If you do badly on a test, you may be tempted to believe that you've received some fundamental information about yourself from the professor, information that says you are a failure in some significant way.

如果你考试成绩不好的话，也许会忍不住相信你从老师那儿获得了某些关于自己的基本信息，那些显示你在某些重要的方面是个失败者的信息。