Liz: I was always the smelly kid in class. Lisa stood on the bucket to shower, but daddy laughed at her doing, said she had to marry a doctor. She has so many expectations. I didn't have any expectations. So therefore, I guess, I stunk. And I itched from lice and it burned between my legs. My teachers were always telling not to finch it. And my underwear. I didn't know what to do about underwear. I just wore it until it fell apart. 我在班里一直是个"有味道"的孩子。Lisa站在木桶上淋浴，爸爸嘲笑说她必须跟一个医生结婚，她期待太多，而我没有什么期待，所以，我想，因此身上有味儿。虱子让我很痒。双腿间烧的难受。老师告诉我别去挠。内裤? 我不知道该怎么对待内裤，直到它破之前我就一直穿着它。

Teacher: All right! People! Thank you! Rest is over. 好了，好了，同学们，谢谢，休息时间结束了。

Liz: My teeth ached. I was hungry. 我的牙疼，饥肠辘辘。

Teacher: Settle! Thank you! 坐好。谢谢！

Liz: The teacher's words never seemed to reach me. Words just seemed... fall on the floor. 老师的话从来传不到我这里，那些话就好像掉到了地上一样。

Teacher: Hold me the test, Liz. There's no point that ... 不用考试了，根本没有意义……

Liz: No, I'll take it 不，我要参加考试。

Teacher: But you've been here what? For 3 times this month? 可以就来了几次？这个月三次？

Liz: No, I'll take it. It doesn't look that hard. 不，我要考试，看上去没多难。……

Teacher: Oh, Liz, stay here. You do smell, you know? Doesn't your mother tell you that you gonna ... Liz，你先等一下。你确实闻起来很臭，你知道吗？你妈妈没告诉你应该……

Liz: No, no. It's my fault. I just forget. 不是的，不是的。都是我的错。是我忘了。

Teacher: OK. Well, when you have shower tonight, you wanna, you wanna wash back here? Ah, I've been saving some things for you. There…and here. How did you do that? You're never in school. 好了，今天晚上洗澡的时候，你会洗耳朵后把？哦，我这儿有些东西给你。这些…… 这个，你是怎么做到的？你几乎不来上课。

Liz: I read a lot. 我读了很多书。

Teacher: Yeah? What do you read? 你读了什么？

Liz: The Encyclopedia. The lady upstairs, Eva, she found them in the dumpster, the whole set ... well, except for the Urdas. If you asked me about Urdas, I would have got it wrong. I was just lucky. 百科全书。我楼上的女士在垃圾箱里找到的。一整套，不对，除了Urdas. 如果你问我有关Urdas的部分，我就该做错了。我只是运气好。

Teacher: Oh, Lizzy! You have to come to school. 你一定得来学校。

Liz: OK. 好吧。

Teacher: No, I mean it. Look, it's ridiculous you're way too smart not to be here. I don't understand why don't come? 不，你必须得来。你太聪明了，不来上课太说不过去。我不明白你干嘛不来。

Liz: I will. How could I tell her that school made me sad. I didn't know how to talk to her. I didn't know how to talk to anyone. My house wasn't a place you could come out of and be normal.
我会的。我怎么能告诉他学校让我感到难过。我不知道怎么和她说话。不知道怎么和任何人交谈。我的房子不是一个能走出正常人的地方。

Teacher: We have to come every day. OK? If you don't, and I have to call Child Welfare. That's not a threat. It’s a promise. 一定每天都来，好吗？如果你不来，我会打电话给儿童福利管理局。这不是威胁，是个承诺。