期中考的某一天，課堂的鐘打了，考卷都發了，我發現有個女孩還在看手機，此時我不得不把手機搶過來，心裡不禁嘀咕這個人很不進入狀況。因為我很喜歡東觀察西觀察的，我就在接下來的一個小時裡研究她，後來我從她的T-shirt發現她是拔河隊的隊員，而且作答的樣子也很像是體育選手。
One one mid-term day, after the bell rang, I was almost through distributing the test papers. Still, one girl was staring at her cellphone. I couldn't help confiscating it from her, murmuring silently that this student was really out of the loop. Since I love being an observer, I spent the next hour studying her. From the words on the back of her T-shirt, I found she's an athlete of the tug-of-war team. Also, she was fidgeting most of the time during the exam since there weren't many questions she could answer.
下課之後我把女孩叫來，吩咐她在那天結束之前都不要再開手機，把電話遞給她的當兒，不小心碰觸到她的手掌心，摸到硬硬的繭，整個人像觸到電，在那一秒間看到了她的人生。
After the exam, I called her forth, bidding her not to turn on the cellphone before the day was over. While passing the cell to her, I accidentally touched her palm. When I felt the hard calluses, I was electrified as if I saw her whole life play out in front of my eyes at that moment.
