7 Brian Wong

BRIAN WONG, WHO WAS NEVER, EVER Wrong MANY YEARS AGO there lived a boy named Brian Wong. Wong was a total and utter swot. Not only was he the swottiest swot who ever swotted, he had to be right about EVERYTHING. "Brian Wong is never, ever wrong!" he would exclaim, much to the annoyance of everyone around him.

永远不会错很多年前，有一个男孩叫布赖恩·王。 黄是一个彻头彻尾的书呆子。 他不仅是史上最勤奋的书呆子，而且每件事都必须是正确的。 “黄布莱恩永远不会错！”他会大声说，这让他周围的人都很恼火。

The boy's favourite subject was mathematics. His favourite pastime was working out what looked like impossible sums and equations. Even if he didn't have any maths homework to do, Wong would set himself some. These he did with ease. All Wong's evenings, weekends and holidays would be spent working out hundreds of answers to incredibly complicated equations. Equations that would leave even his cleverest teachers scratching their heads. As a result of all this maths, maths, maths and yet more maths, Brian rarely saw daylight and was a rather pale child. And working out equations until long into the night had weakened his eyesight, so he wore wire-framed glasses with lenses so thick that they magnified his eyes to the size of tennis balls.

这个男孩最喜欢的科目是数学。 他最喜欢的消遣是计算看似不可能的求和和方程式。 即使他没有数学作业要做，他也会给自己留一些。 这些他做得很轻松。所有的晚上、周末和假期，王家辉都会用在计算数百个极其复杂的方程式上。 这些方程式甚至会让他最聪明的老师都摸不着头脑。 所有这些数学，数学，数学和更多的数学的结果，布莱恩很少看到日光，是一个相当苍白的孩子。 他一直计算方程式直到深夜，这削弱了他的视力，所以他戴着一副金属框眼镜，镜片很厚，把他的眼睛放大到网球那么大。

So as you can see, Wong prided himself on being a, mathematical genius and cleverer than everyone around him. Every single answer Wong would get right. Despite this, what the boy most feared was the thought that one day he might be proved wrong. This is the story of THAT DAY. It was a Monday morning and Brian was at school in his favourite lesson, maths.

所以你可以看到，王家卫为自己是一个数学天才而自豪，他比周围的人都聪明。 黄的每一个答案都是正确的。 尽管如此，男孩最害怕的是有一天他可能会被证明是错的。 这就是那天的故事。 那是一个星期一的早晨，布莱恩在学校上他最喜欢的数学课。

As he stood at the front of the classroom, the old maths teacher, Mr Shrewdly, addressed his pupils. "One thing you must always remember, boys and girls, is that numbers are INFINITE." "What does 'infinite' mean, sir?" asked a girl at the back. Brian Wong, who was sitting right at the front of the class, tutted loudly. "Tut, tut, tut." The boy tutted anyone he considered not as clever as him, which was everyone. "That is a good question," replied the teacher, giving Wong a stern sideways glance. "Because you can always add one to any number, they go on forever. They are therefore INFINITE." The children all looked around at each other, attempting to grasp this idea. "Now, I want you to think of the biggest number you can," continued the teacher. Lots of eager little hands shot up.

老数学老师施莱德利先生站在教室前面，向学生们讲话。 “孩子们，你们必须永远记住一件事，那就是数字是无限的。” “先生，‘无限’是什么意思？”坐在后面的一个女孩问。 Brian Wong坐在教室的最前面，大声地发出嘘声。 “啧，啧，啧。”这个男孩嘲笑任何他认为不如他聪明的人，也就是每个人。 “这是个好问题，”老师回答道，严厉地瞥了黄一眼。 “因为你总是可以在任何数字上加1，所以它们是无穷无尽的。 因此它们是无限的。” 孩子们都面面相觑，试图领会这个意思。 “现在，我要你想想你能想到的最大的数字，”老师继续说。 许多热切的小手举了起来。

"A million!" said one boy. "A billion!" shouted another- Nitin Singh. "A trillion!" called out Kenneth Chan. "A trillion trillion trillion!" announced Francis Françoise behind him, in a triumphant tone. Surely no one could think of a bigger number than that. The teacher was most amused by his pupils' efforts. "Ha ha! Very good, children. Very good. But can anyone top a trillion trillion trillion?" Wong thought for a moment. "A trillion trillion trillion and ONE."

“一百万！”一个男孩说。 “10亿！”另一个叫尼廷·辛格的人喊道。 “一万亿！”陈可辛喊道。 “一万亿万万亿万万亿！”弗朗西斯·弗朗索瓦兹在他身后得意洋洋地说。 当然，没有人能想到比这更大的数字了。 老师被学生们的努力逗乐了。 “哈哈!很好，孩子们。 很好。但谁能超过一亿亿亿亿亿呢？”黄想了一会儿。 “一万亿零一”。