20到30岁，是人生最不可挥霍的时光！
这一阶段是人生的关键期，然而，20多岁的年轻人，也是最容易感到困惑迷茫，最可能虚度时光的。
MegJay是一名心理咨询师，20多岁时，MegJay在伯克利大学读临床心理学博士。
她的第一个患者Alex是个26岁的女孩，面对Alex的混乱情况，20多岁的MegJay不知道要给她怎样的建议。
毕竟工作、婚姻、孩子，甚至是死亡，都要等以后才来。
有一天，她的导师让她意识到“这种‘善意的疏忽’是个真正的问题”。
她说，社会、媒体都在宣扬着20多岁是“后青春期”，20多岁的人还没有长大等观念，而这些剥夺了你应该有的紧迫感和志向。
事实上，20岁是成人发展的关键阶段，这段时间会塑造你的未来。
MegJay告诫20多岁的年轻人，不要挥霍时光，更不要把所有的压力都留给30岁，不要指望30岁弥补20岁的缺失。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 岁 | suì | classifier for years (of age) |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 人生 | rén shēng | life (one's time on earth) |
| 最 | zuì | (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est |
| 不可 | bù kě | cannot; should not; must not |
| 挥霍 | huī huò | to squander money |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 时光 | shí guāng | time / era / period of time |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 阶段 | jiē duàn | stage / section / phase / period |
| 关键 | guān jiàn | crucial / pivotal |
| 期 | qī | a period of time / phase / stage / time / term / period |
| 然而 | rán ér | however; but; yet |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 年轻 | nián qīng | young |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 容易 | róng yì | likely; liable to; apt to |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
| 困惑 | kùn huò | bewildered / perplexed / confused |
| 迷茫 | mí máng | vast and indistinct / perplexed / bewildered / at a loss |
| 可能 | kě néng | possible / probable |
| 虚度 | xū dù | to fritter away (one's time) |
| 名 | míng | classifier for people |
| 心理 | xīn lǐ | psychology; mentality |
| 咨询师 | zī xún shī | counselor; consultant |
| 时 | shí | when |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 伯克利大学 | Bó kè lì Dà xué | University of California, Berkeley |
| 读 | dú | to attend (school); to study (a subject in school) |
| 临床 | lín chuáng | clinical |
| 心理学 | xīn lǐ xué | psychology |
| 博士 | bó shì | doctor (as an academic degree) |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 患者 | huàn zhě | patient; sufferer |
| 女孩 | nǚ hái | girl; lass |
| 面对 | miàn duì | to face; to confront |
| 混乱 | hùn luàn | confused; chaotic; disorderly |
| 情况 | qíng kuàng | circumstances; state of affairs; situation |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 给 | gěi | to give |
| 怎样 | zěn yàng | what kind |
| 建议 | jiàn yì | proposal; suggestion; recommendation |
| 毕竟 | bì jìng | after all / all in all / when all is said and done / in the final analysis |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | job / work / task |
| 婚姻 | hūn yīn | marriage; matrimony |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 甚至 | shèn zhì | even; so much so that |
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | death |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 等 | děng | to wait for; to await |
| 以后 | yǐ hòu | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future |
| 才 | cái | then and only then |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 有一天 | yǒu yì tiān | one day; at some unspecified day in the past or future |
| 导师 | dǎo shī | tutor / teacher / academic advisor |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 意识 | yì shí | (usu. followed by 到) to be aware of; to realize |
| 种 | zhǒng | classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 善意 | shàn yì | goodwill / benevolence / kindness |
| 疏忽 | shū hu | negligence / carelessness |
| 真正 | zhēn zhèng | genuine; real; true |
| 问题 | wèn tí | question / problem / issue / topic |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 社会 | shè huì | society |
| 媒体 | méi tǐ | media, esp. news media |
| 宣扬 | xuān yáng | to publicize; to advertise; to spread far and wide |
| 着 | zhe | aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 后 | hòu | behind / later / post- |
| 青春 | qīng chūn | youth / youthfulness |
| 还 | hái | still, still in progress, yet |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | haven't / hasn't |
| 长大 | zhǎng dà | to grow up |
| 观念 | guān niàn | notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions |
| 而 | ér | but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates contrast) |
| 些 | xiē | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several |
| 剥夺 | bō duó | to deprive / to expropriate / to strip (sb of his property) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 你 | nǐ | you |
| 应该 | yīng gāi | ought to; should; must |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 紧迫 | jǐn pò | pressing / urgent |
| 感 | gǎn | (suffix) sense of ~ |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 志向 | zhì xiàng | ambition / goal / ideal / aspiration |
| 事实 | shì shí | fact |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 成人 | chéng rén | an adult |
| 发展 | fā zhǎn | development / growth |
| 段 | duàn | classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc |
| 时间 | shí jiān | time |
| 会 | huì | to be likely to; to be sure to |
| 塑造 | sù zào | to model; to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words) |
| 未来 | wèi lái | future / tomorrow |
| 告诫 | gào jiè | to warn / to admonish |
| 更 | gèng | more / even more / further / still / still more |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 所有 | suǒ yǒu | all |
| 压力 | yā lì | pressure |
| 留 | liú | to retain / to keep / to preserve |
| 指望 | zhǐ wàng | to count on; to hope for |
| 弥补 | mí bǔ | to complement / to make up for a deficiency |
| 缺失 | quē shī | lack; deficiency / shortcoming; flaw; defect |