羅伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森/ Robert Louis Stevenson
羅伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森(1850—1894)，英國著名小說家、詩人與旅遊作家，也是英國文學新浪漫主義的代表之一。史蒂文森是最多產的作家之一。他的浪漫冒險小說是自《沃爾特·斯科特爵士》問世以來英國最受公眾喜愛的作品。小說《金銀島》是其代表作，是關於尋找海盜寶藏的故事，也是他的浪漫小說中最受歡迎的一部，同時還是最受歡迎的英語兒童書籍之一。
Practicing for Better Learning
Think about the questions before you read this article.
1. When you were young, what did you want to be?
2. Do you have any idea how to spend the most precious time in your life?
As we grow old, a sort of equable jog-trot of feeling is substituted for the violent ups and downs of passion and disgust; the same influence that restrains our hopes, quiets our apprehensions; if the pleasures are less intense, the troubles are milder and more tolerable; and in a word, this period for which we are asked to hoard up everything as for a time of famine, is, in its own right, the richest, easiest, and happiest of life. Nay, by managing its own work and following its own happy inspiration, youth is doing the best it can to endow the leisure of age. A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into the bore. There are not many Doctor Johnsons, to set forth upon their first romantic voyage at sixty-four. If we wish to scale Mont Blanc or go down in a diving dress or up in a balloon, we must be about it while we are still young. It will not do to delay until we are clogged with prudence and limping with rheumatism and people begin to ask us:“What does Gravity out of bed?”Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a
mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud HERNANI.
參考譯文
在我們漸漸變老的過程中，一種平淡而緩慢的感覺替代了強烈的愛憎沉浮；同樣的感覺讓我們收斂自己的希望，撫慰我們的憂懼。如果說快樂能少幾分**，那麽煩惱也變得更加微不足道，更能夠忍受。總之，在這段時間裏，我們需要儲備一切，以備不時之需。在整個生命的曆程中，這段時間是最豐富多彩、最閑適、最幸福的。不僅如此，通過管理自己的行為，跟隨快樂的靈感而動，年輕人在竭盡全力賦予自己的時代以安逸的成分。充實、忙碌的青年時代是獨立、自由的晚年生活的前奏；那些不能完成這些的人，其晚年生活不可避免是令人厭煩的。這個世界上，約翰遜博士並不多，在64歲的時候才開始他們的第一次浪漫之旅。如果我們想要丈量勃朗峰，或是穿著潛水服潛水，或是坐著熱氣球升天，就必須趁著年輕去做，不要等到變得謹小慎微、腿腳不便的時候才想著去做。那樣的話，人們就會問我們：“怎麽這麽不安分？”無論是腦力還是體力上，青年時代都是周遊世界的時期。去領略不同國家的人文風情；去聆聽午夜的鍾聲；去觀看城市與鄉村的日出；去虔誠悔過；去統覽玄學，編寫牽強的詩句，跑遠路去看篝火，還為了給《艾那尼》喝彩而在劇院等上一天。
心靈小語
及時行樂！我們慢慢變老的時候，平淡和緩慢漸漸代替了強烈的沉浮，也讓我們收斂了希望。有些事，就要趁著年輕去做，不能等到變得謹小慎微、腿腳不便才想著去做。
Ace in the Hole
Keywords and expressions
substitute ['s?bstitju:t]
作名詞，譯為“代替者；代用品”
作動詞，譯為“代替”
短語：substituteAfor B :用A來代替B
例名：You can substitute margarine for butter.
你可以用人造奶油代替奶油。
replace [ri'pleis]
作動詞，譯為“歸還把…放回原處；代替”
短語：replaceAwith/by B :用B代替A
辨析：substitute賓語是被接替者，常用介詞for引出被代替的部分。Replace賓語是被替換的對象，常與介詞by或with連用，引出替代者。
例：1. He picked them up and replaced them in the bag.
他把它們撿了起來，放回包裏。
2. We shall soon replae coal by electricity.
我們不久將用電代替煤。
Now a Try
Translate the following sentences into English.
1.這位廚師試圖找出代替巧克力的食材。
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2.當她聽到這個消息時，她無法抑製自己的憤怒。
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Write two sentences that using“substiute”and“replace”.
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