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As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. Suddenly, on that mountain road, its time had come to meet my need. But as I reflected on it further, I realized that the green banana had been there all along. Its time reached back to the very origins of the banana. The people in that village had known about it for years. It was my own time that had not come, all in relation to it. I came to appreciate the special genius of those people, and the special potential of the green banana. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call "learning moments", and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once.
作为美国教育的产品，我除了把青香蕉当作还没长熟的水果，从来就没注意过它。但突然在那条山路上，当我需要时，它出现了。可是仔细想一想，其实青香蕉一直都在那儿存在着，甚至可以追溯到香蕉的起源。至于青香蕉的作用，村民也早就知道了，而我自己却是在经历了这件事以后才刚刚认识到的。我开始欣赏村民们的特殊天赋以及青香蕉的特殊潜能。曾有一段时间，我一直困惑于教育家们所谓的“顿悟”，而现在我知道自己刚刚同时经历了两个这样的时刻。
It took me a little longer to fully grasp the importance of the rock which the villagers believed marked the center of the world. I had at first doubted their claim, as I knew for a fact that the center was located somewhere else in New England. After all, my grandfather had come from there. But gradually I realized the village people had a very reasonable belief and I agreed with them.
又过了一段时间，我才真正明白了村民们认为标志着世界中心的那块岩石的重要性。开始时我怀疑他们的说法，因为我知道实际上世界的中心是位于新英格兰的某个地方，毕竟，我的祖父就是那儿的人。但我逐渐意识到他们的想法是很有道理的，我赞同他们的看法。
