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A teacher in New York decided to honor（表揚） 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.
紐約有一位中學老師決定表揚她的每個高三學生，告訴他們，他們每個人都不同程度地對其他人的生活產生影響。 通過使用加利福尼亞德爾瑪地區的赫雷斯·布里奇開發的程序，她將每個學生都叫到全班前面，每次叫一個。
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，她告訴全班這位同學對她個人和全班帶來了什麼樣的影響。接著，她給每位學生送上一條上面印有“世界因我而精彩”幾個金色大字的藍色緞帶。
Afterwards the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of effect recognition（）反響 would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment（讚許） ceremony.
之後，這位老師決定做一個班級性項目，看看認可他人這種舉措在社會上會產生什麼反響。她給每位學生三條緞帶，指導他們如何走出去，將讚許他人這一行為推而廣之。
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.
然後他們還要對結果進行跟蹤，看看是誰認可了誰，並在一個星期內向全班報告。 其中的一個男孩去了附近一家公司，找到一位年輕主管，感激他幫助自己制訂了一份職業計劃。
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（讚許） a third person to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going.
這個男孩將那條藍色緞帶授給他，並將緞帶佩帶在他的襯衫上。然後，他又拿出另外兩條緞帶，交給他並說道：“我們正在進行一個關於讚許的班級項目，我們希望你也走出去，去發現值得你讚許的人，然後把一條藍色緞帶授給他，把多出的那條緞帶交給他，這樣他就能讚許第三人，將這個讚許儀式持續下去。
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（愛發脾氣的） fellow.
然後請你告訴我發生的一切。” 就在當天，那位年輕主管去見他的老闆，順便提一下，那個老闆是個公認的愛發脾氣的人。
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.
年輕主管請老闆坐下並告訴他說，他深深地崇拜他，因為他是一個富有創意的天才。老闆看起來很吃驚的樣子。年輕主管問他是否願意把那條藍色緞帶當作禮物來接受，能否允許他給他帶上。
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.
這位驚呆了的老闆回答道：“哦，當然。”於是，年輕主管便將藍色緞帶佩戴在他老闆的夾克衫上，心臟的正上方。
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