Young people英文詩詞
Young people
每年的畢業(yè)都少不了亮麗的詞句和善意的謊言。而一位35年前的畢業(yè)生，用親身體驗(yàn)道出了一番獨(dú)特的'畢業(yè)。
Scanning through my e-mails the other day, one in particular jumped out at me. The subject line read: "Note from Lyndonville Central School."
Since I graduated from that fine institution of learning what seems like 147 years ago, I opened it first. It was from a man who teaches math there now, a man who was a few grades behind me, a man who was inviting me, on behalf of the student council, to speak at Class Day<注1> in June."I would like to invite you 'back home,' " he wrote. "What do you think?"
What do I think?
I don't know.
The last time I spoke at Lyndonville Central School was graduation night of 1967. I can't remember exactly what I said that warm June evening, but I fear I proclaimed, among other things, that I was going to change the world, make it a better place for mankind, cure cancer and stop the spread of the leisure suit, the fashion faux pas<注2> that was sweeping the country.
I came through only on<注3> the leisure suit promise. It was on the road to extinction by the following spring.
But people will cut you some slack<注4> when you're 17. I distinctly remember applause. Perhaps they were just happy that I finally shut up, I don't know. At the time, I took it as a positive response, grabbed my diploma and got out of town. Never looked back, as they say.<注5>
And now western New York was calling me home.
If I go, what would I say this time around? What would I share with these kids who were me 35 years ago, sitting there in the bleachers, eager to get on with life?<注6>
I've always been wary of adults bearing advice.<注7> Any adult who has ever tried to give me any over the years will vouch for that. (Not that I consider myself an adult, but I look like one now, so I can infiltrate places adults frequent and pass for one if I must.)<注8>
Would I fall into that cliche<注9> pool of graduation speeches? Follow your dreams! Climb every mountain! Go out there and make a difference! Carpe diem!<注10>
Or would I be brutally<注11> honest and tell them they'll be working for the next 50 years, have children who will think them fools and more than likely have as little hair as I do? And when all that's over, there will be no Social Security Check<注12> for them, ause I will have already spent it.Actually, I'm not sure it really matters what I'd say.
I'm sure there's a Class Day picnic they'll be itching to get to, a girl or boyfriend they'll be flirting with across the auditorium, a school's-almost-out daydream that will happily occupy their thoughts the whole time I might be speaking<注13>.
I should know. I don't have a clue what any of my end-of-high-school speakers said. All I remember is they were old, rambled on<注14> for far too long and all looked like someone I would hope I'd never ome.
And now I have.
1. Class Day：畢業(yè)紀(jì)念日。
2. faux pas：（法）不檢點(diǎn)的話（或行為）
3. come through on sth.：成功、實(shí)現(xiàn)。
4. cut sb. some slack：對某人表示理解。
5. 當(dāng)時(shí)，在自以為是贊許的掌聲中，我一把拿過畢業(yè)證，象他們說的那樣頭也不回地離開了鎮(zhèn)子，。
6. 這些孩子們恍如35年前的我，和他們我能談些什么呢？他們就坐在露天看臺(tái)上，一副對生活躍躍欲試的樣子。bleacher：（美）運(yùn)動(dòng)場的露天座位。
7. 我一向?qū)φ佌伣陶d的大人們心存戒備。be wary of : 提防，小心。
8. 過去幾年，凡是試圖忠告我的成年人都可以證明這一點(diǎn)。我沒把自己當(dāng)成年人，但因?yàn)槲议L得像，所以必要時(shí)我能經(jīng)常混跡于成人場合并被當(dāng)作其中的一員。
9. cliches：陳詞濫調(diào)、套話。
10. carpe diem：size the day（拉）及時(shí)行樂，這里指珍惜大好時(shí)光。
11. brutally：殘酷的、不中聽的。
12. Social Security Check：社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)支票。（美國的）社會(huì)保障制度（1935年美國政府通過“社會(huì)保障條例”，據(jù)此對老年人或殘疾人員，以及貧苦、失業(yè)工人給予最低額救濟(jì)金）。Social Security Number:社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)號(hào)碼。
13. be itching to：渴望去做。 to flirt with：調(diào)情、賣俏。 school's-almost-out：全校傾巢而出。我想一定會(huì)有一個(gè)盼望已久的畢業(yè)紀(jì)念日野餐，一個(gè)女孩或許正和她的男朋友在會(huì)場里調(diào)笑、可能自始至終我一邊，臺(tái)下的學(xué)生們滿腦子裝的卻都是全校外出日的美夢。
14. ramble on： 漫談，文中指嘮叨個(gè)沒完。
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