelled so loudly she winces. Placing a finger on her lips, they give the answer again in a whisper.
下次她展示图片时，手势和答案都被夸大了，大声喊叫，她畏縮了。 他们把手指放在她的嘴唇上，低声地再次给出答案。
‘What is this?’ she asks them, showing a picture of an item they learnt long ago. They stare at it blankly, and if they know the fear of being wrong is enough to keep them silent.
“这是什么？” 她问他们，展示一张他们很久以前学到的物品的照片。 他们茫然地盯着它，如果他们知道害怕犯错就足以让他们保持沉默。
She motions for students to put their hands up, before making the gesture linked to the picture, and this time the recognition is immediate, hands shooting into the air.
她示意学生举起双手，然后做出与图片相关的手势，这次识别是即时的，双手射向空中。
A disappointed look at Merry when she shouts the answer out is enough to make her sit up properly and put her hand up, and she shrugs at Merry’s humph when Robin picks another student, praising him for sitting well and setting the standard for the students.
当Merry大喊出答案时，她失望地看着她，这足以让她坐好并举起手来，当Robin挑选另一个学生时，她对Merry的驼背耸肩，称赞他坐得很好，为学生树立了标准。
They begin to become noisy again, and with a clap Robin ends the lesson and calls the students’ attention back to her.
他们又开始吵闹了，罗宾拍手叫好，结束了课程，让学生们的注意力回到她身上。
They know the drill after lessons, but she still reinforces it, using her hands to make her instructions clear. Go to the toilet, with a point towards the bathroom. Wash your hands with soap comes with an action like pumping soap and rinsing hands off. Drink water, and she holds an imaginary cup that she lifts to her lips. Go play, circling her hands round each other.
他们在课后知道演习，但她仍然加强它，用她的双手使她的指示变得清晰。 去上厕所，向浴室走去。 用肥皂洗手，就像抽肥皂和洗手一樣。 喝水，她拿着一个想象中的杯子，然后把它举到嘴唇上。 去玩吧，她的双手互相围着。
Each sentence the students chant and gesture with her, and when she releases them from their seat, ready, set, go-ing them like it’s the start of a race, she appreciates the quiet in the interim between class and playtime as the students focus on her guidance.
每一句话，学生们都会和她高呼和做手势，当她把他们从座位上放开时，准备好，像比赛的开始一样，她欣赏上课和游戏时间之间的安静，因为学生们专注于她的指导。
It won’t last long. Her attempts at introducing a noise level system haven’t been going so well, the students recognising the gestures but not yet responding to them, but she’s quietly hopeful.
它不会持续很久。 她引入噪音等级系统的尝试并不顺利，学生们认出了手势，但还没有回应，但她悄悄地充满希望。
She settles back onto her chair, takes a deep breath and lets herself relax, watching the students’ hands flail and carve shapes into the air as they converse in Chinese, the exaggerated expressions they stick to despite the comfort of their own language in their mouths, a trinity of tone and gesture and expression that harmonise with their voices and surpass it.
她坐回椅子上，深吸了一口气，让自己放松下来，看着学生们用中文交谈时，双手在空中翻腾和雕刻形状，尽管他们嘴里说自己的语言很舒服，但他们坚持夸张的表情，三位一体的语气、手势和表情与他们的声音相协调，并超越了它。
It is conversation, she realises, all of it and all together. This time, when the statistic comes back to her mind, she isn’t so quick to dismiss it.
她意识到，这是对话，全部，全部在一起。 这一次，当统计数据回到她的脑海中时，她并没有那么快否定它。
