英文作者：新金山西区中文学校VCE预备班学生吴思越
中文翻译：思越妈妈
Heroes are all around us but of course, only some of those heroes are ones that we know by name. The superheroes illustrated in DC or Marvel comics are considered heroes because they have superpowers that nobody else has, they help people, they save the world, that’s why they are considered heroes. However, just because someone hasn’t done something that is very significant, something that changes the world, it doesn’t mean that they are not a hero. Everyone has a hero in their life. One such hero in my life is my Chinese teacher Mrs Guo.
英雄无处不在，但是他们中只有一些人的名字为我们所知。DC动漫公司和漫威公司 创造的超级英雄被认为是英雄，因为他们有别人没有的超能力。然而，仅仅因为某些人没有做非常显著的，能够改变世界的事情，并不意味着他们就不是英雄。每个人的生命中都有一个英雄。我的生命中这样一个英雄是我的中文老师郭老师。
Mrs Guo taught me Chinese from grade one to grade six. Within those six years, she taught me so many things. From being able to read Chinese characters, to being able to write fluent essays in the Chinese language. She lay down the concrete foundations for my future Chinese learning. Mrs Guo has been a teacher for decades but even though she is retired and has migrated to Australia, she still continues to teach students like me, whose families have migrated from China. In an English-speaking country, it is not uncommon for students of Chinese background to forget how to speak the language. Luckily my family refused to let me forget so they send me to Chinese school every Saturday.
郭老师从一年级到六年级教我中文。在那六年里，她教了我这么多：从能够阅读中文字，到能用中文流利地写文章。她为我将来的中文学习奠定了扎实的基础。郭老师从事教育几十年了，但是即使她退休了，移民到澳洲了，她仍然继续教像我这样从中国移民过来的学生。在一个英语国家，有中文背景的学生忘记如何说中文并不少见。幸运的是我的家庭坚决不让我忘记中文，所以我父母每周六把我送到中文学校。
What I think makes Mrs Guo different from other teachers and what I think makes her a hero is her love towards her students as though we are all her children, she teaches us with her heart and she is always there to encourage us and never let us give up.
我认为让郭老师与众不同并且使她成为一个英雄的是她对学生的爱，仿佛我们都是她的孩子。她用她的心来教我们，总是在那里鼓励我们，从不让我们轻易放弃。
I remember that when I was in grade four, there was a poem recital competition, it was held yearly from grades four and up. I was very shy kid back then, whenever I was asked to read something, no one would be able to hear me clearly. However, Mrs Guo still suggested that I give this competition a go. She provided me with some poems I would be able to choose from and told me to go home and practise reading them and putting emotion into every word. I remember having to perform in front of my class but I was still too quiet because I was so nervous, at that point I wanted to give up.
我记得当我四年级的时候，有一个四年级及以上的年度诗歌朗诵比赛。那时我还是一个非常害羞的小孩，每当我被叫到当众阅读时，没有人能听清楚我在读什么。然而，郭老师仍然建议我参加比赛。她给我提供了一些我能够选择的诗歌并让我回家练习、让我用感情读每一个单词。我记得不得不在全班同学面前表演，但是我的声音还是太轻，因为我很紧张，那时我想要放弃。
However, Mrs Guo knew that if I just shook off those nerves and recited the poem confidently, there was no reason why I would not be able to perform in front of the judges. She saw something in me that neither my parents nor myself has seen and she had faith in me. On the day of competition, I was extremely nervous and I think Mrs Guo could that so she walked up to me and told me that there was nothing to be afraid of and I as long as I performed to the best of my ability, that was enough. When I stood up on that stage and I looked at the judges, I remembered her words and suddenly I wasn’t nervous anymore.
然而，郭老师知道如果我能克服紧张并且很自信地背诵诗歌，没有理由我不能在评委面前表演。她洞察到了连我的父母和我自己都没有看到的我内在的东西，她对我有信心。比赛那天，我特别紧张，郭老师看出来了，所以她走上来告诉我只要我尽了做大的努力表演就足够了，没有什么可以害怕的。当我站到台上看着评委们的时候，我想起了郭老师的话，突然间，我就不再害怕了。
I ended up winning second in that competition and I remember looking into the audience as I stood on the stage, holding my award. I could see Mrs Guo’s beaming face in the crowd. She hadn’t just encouraged me to participate in the competition, she gave me confidence that I never knew I had.
那次比赛我获得了二等奖，我记得当我拿着奖状站在台上看着观众的时候，我可以看到人群中郭老师充满喜悦的脸。她不仅仅是鼓励我参加比赛，她给了我从未有过的自信。
Mrs Guo is a hero in my life and is someone I believe should receive community recognition because she has the power to pick you up when you are down, to encourage you to meet new challenges and try new things. I can personally say that without Mrs Guo, I would never in a million years have the confidence that I do today. She has the power to change a student’s life. That is what makes her a hero.
郭老师是我生命中的英雄，也是我认为应该获得社区认可的人物，因为她具有在你情绪低落的时候安慰你、鼓励你迎接新的挑战并且尝试新事物的力量。我个人可以这样说， 如果没有郭老师，再过一百万年我都不会拥有象今天这样的自信。她有改变一个学生命运的力量，这就是为什么她是一个英雄。
谨以此文献给曾经给予我爱和信心的敬爱的郭老师！
2018年5月27日