施工安全生产责任制:翻译翻译

This experience of a whole people beginning to go to school for the first time presents one of the most interesting circumstances that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any people. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn. As fast as any kind of teachers would be hired, not only were day schools filled, but night schools as well. The great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died. And thus men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night school.
When I appeared at the school for the first time, I found myself with a major difficulty – I had no last name. As long as I could remember, I had been simply called “Booker”. Before going to school I had never imagined that it was necessary to have another name. when I heard the school roll called, I noticed that all of the children had at least two names, and some of them had what seemed to me the luxury of having three! This was a real problem because I knew that the teacher would ask me for at least two names and I had only one. When the time came for registering my name, however, an idea occurred to me which I thought would make me equal to the situation. So when the teacher asked me what my whole name was, I simply told him “Booker Washington”, as if I had been called by that name all my life; and by that name I have since been known.