If I Were a Freshman Again

If I Were a Freshman Again

如果我能再次成为大一学生

Thomas Arkle Clark

1)

It

is

the

habit

of

age

to

give

sage

advice

to

youth.

One

of

the

pastimes

in

which

everyone

periodically indulges is the pleasant hallucination that if he were given the opportunity to live his

youth over again he would do it differently and more successfully. We are all of us, even though

we have no more than reached middle age, given to regretting our neglected opportunities and our

lost

youth.

It

gives

one

a

virtuous

feeling

in

imagination

to

dodge

all

error

but

it

is

extremely

doubtful

if

many

of

us,

even

if

we had

a

second

chance,

would

avoid

many

of

the

pitfalls

into

which we stumbled, or follow a straighter path than that by which we have so far come. If it is

merely

pleasant

for

us

to

conjecture

what

we

should

do

if

we

had

a

second

try

at

it,

it

may

be

profitable

for

those

who

are

younger

to

listen.

If

only

foresight

could

be

as

accurate

as

the

backward view!

1)

给年轻人一些金玉良言是老人们的习惯。大家偶尔喜欢的一种娱乐就是美滋滋地幻想如

果有机会再年轻一次，他会少走弯路、更加成功。

尽管不过人到中年，

我们都习惯于后悔曾

经坐失良机、

虚度青春，< /p>

这让我们在想像中有一种高尚的感觉

――

避免所有的错误。

而特

别值得怀疑的是，

即使有第二次机会，

我们当中的许多人真的就能避免我们犯过的错误，

或

者少走一些我们走过的弯路。如果说猜测再给一次机会我们会怎么做对于我们只是自我安

慰，

对于那些听我们讲故事的年轻人可能就会获益匪浅。

先 见要是与后见一样准确无误该多

好！

Work Fewer Hours

事半功倍

2) If I were a freshman again I should not work so many hours as I did. I put in enough hours with

my books in my hands, but I did not accomplish much. I had little concentration. Many students

whom I knew, and I was one of this sort, spent a great deal of time in getting ready to work. With

a book in hand they look out of the window at the clouds or at the pretty girls passing along the

street, and all the time they deceive themselves with the idea that they are working.

2)

如果我能再次成为大一学生，我会少花一些时间在学习上 。我手捧书本的时间是够了，

可是收效却甚微，

因为我有些心不 在焉。

我知道许多学生――我就是其中之一――把大量的

时间花 在做准备工作上，

他们手里拿着一本书，

眼睛却看着窗外的白云 或者街上走过的漂亮

女孩，而且从头到尾欺骗自己说自己在学习

3) Many an evening, when the work was heavy, I would determine to begin early and get it over

with;

but

I

could

spend

half

an

hour

in

arranging

my

books

and

getting

myself

seated

in

a

comfortable chair. All this time I imagined I was working. I spent as much time in goading myself

on to duties that I should have liked to shirk or in getting ready to work as I did in actual labor. If I

were a freshman I should plan my work, I should try to develop concentration ― I should work

harder but not so long.

3)

无数个傍晚，只要学习任务很重，我就会下决心早动手早完工，可是我可能会花半个小< /p>

时整理书本、坐到一把舒服的椅子上，在整个过程中，我一直想像自己是在学习。