译文：年轻人不要去嘲笑老人，你看花儿能红透到什么时候。赏析：每个人都会经历人生的起起落落，每个人都会衰老死去，不要因为自己一时的得势就去嘲笑别人，不能因为自己获得一时的成功就骄傲自大。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.