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A teacher in New York decided to honor（表扬） each of her seniors in high school by telling them the difference they each made. Using a process（程序） developed by Helice Bridges of Del Mar, California, she called each student to the front of the class, one at a time.

纽约有一位中学老师决定表扬她的每个高三学生，告诉他们，他们每个人都不同程度地对其他人的生活产生影响。 通过使用加利福尼亚德尔玛地区的赫雷斯·布里奇开发的程序，她将每个学生都叫到全班前面，每次叫一个。

First she told them how the student made a difference to her and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon imprinted（印） with gold letters which read: “Who I Am Makes a Difference!”

首先，她告诉全班这位同学对她个人和全班带来了什么样的影响。接着，她给每位学生送上一条上面印有“世界因我而精彩”几个金色大字的蓝色缎带。

Afterwards the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of effect recognition（）反响 would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment（赞许） ceremony.

之后，这位老师决定做一个班级性项目，看看认可他人这种举措在社会上会产生什么反响。她给每位学生三条缎带，指导他们如何走出去，将赞许他人这一行为推而广之。

Then they were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom and report back to the class in about a week. One of the boys in the class went to a junior executive（主管） in a nearby company and honored him for helping him with his career planning.

然后他们还要对结果进行跟踪，看看是谁认可了谁，并在一个星期内向全班报告。 其中的一个男孩去了附近一家公司，找到一位年轻主管，感激他帮助自己制订了一份职业计划。

He gave him a blue ribbon and put it on his shirt. Then he gave him two extra ribbons, and said:“We’re doing a class project on recognition, and we’d like you to go out, find somebody to honor, give them a blue ribbon, then give them the extra blue ribbon so they can acknowledge（赞许） a third person to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going.

这个男孩将那条蓝色缎带授给他，并将缎带佩带在他的衬衫上。然后，他又拿出另外两条缎带，交给他并说道：“我们正在进行一个关于赞许的班级项目，我们希望你也走出去，去发现值得你赞许的人，然后把一条蓝色缎带授给他，把多出的那条缎带交给他，这样他就能赞许第三人，将这个赞许仪式持续下去。

Then please report back to me and tell me what happened.” Later that day the junior executive went in to see his boss, who had been known, by the way, as being kind of a grouchy（爱发脾气的） fellow.

然后请你告诉我发生的一切。” 就在当天，那位年轻主管去见他的老板，顺便提一下，那个老板是个公认的爱发脾气的人。

He sat his boss down and he told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The boss seemed very surprised. The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon and would he give him permission to put it on him.

年轻主管请老板坐下并告诉他说，他深深地崇拜他，因为他是一个富有创意的天才。老板看起来很吃惊的样子。年轻主管问他是否愿意把那条蓝色缎带当作礼物来接受，能否允许他给他带上。

His surprised boss said:“Well, sure.” The junior executive took the blue ribbon and placed it right on his boss’s jacket above his heart.

这位惊呆了的老板回答道：“哦，当然。”于是，年轻主管便将蓝色缎带佩戴在他老板的夹克衫上，心脏的正上方。

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