"Why do they need to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.

Robert quipped:" 'Cos they don't like who they are and they want to be someone else."

Sarah and I politely ignored her brother. I suddenly remembered an article on this page many years ago where the writer was expressing her concept of renewal. She used layers of paper over a wall to describe how we hide our original selves, and said that by peeling away those layers one by one, we see the underlying original beneath.

薩拉問：“蛇為什么要獲得新生？”

羅伯特詼諧地說：“因為它們不喜歡自己的樣子，想要變成另外的樣子。”

薩拉和我沒再理會她哥哥。我忽然記起許多年前報上曾有一篇文章，作者表述了她對新生的看法：她用糊在墻壁上的一層層的壁紙來形容我們是如何將真實的自我隱藏起來的，并且說一層一層地剝去那些壁紙，我們便會發現藏在下面的純真。