According to a news report， a certain private school in Victoria， BC recently was faced with a unique problem.

A number of grade 12 girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine， but after they put on their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night， the maintenance1 man would remove them and the next day， the girls would put them back.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian2 who had to clean the mirror every night.

To demonstrate3 how difficult it had been to clean the mirror， she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee4， dipped it in the toilet，and cleaned the mirror with it.

After that， there weren't lip prints left on the mirror any more.

據(jù)一則新聞報(bào)道所述，不列顛哥倫比亞省維多利亞市某私立學(xué)校最近面臨一個(gè)奇特的問題。

一些12年級的女生開始使用口紅，并在衛(wèi)生間里把它涂在嘴上。這倒沒什么，但是涂完口紅后，她們會(huì)用嘴唇在鏡子上留下數(shù)十個(gè)小唇印。

每天晚上，清潔工都要擦掉它們，但第二天，女孩們又會(huì)把唇印留在鏡子上。

最后校長決定采取行動(dòng)。她把所有的女生都召集到衛(wèi)生間里，并與清潔工一起去見她們。她指出那些唇印給清潔工制造了很大的麻煩，因?yàn)樗刻焱砩隙嫉貌羚R子。

為了說明把鏡子擦干凈有多困難，校長讓清潔工給女孩們演示這要花費(fèi)多大的力氣。

清潔工拿出一把長柄橡膠掃帚，把它放在馬桶里蘸一下，然后用它來擦拭鏡子。

從此以后，再也沒有唇印留在鏡子上了。

注釋

1．maintenance n． 維持；保持

2．custodian n． 看管人

3．demonstrate vt． 說明；演示

4．squeegee n． 橡皮刷帚