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繪◎夏日已盡

lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent ability. The idea is to grow up by always fi nding the opportunity in change.

Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did,but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One

week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended

her funeral⑥to honor the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

“不要留有遺憾。老年人通常不會為做過的事遺憾，而是為還沒有做過的事情感到遺憾。只有那些有遺憾的人才會怕死?！?/p>

年底的時候，羅斯獲得了大學學位。畢業(yè)一星期后，她在夢中安詳?shù)仉x開了人世。兩千多名大學生參加了她的葬禮，來紀念這位通過自己的親身經(jīng)歷來告訴我們永遠都可以成就自己的理想的了不起的老人。

① motivate 英 ['m??t?ve?t] 美 ['mot?'vet]vt. 刺激；使有動機；激發(fā)……的積極性

② instant 英 ['?nst(?)nt] 美 ['?nst?nt]adj. 立即的；緊急的；緊迫的

③ semester 英 [s?'mest?] 美 [s??m?st?] n. 學期；半年

④ deliver 英 [d?'l?v?] 美 [d?'l?v?] vt. 交付；發(fā)表；遞送；

⑤stop doing sth. 停下正在做的事

⑥ funeral 英 ['fju?n(?)r(?)l] 美 ['fjun?r?l] n. 葬禮；麻煩事