一位退休白人女老師伊迪給我的伊妹兒(把它翻譯成中文)﹕

I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager) 我老青春一個。 I have everything that I wanted as a teenager,only 50 years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. 我少女時想要的東西我都有了﹐ 只不過那是50年後的事。 我不需要去上學或是去上班。 我每個月都有津貼。 我有自己的衛生墊(尿片?)。 我沒有宵禁令。 我有駕駛執照和自己的車。 The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant, they aren’t scared of anything, they have been blessed to live this long, why be scared。 和我一起吃喝玩樂的朋友都不用擔心懷孕這檔子事﹔她們什麼也不怕﹐有什麼好怕的﹐老天爺都已保祐她們活那麼久了。 And I don't have acne. Life is Good! Also, you will feel much more intelligent after reading this, if you are a Seenager. 還有我不長青春痘。 生命是美好的!假如妳是Seenager的話﹐在妳讀過這篇後﹐將會覺得自己更加聰慧。   Brains of older people are slow because they know so much. People do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe this also makes you hard of hearing as it puts pressure on your inner ear. 年紀大的人的腦子遲鈍﹐是因為她們懂得很多。人們不會因年齡而降低她們的智力﹐只是需要花更多的時間去喚起記憶。只因為在她們的腦子裡存放了太多的東西。科學家相信如在內耳放太多的壓力﹐會造成妳重聽。  Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so too, do humans take longer to access information when their brains are full. 人類的腦子裝滿了﹐其實非常像電腦的硬體容量已經滿了﹐同樣也會花較長的時間去叫出資訊來。   Researchers say this slowing down process is not the same as cognitive decline.  The human brain works slower in old age, said Dr. Michael Ramscar, but only because we have stored more information over time.  The brains of older people do not get weak.  On the contrary, they simply know more. 研究顯示﹐這種緩慢的過程是不同於認知的下降。Michael Ramscar醫生認為﹐人類在老年時腦子遲緩﹐是因為長年儲藏了太多的東西。老年人的腦子不會變弱﹐相反的﹐她們知道的更多。  Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering what they came for.  It is NOT a memory problem, it is nature's way of making older people do more exercise. 還有﹐年紀大的人經常走到其他房間想去拿東西時﹐常站在那裡想半天﹐我這是幹什麼來著?這不是記憶的問題﹐只是很自然的讓老年人多多走動。  SO THERE!! I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names.  So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my friends, too. 我還有很多朋友﹐我應該把這封信轉發給她們﹐但是現在我記不得她們的名字。所以請妳轉發這封信給妳的朋友﹔或許她們也是我的朋友。         Happy 2016 作詞：陳幸蕙    作曲：陳志遠    編曲：陳志遠 潘越雲 原唱 小溪春深處　萬千碧柳蔭　不記來時路  心托明月　誰家今夜扁舟子 長溝流月去　煙樹滿晴川　獨立人無語  驀然回首　紅塵猶有未歸人 * 春遲遲　燕子天涯　草萋萋　少年人老   水悠悠　繁華已過了　人間咫尺千山路 小溪春深處　萬千碧柳蔭　不記來時路 心托明月　誰家今夜扁舟子  行到水窮處　坐看雲起時　涼淨風恬   人間依舊　細數浮生千萬緒