I spent this summer vacation in quite a different way. I used to run about every day in previous summer vacations, but this summer vacation I simply could not afford to do so. I would soon be in the last year of my high-school education and would after graduation be up against the college entrance examinations. Though those examinations were still a year away, I had to start early to make myself well prepared by reviewing all those things I had learned at school and this summer vacation was the ideal time for me to do this. At first I was rather dismayed at the thought of this, but later I thought it was better this way because by working hard this summer I could count on endless happy summers to come. With this in mind I then set to work like anything and only occasionally went out for a change or did some physical. I was not at all bored by this kind of life, for I was sustained by a hope.
我是在完全不同的方式度過這個暑假。我曾經每天都跑在前面暑假，但是這個暑假我簡直不能這樣做。我將很快在我的高中教育的最後一年，畢業後的大學入學考試。雖然這些考試仍然是一年的時間，我已經開始早做準備，對所有這些事情我在學校學了，這個暑假是我理想的時間做這個。起初我很沮喪的念頭，但後來我覺得這是更好，因為這樣的努力在今年夏天我可以指望無儘快樂的夏天來。想到這我就開始拚命工作，只是偶爾出去做一些物理。我不是在所有無聊的這種生活，因為我是一個持續的希望。