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Chapter 9

19.我三十岁了，如果我再年轻五岁的话，我说不定会自己欺骗自己把这称之为美德的。

I’m thirty. I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.etic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

20.他经过慢慢追索才来到了这片蓝色的草地上，他的梦想一定已经离得他如此之近以至于他几乎不会抓不到它了。他不知道他的梦想已经被甩在了他的身后，已经隐藏在了城市以外的冥蒙之中，在那里共和国的黑暗的土地在黑夜中延伸着……

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

21.为此，我们将顶住那不停地退回到过去的潮头奋力向前。

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

22.我们继续奋力向前，逆水行舟，被不断地向后推，直至回到往昔岁月。

It eluded us then,but that's no matter to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...and one fine morning. So we beat on,boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly nto the past