選擇作品：College Pressure?by William Zinsser

????????“懸在我們每一個人頭上的焦慮之劍。”

? ? ? ? “我們中的大多數(shù)都在經歷這樣的焦慮……”

????????“有時候只需要上帝的手，將我們推向這樣或者那樣的未來……”

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????????耶魯大學的學院院長最近總是收到學生們的留言，留言內容各不相同，卻呈現(xiàn)出千篇一律的焦慮——紳士的時代一去不復返，自由下行的社會環(huán)境倡導將大學生活編碼為兩點一線的“pre-rich”，暴富前教育……

????????從前的學生總愛提出這樣的問題：“要怎樣才能終止世界上的悲慘與苦難呢？”如今，學生們更常咨詢道，“您覺得我是進入法學院發(fā)展更好，還是進入醫(yī)學院？”

內容干貨

1.作者簡介，作品梗概

????????作者簡介：William Zinsser was a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer—he began his career on the New York Herald Tribune in 1946—and was also a teacher, best known for his book On Writing Well.His 18 other books range from commentary (The Writer Who Stayed), memoir (Writing Places; Writing About Your Life) to travel (American Places), jazz (Mitchell & Ruff), American popular song (Easy to Remember), baseball (Spring Training) and the craft of writing (Writing to Learn). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers.

????????Notable Works：Writing Well, The Writer Who Stayed

????????作品梗概：In this article, the author discussed a heated topic: college pressure. He took the phenomenon in Yale university as an example and dug into the core of it. In an era filled with ambition and anxiety, the true essence of education is fading away. We are not producing world-viewers but bread-winners with high salaries. With the economy nose-diving, the whole system above fluctuates……?

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2.單詞詞組，地道表達

????（1）人生快車道概念疾馳的年代，原本blithe的大學教育被codify為under the creek的焦慮流水線——the only end of college is pre-rich. 教育從試錯導向轉化為結果導向，似乎人生就是proverbially一方通行的單行道。What a wretched existence these students are! 學生們無法shuffle，被laden with woe，在賞味期不能savor，不曾知味就要求做出縝密的人生藍圖并按圖索驥。我們聽見the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn，我們描摹人生的blueprint before we could.

????（2）但不確定性才是studded on人生鑲嵌畫的最美裝飾。而如今我們已經很難 allow the hand of God or chance to nudge 我們 down some unforeseen trail. 應當提出的是，我們只是希望求得 some release from the clammy grip of the future. 一種 to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself的機會，而不是as a grim preparation for the next step. 我們稀得the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world，狹隘的社會意義上的成功并不是人生的全部。

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3.文章佳句，沉浸賞析

????????室友前后腳出入教室辦公室，相互抱怨彼此“太卷了”……

?????????I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “Who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I couldn’t tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

????????一個人在簡介上的面孔比其在現(xiàn)實中的血肉更重要……

??? ?????l Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person.

????????放下對未來掌控感的執(zhí)念。教育本身是實驗，是試錯的機會，不是過獨木橋。

?????????l What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself，and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

4.主旨哲思，流連賞玩

?????????人生需要不確定性，沒有確定的人生地圖——人生不是按圖索驥。

????????“Mainly I try to remind them that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don’t want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now—that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave. ”

?????????教育是去體驗，去領悟；而不是機械地為未來鋪磚。

????????I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself，and not as a grim preparation for the next step.

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??????（College Students） can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail……

????????到底什么是大學教育？它的初衷、呈現(xiàn)形式、產出結果究竟是什么？本文寫作于10余年前，但是我們仍然經歷著這些問題。囚徒困境、經濟下行等等現(xiàn)實問題，都讓追求安穩(wěn)人生的大學生們膽戰(zhàn)心驚。

????????我們的未來究竟怎么走？大學的意義究竟是什么？讀了這篇文章，我想你會有一些思考。