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’lily li’s horooteacher, as well as ariel liu’s language tutor. i know clearly responsibilities and obligans. i have already nifested, not just once, i afully aware of being obligated to do what i have to do, and ready to take any practical asures—and even assist in taking legal acns, provided presence is necessary. this coittee, nevertheless, kept hindering frofulfilling duty. and now, president, your honor, is here. i would like to reiterate disappointnts 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 point got point—whichever language i speak in, 老师。only if you choose to listen, not to once again hush by shouting and hissing──ah-uh, here we go again—now please, let continue . . .」
「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 incident just rends of j. d. salinger’s faus novel, the catcher in the rye. one particular passage i want to share with all of you—and i assure you: it deserves your attenn. now, bear with —it goes like this:
「‘i keep picturing all the little kids playing so ga in this big field of rye. thousands of little kids. nobody''s around - nobody big, except . and i''standing on the edge of so 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 co out and catch the 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 tell you, peer and respectful ser ers, how regretful i a right now, right here, to have to attend this pointless eting; not because i have to play the little ga with you weaklings, or because i have to si