【新地平线英语】（第二册）人生的意义岂止是谋生(1/6)

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概述：
        人们常常说: 对于青春来说，最令人悲伤的事情莫过于青春在年轻时被浪费掉了。。。
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        Macon
        Robins Resident Center
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It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young.
Reading a survey report on first-year college students, I recalled the regret, "If only I knew then what I know now."
The survey revealed what I had already suspected from informal polls of students both in Macon and at the Robins Resident Center: If it whatever it may be won't compute and you can't drink it, smoke it or spend it, then "it" holds little value.
According to the survey based on responses from over 188,000 students, today's college beginners are "more consumeristic and less idealistic" than at any time in the 17 years of the poll.人们常常说: 对于青春来说，最令人悲伤的事情莫过于青春在年轻时被浪费掉了。
在阅读一份对大学一年级新生作的调查报告时，我又想起了这种惋惜之情: "要是当初我就懂得了我到现在才领悟到的东西, 该有多好！"
这份调查报告揭示了我以前在梅肯和罗宾斯学生寄宿中心对学生进行的非正式民意调查的结果：学生们认为如果某种东西 (不管它是何物) 没有实际的经济意义，你不能把它当酒喝、当烟抽、当钱花，那么"它"就简直毫无价值。
根据以188, 000多名学生的答卷为基础的调查，当今的大学新生比这项民意测验开始以来的17年中的任何时候的大学新生都 "更主张消费，但少了点理想"。