『Eleven-year-old Vladimir Putin?infuriated?his gym teacher, skipped his math homework, nearly?flunked?drawing, and?in short, was “one of us”, a popular Russian?tabloid?declared. The paper announced it had?unearthed?Putin’s grade book in the?attic?of a small wooden house where he spent his childhood.?The evidence hardly bore signs of future greatness.?Putin’s marks were?mediocre. On the Soviet five-point scale he got threes in arithmetic and nature science and a worrying two in drawing.
The only subject in which he scored a perfect five was history. But he also got a five for “behavior”, despite the?pestering?of his gym teacher.?In the year since?the president?took power,?Russian and foreign media have?dug for details?of the Russian?president’s past, much of which has?remained in the shadows?because of his career as a one-time KGB spy.』
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Vocabulary
infuriate沫浆，激怒捷枯、使大怒
flunk，不及格
tabloid专执，小報(bào)淮捆、通俗小報(bào)
unearth，發(fā)掘本股、揭露
attic攀痊，閣樓
mediocre，普通的拄显、中等的
perster苟径，使為難
Phrases
in short，簡而言之
in the year since…凿叠，自從那一年開始
take power涩笤，掌權(quán)
dug for details嚼吞，挖掘細(xì)節(jié)
one's past，某人的過去
remain in the shadows蹬碧，保持未知
其實(shí)不只是普京舱禽，任何孩子都可以變得偉大。三歲看到老不一定是準(zhǔn)確的恩沽。有時(shí)多點(diǎn)耐心誊稚、多點(diǎn)支持，對于孩子成長會有莫大的益處罗心。你看到的只是三分里伯，但滿分總共五分是你沒看到的。
