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A gap year — Chinese reading, HSK 5
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高中畢業以後，大部分的同學都直接上大學，我卻決定先休息一年。親戚們知道以後都很擔心，覺得我浪費時間，會跟不上別人。
gāo zhōng bì yè yǐ hòu dà bù fèn de tóng xué dōu zhí jiē shàng dà xué wǒ què jué dìng xiān xiū xí yì nián qīn qī men zhī dào yǐ hòu dōu hěn dān xīn jué de wǒ làng fèi shí jiān huì gēn bú shàng bié rén
After high school most of my classmates went straight to university, but I decided to take a year off first. When my relatives found out they were all worried, thinking I was wasting time and would fall behind.
這一年，我先在花蓮的農場打工換宿，學會了種菜和照顧動物，後來又存錢去日本旅行了兩個月。一路上，我遇到了各式各樣的人，聽了很多不同的人生故事。
zhè yì nián wǒ xiān zài Huā lián de nóng chǎng dǎ gōng huàn sù xué huì le zhòng cài hé zhào gù dòng wù hòu lái yòu cún qián qù Rì běn lǚ xíng le liǎng gè yuè yí lù shàng wǒ yù dào le gè shì gè yàng de rén tīng le hěn duō bù tóng de rén shēng gù shì
That year I first worked on a farm in Hualien in exchange for board, learning to grow vegetables and look after animals; later I saved up and travelled in Japan for two months. Along the way I met all kinds of people and heard many different life stories.
回來以後，我才真正清楚自己想讀什麼。我覺得，人生不是賽跑，慢一點出發，不代表會比較晚到。
huí lái yǐ hòu wǒ cái zhēn zhèng qīng chǔ zì jǐ xiǎng dú shén me wǒ jué de rén shēng bú shì sài pǎo màn yì diǎn chū fā bú dài biǎo huì bǐ jiào wǎn dào
Only after coming back did I really know what I wanted to study. I think life isn't a race; setting off a little later doesn't mean you'll arrive later.
生詞
直接 zhíjiē directly
親戚 qīnqī relatives
浪費 làngfèi to waste
跟不上 gēnbúshàng to fall behind
農場 nóngchǎng farm
打工換宿 dǎgōnghuànsù work in exchange for board
各式各樣 gèshìgèyàng all kinds of
出發 chūfā to set off