结束了Ron的课，但结束不掉对他的印象。从{dy}次见他，哇蓝的眼睛特本土、特纯粹，让人不敢直视，好像能把人看穿。我生性就不爱直视别人的眼睛，有人觉得是不真诚或不信任，而我觉得是一种冒犯。

Ron带给我们很多地道的英语，好像之前十几年的英语修炼都不如这一季来的势如破竹和雨后春笋。{zh1}一课他给我们看一个英语演讲的视频：Wear sunscreen ，好像是耶鲁大学的毕业致词，文字非常地道，意义非常深远。 久旱逢甘霖般滋润了我们干涸许久的心，豁然开朗的异彩纷呈。

谨以此文纪念Ron，也勉励一下自己。  

Wear sunscreen.
擦防晒油

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

如果我只可以给你一个忠告，那只能是防晒油。科学家已经证实了防晒油的好处，以下的其它忠告只是我个人的生活经验，没有太多的十分可靠的基础，我现在来和大家分享。

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

享受你的青春的力量和美丽，哦，算了，只有等到你的青春逝去，你才会明白它的力量和美丽。但相信我，20年后，你重新翻开你自己的旧照片，才会惊奇地发现你曾经是那么好看，而那么多的机会曾在你面前出现。你不是像你想像中的那么胖。

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

不要担心未来，或者是担心，但清楚担心的作用就和试图用嚼香口胶来解代数方程式一样，你生活中真正的困难更会是那些你从未想到的事，那些在一个无所事事的星期二突然出现的事。

Do one thing every day that scares you.

每天做一件你畏惧的事。

Sing.

歌唱。

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

不要怠慢别人的一片心意，不要忍受怠慢你的心意的人。

Floss.

放松。

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

不要把时间浪费在嫉妒上，有时你在前面，有时你在后面，路还很长，{zh1}，你只是和自己在竞争。

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

记住你得到的赞扬，忘记那些侮辱。如果你真的做到了，告诉我怎么做的。

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

保留你的旧情信，丢掉旧银行帐单。

Stretch.

伸展四肢。

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

如果你还不知道你人生的计划，不要觉得内疚。我认识的最有意思的人在他们22岁时也不知道，有些最有趣的人在40岁时仍不知道。

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

汲取大量的钙，善待你的膝盖，当他们不在时，你会怀念他们。

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

也许你会结婚，也许你不会；也许你会有孩子，也许你不会；也许你会在40岁时离婚，也许你会在你75年结婚纪念日上大跳小鸡舞。无论如何，不要太得意忘形，或苛求过高，你选择正确的机会永远是一半一半，和其他人一样。

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

享受你的身体，力所能及地使用它，不要害怕它，也不要害怕其他人怎么说，它是你所有拥有过的工具中最棒的。

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

跳舞，即使只能在你的客厅里跳。

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

仔细阅读路标，即使你不跟从它们。

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

不要看时装杂志，它们只会让你觉得自己很丑。

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

了解你的父母，你永远不会知道他们什么时候会不在。善待你的兄弟姐妹，他们是与你的过去的{zh0}的联系，也是最有可能在你的未来中出现的人。

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

要认识到生活中朋友来来去去，但对于一些少数珍贵的朋友要把握好，不要让空间和生活方式分开你们，因为当你老了时，你最需要的就是从年轻时就认识你的朋友。

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

一定要在纽约住一段时间，但要在它使你变得冷酷前离去；要在南加州住一段时间，但在它使你变得软弱前离去。旅游。

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

接受一些不可改变的事实：价格会涨，政客会玩弄权术，你，也会老；而当你老时，你会幻想，当你年轻时，价格是合理的，政客是高贵的，孩子们尊重他们的长辈。

Respect your elders.

尊重你的长辈。

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

不要期望任何人养你，也许你有一个信托基金，也许你有一个富有的配偶，但你永远不会知道什么时候就会用完。

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

不要在你的头发上花太多心思，不然你40岁时，看起来会像85岁。

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

小心选择你听从的建议，但对于提供它们的人要耐心；建议是一种乡愁，人们往往把它从过去的回忆中抽取出来，擦干净，粉饰一新，再将它以高于其原有价值地提供给别人。

But trust me on the sunscreen.

但在防晒油这一点建议上相信我。