高三的最后一天，是个晴天。
Gāo sān de zuìhòu yì tiān, shì gè qíng tiān.
The last day of my final year was a sunny day.
那天没有课，也没有考试，只有散场。
Nà tiān méiyǒu kè, yě méiyǒu kǎoshì, zhǐyǒu sǎn chǎng.
There were no classes that day, and no exams, only the end of things.
学校让我们回教室，收拾东西。
Xuéxiào ràng wǒmen huí jiàoshì, shōushi dōngxi.
The school had us go back to the classroom to pack up our things.
教室还是老样子，只是我们成了客人。
Jiàoshì háishi lǎo yàngzi, zhǐshì wǒmen chéng le kèrén.
The classroom looked the same as ever; only we had become guests.
三年的书和本子，在桌子上堆得很高很高。
Sān nián de shū hé běnzi, zài zhuōzi shàng duī de hěn gāo hěn gāo.
Three years of books and notebooks were piled very, very high on the desks.
要的装进书包，不要的放在门口。
Yào de zhuāng jìn shūbāo, búyào de fàng zài ménkǒu.
What we wanted went into our bags; what we did not went by the door.
我翻出一本刚入学时的本子。
Wǒ fān chū yì běn gāng rùxué shí de běnzi.
I dug out a notebook from when I first entered the school.
头一页写着，我要考上好大学。
Tóu yí yè xiě zhe, wǒ yào kǎo shàng hǎo dàxué.
On the first page it said, I will get into a good university.
字写得很大，很用力，纸都快要破了。
Zì xiě de hěn dà, hěn yònglì, zhǐ dōu kuàiyào pò le.
The characters were written big and hard, nearly tearing the paper.
我看着那行字，笑了半天。
Wǒ kàn zhe nà xíng zì, xiào le bàntiān.
I looked at that line and laughed for a long while.
三年前的我，怎么会知道今天的心情。
Sān nián qián de wǒ, zěnme huì zhīdào jīntiān de xīnqíng.
How could the me of three years ago have known what I would feel today?
旁边的同学在收拾抽屉。
Pángbiān de tóngxué zài shōushi chōuti.
The classmate next to me was clearing out her drawer.
她的抽屉里全是小东西。
Tā de chōuti lǐ quán shì xiǎo dōngxi.
Her drawer was full of little things.
纸条，照片，还有几颗舍不得吃的糖。
Zhǐ tiáo, zhàopiàn, hái yǒu jǐ kē shěbude chī de táng.
Paper notes, photos, and a few candies she could not bear to eat.
她说扔了吧，手却一直没有动。
Tā shuō rēng le ba, shǒu què yìzhí méiyǒu dòng.
She said she would throw them away, but her hand did not move.
黑板角上写的那个数字，今天是一。
Hēibǎn jiǎo shàng xiě de nàge shùzì, jīntiān shì yī.
The number written in the corner of the blackboard read one today.
老师说，谁来把它擦了。
Lǎoshī shuō, shéi lái bǎ tā cā le.
The teacher asked who would erase it.
没有人动。
Méiyǒu rén dòng.
Nobody moved.
大家都看着那个一字，谁也不伸手。
Dàjiā dōu kàn zhe nàge yí zì, shéi yě bù shēnshǒu.
Everyone stared at that number one, and nobody reached out a hand.
那个数字已经在黑板上站了三百多天。
Nàge shùzì yǐjīng zài hēibǎn shàng zhàn le sān bǎi duō tiān.
That number had already stood on the blackboard for over three hundred days.
每天进教室，头一件事就是看它。
Měi tiān jìn jiàoshì, tóu yí jiàn shì jiùshì kàn tā.
Every day when we entered the classroom, the first thing we did was look at it.
现在谁也不想送它走。
Xiànzài shéi yě bù xiǎng sòng tā zǒu.
Now nobody wanted to see it off.
它数完了我们的一年，谁也不舍得擦它。
Tā shù wán le wǒmen de yì nián, shéi yě bù shěde cā tā.
It had counted down our year, and nobody could bear to erase it.
最后还是老师拿布把它擦了。
Zuìhòu háishi lǎoshī ná bù bǎ tā cā le.
In the end it was the teacher who took a cloth and wiped it away.
他说，擦了，就真毕业了。
Tā shuō, cā le, jiù zhēn bìyè le.
He said, once it is erased, you have truly graduated.
布擦过去，教室里很静。
Bù cā guòqù, jiàoshì lǐ hěn jìng.
As the cloth passed over it, the classroom was very still.
有人哭了，哭声不大。
Yǒu rén kū le, kū shēng bú dà.
Someone cried, not loudly.
哭的是平时最安静的那个同学。
Kū de shì píngshí zuì ānjìng de nàge tóngxué.
The one crying was the quietest classmate of all.
老师转过身去，看着窗外。
Lǎoshī zhuǎn guò shēn qù, kàn zhe chuāng wài.
The teacher turned around and looked out of the window.
他说，窗外那棵树，你们来时还很矮。
Tā shuō, chuāng wài nà kē shù, nǐmen lái shí hái hěn ǎi.
He said, the tree outside the window was still short when you came.
现在它比三层楼都高了。
Xiànzài tā bǐ sān céng lóu dōu gāo le.
Now it is taller than three floors.
我们坐在那里，谁都没有说话。
Wǒmen zuò zài nàlǐ, shéi dōu méiyǒu shuōhuà.
We sat there, and none of us said a word.
下午是在操场上的毕业典礼。
Xiàwǔ shì zài cāochǎng shàng de bìyè diǎnlǐ.
In the afternoon came the graduation ceremony on the sports field.
台上的人讲话，没有人记得说了什么。
Tái shàng de rén jiǎnghuà, méiyǒu rén jìde shuō le shénme.
People on the stage gave speeches; nobody remembers what was said.
我们只记得太阳很晒。
Wǒmen zhī jìde tàiyáng hěn shài.
We only remember that the sun was fierce.
记得操场上的草味，晒了一上午。
Jìde cāochǎng shàng de cǎo wèi, shài le yí shàngwǔ.
We remember the smell of the sports field grass after a morning of sun.
记得大家一起唱那首熟悉的歌，唱得很响。
Jìde dàjiā yìqǐ chàng nà shǒu shúxi de gē, chàng de hěn xiǎng.
We remember everyone singing that familiar song together, very loudly.
唱到一半，很多人哭了。
Chàng dào yíbàn, hěn duō rén kū le.
Halfway through the song, many people cried.
平时最爱闹的同学，哭得最厉害。
Píngshí zuì ài nào de tóngxué, kū de zuì lìhai.
The classmate who usually fooled around the most cried the hardest.
典礼结束以后，我们最后一次回到教室。
Diǎnlǐ jiéshù yǐhòu, wǒmen zuìhòu yí cì huí dào jiàoshì.
When the ceremony ended, we went back to the classroom for the last time.
每一张桌子上，都用粉笔写满了名字。
Měi yì zhāng zhuōzi shàng, dōu yòng fěn bǐ xiě mǎn le míngzi.
On every single desk, names were written all over in chalk.
墙上贴了三年的画，一张张取下来。
Qiáng shàng tiē le sān nián de huà, yì zhāng zhāng qǔ xiàlái.
The pictures that had hung on the wall for three years were taken down one by one.
我坐了三年的位置，靠窗，中间那一排。
Wǒ zuò le sān nián de wèizhì, kào chuāng, zhōngjiān nà yì pái.
The seat I had sat in for three years was by the window, in the middle row.
桌子角上有我刻的一个小小的字。
Zhuōzi jiǎo shàng yǒu wǒ kè de yí gè xiǎo xiǎo de zì.
On the corner of the desk was a small character I had carved.
刻的是一个早字。
Kè de shì yí gè zǎo zì.
What I carved was the character for early.
因为我总是迟到。
Yīnwèi wǒ zǒngshì chídào.
Because I was always late.
老师让我每天早到十分钟，我做不到。
Lǎoshī ràng wǒ měi tiān zǎo dào shífēn zhōng, wǒ zuò bú dào.
The teacher told me to arrive ten minutes early every day, and I never managed it.
老师看见过，没有说话。
Lǎoshī kànjiàn guò, méiyǒu shuōhuà.
The teacher had seen it and said nothing.
他只是每天比我到得还早。
Tā zhǐshì měi tiān bǐ wǒ dào de hái zǎo.
He simply arrived even earlier than me every day.
他站在教室前面读书，声音不高。
Tā zhàn zài jiàoshì qiánmiàn dúshū, shēngyīn bù gāo.
He stood at the front of the classroom reading, in a low voice.
后墙上贴着全班的照片。
Hòu qiáng shàng tiē zhe quán bān de zhàopiàn.
On the back wall was pasted the photo of the whole class.
照片上，我们都笑得很傻。
Zhàopiàn shàng, wǒmen dōu xiào de hěn shǎ.
In the photo we were all grinning foolishly.
拍照那天，太阳也是这么好。
Pāizhào nà tiān, tàiyáng yě shì zhème hǎo.
The day the photo was taken, the sun was just as fine.
我踩上椅子，把它取了下来。
Wǒ cǎi shàng yǐzi, bǎ tā qǔ le xiàlái.
I stepped onto a chair and took it down.
照片的背后，每个人都写了名字。
Zhàopiàn de bèihòu, měi gèrén dōu xiě le míngzi.
On the back of the photo, everyone had written their names.
我的那一角，同学写了一行字。
Wǒ de nà yì jiǎo, tóngxué xiě le yìháng zì.
In my corner, my deskmate had written a line.
上面写的是，别忘了我。
Shàngmiàn xiě de shì, bié wàng le wǒ.
What was written there was: don’t forget me.
我把那张照片，小心放进书包最里面。
Wǒ bǎ nà zhāng zhàopiàn, xiǎoxīn fàng jìn shūbāo zuì lǐmiàn.
I put that photo carefully into the innermost part of my bag.
天黑以前，我们锁了教室的门。
Tiān hēi yǐqián, wǒmen suǒ le jiàoshì de mén.
Before dark, we locked the classroom door.
钥匙交到老师手里的时候，谁都舍不得。
Yàoshi jiāo dào lǎoshī shǒu lǐ de shíhou, shéi dōu shěbude.
When the key was placed in the teacher’s hand, none of us could bear to let go.
走出教学楼的时候，我还是回头看了一眼。
Zǒu chū jiàoxué lóu de shíhou, wǒ háishi huítóu kàn le yì yǎn.
As I walked out of the teaching building, I looked back once after all.
一排一排的窗户，一个一个黑了。
Yì pái yì pái de chuānghu, yí gè yí gè hēi le.
Row after row of windows went dark, one by one.
只有我们教室的灯，还亮着。
Zhǐyǒu wǒmen jiàoshì de dēng, hái liàng zhe.
Only the light in our classroom was still on.
是看门的老头，拿着钥匙在里面检查。
Shì kàn mén de lǎo tóu, ná zhe yàoshi zài lǐmiàn jiǎnchá.
It was the old caretaker, keys in hand, checking inside.
他从顶上一层一层地往下关灯。
Tā cóng dǐng shàng yì céng yì céng de wǎng xià guān dēng.
From the top floor he turned off the lights level by level.
灯灭到我们教室的时候，我的眼泪下来了。
Dēng miè dào wǒmen jiàoshì de shíhou, wǒ de yǎnlèi xiàlái le.
When the light went out in our classroom, my tears came down.
学校门口，大家互相说再见。
Xuéxiào ménkǒu, dàjiā hùxiāng shuō zàijiàn.
At the school gate, everyone said goodbye to each other.
嘴上都说明年再见，其实心里都知道。
Zuǐ shàng dōu shuōmíng nián zàijiàn, qíshí xīnlǐ dōu zhīdào.
Our mouths all said see you next year, but in our hearts we all knew.
很多人，这一生再也见不到了。
Hěn duō rén, zhè yìshēng zài yě jiàn bú dào le.
Many of us would never meet again in this life.
出了门，我没有回头。
Chū le mén, wǒ méiyǒu huítóu.
Once out of the gate, I did not look back.
我怕一回头，就走不动了。
Wǒ pà yì huítóu, jiù zǒu bú dòng le.
I was afraid that one look back and I would be unable to move.
车来了，我上去，坐在靠窗的老位置。
Chē lái le, wǒ shàngqù, zuò zài kào chuāng de lǎo wèizhì.
The bus came; I got on and sat in my usual seat by the window.
车开了，学校一点一点往后退。
Chē kāi le, xuéxiào yì diǎn yì diǎn wǎnghòu tuì.
As the bus pulled away, the school fell back bit by bit.
它越来越小，最后看不见了。
Tā yuè lái yuè xiǎo, zuìhòu kàn bújiàn le.
It grew smaller and smaller, until I could not see it anymore.
书包里，那张照片挨着我的背。
Shūbāo lǐ, nà zhāng zhàopiàn āi zhe wǒ de bēi.
In my bag, that photo pressed against my back.
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