我的办公桌塞满了一抽屉字条。一些是家长真迹,一些是赝品,后者多于前者,内容则是五花八门,充满想像力甚至荒诞不经,几乎可以集结成册,书名取作《美国一流借口》。这些美国“文才”每次碰上作文,总是发出阵阵哀鸣,要挤出200字简直难如登天。但他们为了请假写字条的功力却堪称一 My desk is stuffed with a drawer note. Some are authentic parents, some are counterfeit, the latter more than the former, the content is varied, full of imagination and even absurd, almost can be assembled into a book, entitled as “America’s first-class excuse.” Every time these American “literary talent ” run into compositions, they always send out a grudge. It is hard to squeeze 200 words into the sky. However, they wrote one for the sake of writing skills