worshipCatching Crabs
1 In the fall of our final year, our mood changed. the relaxed atmosphere of the preceding summer mester, the impromptu ball games, the boating on the Charles River, the late-night parties had disappeared, and we all started to get our heads down, studying late, and attendance at class ro steeply again. We all nd we were coming to the end of our stay here, that we would never get a chance like this again, and we became determined not to waste it. Most important of cour were the final exams in April and May in the following year. No one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were once empty after five o'clock in the afternoon were standing room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride, like medals proving their diligence.
乐观英文
大学最后一年的秋天，我们的心情变了。刚刚过去的夏季学期的轻松氛围、即兴球赛、查尔斯河上的泛舟以及深夜晚会都不见了踪影，我们开始埋头学习，苦读到深夜，课堂出勤率再次急剧上升。我们都觉得在校时间不多了，以后再也不会有这样的学习机会了，所以都下定决心不再虚度光阴。当然，下一年四五月份的期末考试最为重要。我们谁都不想考全班倒数第一，那太丢人了，因此同学们之间的竞争压力特别大。以前每天下午五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了，现在却要等到天快亮时才会有空座，小伙子们熬夜熬出了眼袋，他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却很自豪，好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学的奖章。
2 But there was something el. At the back of everyone's mind was what we would do next, when we left university in a few months' time. It wasn't always the high flyers with the top grades who knew what they were going to do. Quite often it was the quieter, less impressive students who had the next stages of their life mapped out. One had landed a job in his brother's advertising firm in Madison Avenue, another had got a script under provisional acceptance in Hollywood. The most ambitious student among us was going to work as a party activist at a local level. We all saw him ending up in the Senate or in Congress one day. But most people were either looking to continue their studies, or to ma
ke a living with a white-collar job in a bank, local government, or anything which would pay them enough to have a comfortable time in their early twenties, and then ttle down with a family, a mortgage and some hope of promotion.
还有别的事情让大家心情焦虑。每个人都在心里盘算着过几个月毕业离校之后该找份什么样的工作。并不总是那些心怀抱负、成绩拔尖的高材生才清楚自己将来要做什么，常常是那些平日里默默无闻的同学早早为自己下几个阶段的人生做好了规划。有位同学在位于麦迪逊大道他哥哥的广告公司得到了一份工作，另一位同学写的电影脚本已经与好莱坞草签了合约。我们当中野心最大的一位同学准备到地方上当一个政党活动家，我们都预料他最终会当上参议员或国会议员。但大多数同学不是准备继续深造，就是想在银行、地方政府或其他单位当个白领，希望在20出头的时候能挣到足够多的薪水，过上舒适的生活，然后就娶妻生子，贷款买房，期望升职，过安稳日子。
3 I went home at Thanksgiving, and inevitably, mybrothers and sisters kept asking me what I was planning to do. I didn't know what to say. Actually, I did know what to say, but I thought they'd probably criticize me, so I told them what everyone el was thinking of doing.
lookahead感恩节的时候我回了一趟家，兄弟姐妹们免不了不停地问我毕业后有什么打算，我不知道该说什么。实际上，我知道该说什么，但我怕他们批评我，所以只对他们说了别人都准备干什么。
4 My father was watching me but saying nothing. Late in the evening, he invited me to his study. We sat down and he poured us a drink.
父亲看着我，什么也没说。夜深时，他叫我去他的书房。我们坐了下来，他给我们俩各倒了杯饮料。
5 "So?" he said “怎么样？”他问。
dppf6 "Er … so what?" impressing“啊，什么怎么样？”
7 "So what do you really want to do?" he asked. “你毕业后到底想做什么？”他问道。
bedove8 My father was a lawyer, and I had always assumed he wanted me to go to law school, and follow his path through life. So I hesitated.
父亲是一名律师，我一直都认为他想让我去法学院深造，追随他的人生足迹，所以我有点儿犹豫。
9 Then I replied, “I want to travel, and I want to be a writer.”
过了会儿我回答说：“我想旅行，我想当个作家。”
10 This was not the answer I thought he would expect. Travel? Where? A writer? About what? I braced mylf for some resistance to the idea.
序列号英文我想这不是他所期待的答案。旅行？去哪儿旅行？当作家？写什么呀？我做好了遭到他反对的心理准备。
11 There was a long silence. 接着是一段长长的沉默。
12 "Interesting idea," he said finally. “这想法有点意思，”他最后说。
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13 There was another long silence. 接着又是一段长长的沉默。
littlebear
hello ghost14 "I kind of wish I'd done that when I was your age." “我真有点希望自己在你这个年纪时能做这些事儿。”
