【新编大学英语】（第一册）Unit 4 C 新的开始（2/4）

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13秒处有引号。What does it mean to be a freshman on the first day of the semester? Professor Patterson views it as a new beginning. She continued:
"It makes me think of those early spring days when the snow is melting. One cannot step down anywhere without splashing. Even when I am cold and wet, I cannot hate those days; they tell me spring is coming. Freshman arrival is also a mess, but I cannot hate it either. Freshmen appear in town like young green shoots sprouting up everywhere, looking for light. Their faces hang out of the windows of dorms like fresh new buds on an old, old tree. Someone else may worry about the sun and the soil and the possibility of frost, but for both young plants and freshmen it is enough to be alive and here."