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牛津高中英语
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Growing pains
Growing pains
Many teenagers feel lonely, as if no
one understands them and the changes they are
going through.
Day by day, everything
seems different, yet the same. Life never seems to
be going fast enough;
yet, in other
ways, like a race car, life seems to be rushing
too fast and even going out of control.
Has anyone else ever felt this way?
These feelings are a common part of
adolescence
—
the time of
life between child and adult. And,
though it may some times be difficult to believe,
you are not
alone
—
every adult
has gone through adolescence, and your friends are
going through it right now
along with
you. It is common for teenagers to feel lonely and
misunderstood. These feelings can
be
thought of as growing
pains
—
the difficulties that
teenagers face as they grow to adults.
As teenagers grow, it is
normal for them to become confused with the
changing world both inside
and outside
of them. During adolescence, teenagers go through
great physical changes. They grow
taller
and
their
voices
get
deeper,
among
many
other
developments.
Along
with
these
physical
changes,
there
come
many
psychological
changes.
Boys
and
girls
tend
to
be
different
in
this
regard. Many boys become risk-
takers
—
they want to find
their own limits and the limits of the
world around them, but may not have the
wisdom to make good choices in their behavior. At
the
same
time,
girls
often
want
someone
—
anyone
—
to
talk
to,
as
they
try
to
deal
with
their
strong
feelings. In the social world, as
teenagers get older, they struggle to depend on
themselves. They
may
badly
want
and
need
their
parents
’
love,
yet
feel
distant;
they
may
want
to
be
part
of
the
group, yet desire independence. Since
teenagers have difficulty balancing these needs,
they often
question who they are and
how they fit in society. The good news is that
these kinds of growing
pains do not
last. In the end everything turns out
OK
—
the teenager becomes a
healthy adult, and
this period of
change and challenge is traded for the changes and
challenges of grown-up life.
好在这些成长的烦恼并
不会持久。
最终一切都会好起来——青少年成长为健康的成年人，
而
青春期的变化和挑战则转变为成人生活中的种种变化和挑战。
在大千社会中，
随着青少年长
大，他们努力地自力更生。他们
或许迫切需要父母的关爱，却又感觉疏远；
他们或许想要成
为团
体的一员，
但又渴望独立。
正因为青少年们在平衡这些需要时有
困难，
所以他们经常质
疑自己到底是谁以及怎样融入社会。与这
些生理变化同时而来的，还有很多心理上的变化。
男孩和女孩在这方面往往有所不同。<
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很多男孩成为危险尝试者——他们希望找到自己的局限
和他们周边
世界的局限，
但也许并不具有对其行为作出正确抉择的智慧。
而
与此同时，
女孩
则通常需要和某个人——或任何人——进行交谈
，因为她们试图面对自己强烈的情感。
在青少年成长的时候，对自己无论
体内还是体外的状态变化感到困惑对他们而言是正常现
象。在青春期，青少年经历着身体
上的巨大变化。他们个子长高，声音变低，还有很多其他
的成长发育。这些感觉是青春期
——介于孩童和成人之间的人生阶段——的正常组成部分。
而且，
虽然有时难以相信，
并非只有你才是这样——每一个成年人都经历过青春期，
而你的
朋友和你一样正经历这个阶段。
对青少年
而言，
感到孤独和被误解是很普遍的。
这些情感可
以看作是成长的烦恼——是青少年迈向成年时所面对的困难。
成长的烦恼很多
青少年感到孤
独，
好像没有人理解他们以及他们正在经历的变化
。
日子一天天过去，
而所有事情似乎都是
不同的，可又都是一成不变的。
生活似乎从不过得足够快；而从别的方面看，生活似乎
过得
太快甚至于失控，像开赛车一样。别的人也有过同感么？
Home alone
Mom
and Dad arrive back from vacation a day earlier
than expected. The curtains are closed
and the living room is dark when Mom
and Dad enter. Dad: It
’
s so
nice to be home!
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