终于，轮到居于末位的王美瑛老师发言。
她老娘早就想趁「新官上任三把火」──代理校长刚上任，还没把事搞砸、尚存威严之时──不吐不快：
「as you know, i’m lily li’s homeroom teacher, as well as ariel liu’s language tutor. i know clearly my responsibilities and obligations. i have already maed, not just once, i am fully aware of being obligated to do what i have to do, and ready to take any practical measures—and even assist in taking legal as, provided my presence is necessary. this ittee, heless, kept hindering me from fulfilling my duty. and now, president, your honor, is here. i would like to reiterate my disappois to all of you—」
「说中文，美瑛老师──体谅我们有些老师不讲英文。」
「get yourselves an interpreter, then—i don’t care—what i have to say i say it out loud and clear. and those who got my point got my point—whichever language i speak in, 老师。only if you choose to listen, not to once again hush me by shouting and hissing──ah-uh, here we go again—now please, let me tinue . . .」
「很失礼耶王老师──」「尊重一下好不好？」「权宜问题、权宜问题！」「主席，立刻将王美瑛赶出去！」
见主席的神情比雕塑的表情更加肃穆，叫嚣的人员只好乖乖闭嘴。
「the whole i just reminds me of j. d. salinger’s famous he catcher in the rye. one particular passage i want to share with all of you—and i assure you: it deserves your attention. now, bear with me—it goes like this:
「‘i keep picturing all the little kids playing some game in this big field of rye. thousands of little kids. nobody' s around - nobody big, except me. and i' m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. what could i have to do, i have to catch every little kid if they start to run toward the cliff—if they' re running and they don' t look where they' re going, i have to e out and catch them. that' s all i do all day. i' d just be the catcher in the rye. i know that sounds crazy, but that' s the only thing i will have to be.’」
「let me tell you, my peer and respectful senior members, hretful i am, right nht here, to have to attend this pointless meeting; not because i have to play the little gam