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【答案解析】As you are leaving your school, I have nothing to offer as a gift except a word of advice.
My advice is: "Never give up the pursuit of leaning. " You have perhaps finished your college courses mostly for obtaining the diploma, or in other words, out of sheer necessity. However, from now on you are free to make your own choice of studies. While you are still young, why not devote yourselves to a special field of study? Youth will soon be gone never to return. And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship in your declining years. Knowledge will do you a good turn even as a means subsistence. If you give up studies while holding a job, you will in a couple of years have had yourselves replaced by younger people. It will then be too late to remedy the situation by picking up studies again.
Some people say, "Once you have a job, you'll come up against the urgent problem of making a living. How can you manage to find time to study? Even if you want to, will it be possible with no library or laboratory available? "
Now let me tell you this. Those who refuse to study for lack of library will most probably continue to do so even though there's a library. And those who refuse to do research for lack of laboratory will most probably continue to do so even though a laboratory is available. As long as you set your mind on studies, you will naturally cut down on food and clothing to buy books or do everything possible to acquire necessary instruments.