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table, the room was silent. Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice that he was thecenter of attention. Gradually conversation and noise started up again, and Ender could relax enough to lookaround.One entire wall of the room was a scoreboard. Soldiers were kept aware of an army's overall record for the pasttwo years; in here, however, records were kept for each commander. A new commander couldn't inherit a goodstanding from his predecessor -- he was ranked according to what he had done.Ender had the best ranking. A perfect won-lost record, of course, but in the other categories he was far ahead.Average soldiers-disabled, average enemy-disabled, average time-elapsed-before-victory -- in every category hewas ranked first.When he was nearly through eating, someone came up behind him and touched his shoulder."Mind if I sit?" Ender didn't have to turn around to know it was Dink Meeker."Ho Dink," said Ender. "Sit.""You gold-plated fart," said Dink cheerfully, "We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are amiracle or a mistake.""A habit," said Ender."One victory is not a habit," Dink said. "Don't get cocky. When you're new they seed you against weakcommanders.""Carn Carby isn't exactly on the bottom of the rankings." It was true, Carby was just about in the middle."He's OK," Dink said, "considering that he only just started. Shows some promise. You don't show promise.You show threat."第 192 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网