今年6月，家住上海的一位老人获得了中国美术学院的双学士学位，从中国画专业顺利毕业。
老人名叫徐安玲，1951年出生，今年已经70岁了。
徐安玲现在还清楚地记得自己上大学的第一天。
她走进教室时，一群二十多岁的年轻学生都以为她走错教室了，甚至有人以为她是哪位同学的家长。
进入大学以后，繁重的学习带给她很大的压力。
别的年轻学生每天练习3-4小时，她只能靠更勤奋的练习来弥补自己的不足。
她永远是班上第一个到教室，最后一个离开的人。
她从小就喜欢用铅笔画画，参加工作以后忙碌的工作生活让她放下了画笔，但是这个爱好一直没变。
退休后，在她58岁那年，她重新拿起了画笔。
现在她终于顺利毕业了。
家人们也都很支持她退休之后追寻梦想的做法。
她也将自己的一部分作品留给家乡，因为那是自己的梦开始的地方。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 今年 | jīn nián | this year |
| 月 | yuè | month / monthly |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 住 | zhù | to live; to reside; to stay |
| 上海 | Shàng hǎi | Shanghai municipality |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 位 | wèi | classifier for people (honorific) |
| 老人 | lǎo rén | old man or woman / the elderly |
| 获得 | huò dé | to obtain; to receive; to get |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 中国美术学院 | Zhōng guó Měi shù Xué yuàn | China Academy of Art; a fine arts university in China. |
| 双 | shuāng | two / double / both / even (number) |
| 学士 | xué shì | bachelor's degree / person holding a university degree |
| 学位 | xué wèi | academic degree / place in school |
| 从 | cóng | from; through; via / (bound form) retainer; attendant / (bound form) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor |
| 中国 | Zhōng guó | China |
| 画 | huà | picture; painting |
| 专业 | zhuān yè | specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major |
| 顺利 | shùn lì | smoothly; without a hitch |
| 毕业 | bì yè | to graduate / to finish school |
| 名 | míng | name |
| 叫 | jiào | to be called |
| 徐安玲 | Xú Ān líng | a personal name, Xu Anling |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 出生 | chū shēng | to be born |
| 已经 | yǐ jīng | already |
| 岁 | suì | classifier for years (of age) |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 还 | hái | still, still in progress, yet |
| 清楚 | qīng chu | clear / distinct |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 记得 | jì de | to remember |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 上 | shàng | to attend (class or university) |
| 大学 | dà xué | university / college |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 走 | zǒu | to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / to change (shape, form, meaning) |
| 进 | jìn | to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit |
| 教室 | jiào shì | classroom |
| 时 | shí | when |
| 群 | qún | group / crowd / flock, herd, pack etc |
| 二十 | èr shí | twenty; 20 |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 年轻 | nián qīng | young |
| 学生 | xué shēng | student / schoolchild |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 以为 | yǐ wéi | to think; to believe |
| 错 | cuò | wrong / bad / interlocking / complex |
| 甚至 | shèn zhì | even; so much so that |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 哪 | něi | which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) |
| 同学 | tóng xué | fellow student / classmate |
| 家长 | jiā zhǎng | head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child |
| 进入 | jìn rù | to enter / to join / to go into |
| 以后 | yǐ hòu | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future |
| 繁重 | fán zhòng | heavy / burdensome / heavy-duty / arduous / onerous |
| 学习 | xué xí | to learn / to study |
| 带 | dài | to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear / to bring |
| 给 | gěi | to / for / for the benefit of / to do sth (for sb) |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 压力 | yā lì | pressure |
| 别的 | bié de | else / other |
| 每 | měi | each / every |
| 练习 | liàn xí | to practice |
| 小时 | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 只 | zhǐ | only; merely; just |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 靠 | kào | to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) |
| 更 | gèng | more / even more / further / still / still more |
| 勤奋 | qín fèn | hardworking / diligent |
| 来 | lái | (between two verbs) in order to |
| 弥补 | mí bǔ | to complement / to make up for a deficiency |
| 不足 | bù zú | deficiency |
| 永远 | yǒng yuǎn | forever |
| 班 | bān | team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 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) |
| 最后 | zuì hòu | final; last; ultimate |
| 离开 | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 小 | xiǎo | young |
| 就 | jiù | as soon as; immediately after |
| 喜欢 | xǐ huan | to like; to be fond of |
| 用 | yòng | to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using |
| 铅笔 | qiān bǐ | (lead) pencil |
| 画画 | huà huà | to draw; to paint |
| 参加 | cān jiā | to participate / to take part / to join |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | job / work / task |
| 忙碌 | máng lù | busy; bustling |
| 生活 | shēng huó | life / livelihood |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 放 | fàng | to release / to free / to let go / to let out |
| 下 | xià | down / downwards / below |
| 笔 | bǐ | writing brush; writing implement / brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy) / (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 爱好 | ài hào | interest; hobby |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line) / continuously; always; all the way through |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 变 | biàn | to change / to become different / to transform / to vary |
| 退休 | tuì xiū | to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 那 | nà | (specifier) that; the; those / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) |
| 重新 | chóng xīn | again; once more; re- |
| 拿 | ná | to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take |
| 起 | qǐ | verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) |
| 终于 | zhōng yú | at last / in the end / finally / eventually |
| 家人 | jiā rén | family member |
| 们 | men | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 支持 | zhī chí | to be in favor of / to support / to back / to stand by |
| 之后 | zhī hòu | after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 追寻 | zhuī xún | to pursue / to track down / to search |
| 梦想 | mèng xiǎng | dream |
| 做法 | zuò fǎ | way of handling sth / method for making / work method / recipe / practice |
| 将 | jiāng | (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) |
| 部分 | bù fen | part; portion; piece |
| 作品 | zuò pǐn | work (of art) / opus |
| 留 | liú | to leave (a message etc) |
| 家乡 | jiā xiāng | hometown / native place |
| 因为 | yīn wèi | because; owing to; on account of |
| 梦 | mèng | dream |
| 开始 | kāi shǐ | to begin / to start |
| 地方 | dì fang | place; location; area; space; territory / aspect; part |