Eight-year-old Sally brought her report card home from school .

八十岁大的 莎莉从学校把她的成绩报告卡带回家。

Her marks were good mostly .

她的成绩不错，

A's and a couple of B'S .

大部分都是A，还有几个B。

However ,her teacher had written across the bottom¹,

可是， 她韵老师在卡片下方写道：

"SALLY is a smart little girl,but she has one fault²,

“莎莉是个聪明的小女孩，但是她有一个毛病。

she talks too much in school.I have an idea I am going to try,

她在学校太爱讲话。我有一个想法我要来试试看，

which I think may break her of the bad habit."

我认为．这个想法可能会让她改掉这个坏习惯。”

Sally's dad signed her report card,

莎莉的爸爸签了她的学习报告卡，

putting a note on the back ,

并在卡片背面注记：

"Please let me know if your idea work on SALLY

“如果你的想法对莎莉很有效，请你让我知道，

because I would like to try it out on her mother."

因为我想要把它试用在她妈妈身上。