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It never seems easy to be a positive person while bombarded with bad news every day, yet the author finds a special way to do this -- sharing good news every day with his students. And it works well!
我们每天被大量的坏消息炮轰，很难成为一个积极向上的人，但是文章的作者找到了一个特殊的方式——每天和他的学生分享好消息。并且这个方式起到了很好的作用。
Every Day's a Celebration!
每一天都是一场庆典
By Hal Urban
哈尔·厄本
What are we celebrating today?
我们今天要庆祝什么？
I asked the above question at the beginning of every one of my classes, whether I was teaching kids or adults. Sometimes I asked it a little differently, as in, "Who has good news?" or "Who has something good to say?" However I worded it, it always meant the same thing. It was a call for celebrating life, for focusing on what's right and what's good. And it was always fun! It was part of a life-affirming ritual that started by accident in the 1970-71 school year and continued until I stopped classroom teaching in 2001 -- thirty years of celebrating! By a conservative estimate, I asked one of these questions at the beginning of class about twenty-seven thousand times. And every time I asked, I got five or more positive responses. That's a lot of celebrating!
每节课开始时我都会问上面的问题，不管教的是孩子还是成人。有时我会换个稍微不同的问法，比如：“谁有好消息？”或者“谁有些好事要说？”不管怎么措辞，意思总是一样的。这是对赞美生活的一种呼吁，呼吁我们专注于正确与美好。而这总是很有意思！这是一种让人积极面对生活的仪式的一部分，偶然地开始于1970-71学年，一直持续到2001年我停止课堂教学为止——整整三十年的庆祝！保守估算一下，每节课开头我问过其中一个问题约达27,000次。而每次提问，我都能得到五个或以上的肯定回答。还真是庆祝了很多呢！
Believe it or not, this little ritual started as the result of two things that usually have a negative connotation, especially with kids: current events and homework.
信不信由你，这个小小的仪式是因为两件通常带有消极含义的事情引起的：时事和作业。
