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今天我们来看看美国大学生毕业时的光辉场景...嘿嘿，说到这个小编还真有感触，以前总不明白别人为什么会说人生最美好的时候是在大学里度过的...现在参加工作了,才真正明白了：大学时光是你最自由的时光，工作以后就不得不听别人的了~~所以同学们，珍惜眼前所有的哟！


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This is graduation time at a lot of colleges. The average graduation lasts more than two hours. If you're one of almost two million kids lucky enough to be graduating this year, I can tell you, there aren't many days in your life that will be as good or as sweet or as sad.

You may not want to know, but graduating isn't going to be as much fun this year because what you want now is a job and there aren't as many of them as there are of you. Jobs are always scarce when you're looking for one.

I never graduated from college. Just two weeks after my junior year ended, I was drafted into the Army for World War II. After four years in the Army my father asked me if I wanted to go back and finish college and I just laughed at him - I had whatever education I was going to get in the Army. Maybe you can tell.

I envy all the young people getting diplomas now. There's something about a college campus graduation day that's just great, incomparable really.

One day a few years ago, I sat for several hours in a cap and gown in a steady rain behind a college president as he handed out 516 diplomas. You might think it was a dreary experience, but it was a wonderful experience. Every face of the 516 kids who came up to get their diploma was a life about to be lived and I loved it.

I found myself guessing who would be successful, and who wouldn't be, who'd have a good job, who'd be happily married and who wouldn't be.

When some of them were up there, their classmates cheered. They knew why they cheered but they knew something about the person up there that I didn't know.

One big, awkward boy waved his diploma over his head and his classmates hooted. You just knew that he was the one who almost didn't make it - but he made it.

Graduations are not what's wrong with the world.
重点词汇
Last: 持续
How long will the meeting last?
会议要开多久?

Scarce:
1. 缺乏的;不足的
Food and fuel were scarce in this region.
这地区食物和燃料都很缺乏。
2. 稀有的,珍贵的
Very old stamps are scarce.
年代久的邮票是珍贵的。

Envy: 妒忌;羡慕
I envy you your good luck.
我羡慕你的好运。

Incomparable:
1. 无比的,无双的,无可匹敌的
incomparable wealth
无比的财富
2. 不能比较的;无相比之共同基础的[(+to/with)]
This revised edition is incomparable with the earlier ones.
这一修订本不可与先前的版本同日而语。

Dreary:
1. 沉闷的,阴郁的,令人沮丧的
It was a dreary day, cold and without sunshine.
那一天天气阴郁,既冷又没有阳光。
2. 枯燥的,令人生厌的
Copying manuscripts all the time is dreary work.
老是抄写手稿是件枯燥乏味的差事。