經典英文故事
Bob King, 22.
鮑勃·金斯利，22歲。
The Grade 12 pupil was abandoned at the age of 13, and has become a source of inspiration to his schoolmates, teachers and the counity.
這個12年級的學生是在13歲時被遺棄的，現在已經成為了他的同學、和整個社區的力量來源了。
Everyday after schooland on weekends, while his classmates are having fun, he works as a gardener to pay his school fees, and to buy food and clothes.
每天放學後，還有周末，當同學們在盡玩樂時，他卻在做園藝賺來支付學費、買食物和衣服。
“Education is my last hope,” he says. “I know that unless I get a good education, I’ll continue to live like a street kid for the rest of .”
“受教育是我最終的”，他說，“我知道，除了我得到良好的教育，否則我這一生都隻能像街頭仔一樣了。”
Bob’s descent into poverty and hardship started in 1994 when his father died of tuberculosis.
鮑勃跌入貧窮和困難的境地開始於1994年，那一年他的死於肺結核。
He was sent to live with his mother’s relatives in a nearby village and a few months later, he received a message that his mother was dead.
他被送到附近的村子同他的媽媽的親戚們一起生活，幾個月後，他得到了個消息：他的去世了。
When he went back home to attend his mother’s funeral, he learned that she was actually not dead, but had gone to Mozambique with a boyfriend.
當他參加媽媽的葬禮時，他才知道，事實上，他的媽媽並沒有死，而是和新一起去了莫桑比克。
For nine years, the young boy wandered from one village to another, with strangers who often treated him like a slave.
九年中，這個小從一個村子遊蕩到了另一個村子，和一些經常役使他工作的們一起生活。
But he never quit school.
但是他從沒有過。
Last year, a teacher gave him a plot in the township where he built his own shack.
去年，一位老師給了他一塊鎮上的小空地，在那兒他建起了自己的小木屋。
“He is an inspiration to all of us,” said school principal Richard Ball. “After what he had been through, many youngsters would have given up hope or turned to crime.
“對於我們大來說，他是種激勵，”校長裏查德·巴利說。“或許年輕人要是有他這種，早就放棄或是走上犯罪的道路了。”
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