Steven: Hi, Bill. Are you going to the commencement?
Bill: Yes. Do you want to go with me?
Steven: OK. (Several minutes later.) Let's go into the school auditorium.
Bill: Now, take this seat. Do you see those piles of red diplomas on the desks on the stage?
Steven: Yes. I find my heart is now rising and falling like waves, all sorts of feelings welling up in my heart.
Bill: That's true. Four years' trails and hardships, joys and sorrows of life are gushing out to my mind all together. I can hardly tell whether I am joyful or gloomy at the moment when I am about to leave the campus and to start a new stage of life.
Steven: How time flies. Look, the president of the college has come onto the stage.
Bill: He's going to make the opening speech.

史蒂文：嗨，比爾。你是去參加畢業典禮嗎？
比爾：是的。要不要跟我一起去？
史蒂文：好吧。（幾分鐘后。）我們進禮堂吧。
比爾：坐在這兒，你看到主席臺桌子上那一疊疊鮮紅的畢業證書了嗎？
史蒂文：是的。我感到自己此刻已是心潮起伏，百感交集。
比爾：一點兒沒錯。四年的風風雨雨，四年的酸甜苦辣，一齊涌上了我的心頭。在我即將離開校園開始新的人生旅程之際，我說不出自己是喜還是憂。
史蒂文：時間過得真快啊！瞧，校長上主席臺了。
比爾：他要致開幕詞。