The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.
It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.
She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”
More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.
Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.
Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !
温度计已经降到零下18度，但还是像往常一样睡在门廊里。到了晚上，对我来说最熟悉的景象就是天上的星星。他们虽然只是一闪一闪，但我已经习惯他们，偶然的情况下会给我带来的寂寞和无聊。
整个晚上都在下雪，看不见一颗星星。我和我的室友都裹在被子里，远远地坐在门廊的另一个角落里，面对面地聊天。
她指着远处的一个东西喊道：“看，维纳斯女神在上升！我抬头一看，除了一条路灯，在山路拐弯处什么也没有看见。我微笑着指着对面山上的一个微弱的灯光说：“那边是木星！“
越来越多的灯光进入我们的视线，我们不停地指指点点。松林中摇曳的飓风灯发出的灯光，照亮了一片布满星星的天空。随着天空和森林被雪花所掩盖，无数的`灯很容易被许多星星所通过。
完全沉浸在虚幻的世界里，我似乎看到所有lamplights从地面漂浮。当头顶上悬挂着虚幻的星星时，当我从梦中醒来时，我已不想在黑夜中醒来。
这样，即使在一个孤独的下雪的夜晚，我也感到安慰！
You must study to be frank with the world:frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do, on every occasion. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it, if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot. You would wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one. The man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly but firmly with all your classmates. You will find it the policy which wears best. Above all, do not appear to others what you are not.
If you have any fault to find with any one, tell him, not others, of what you complain. There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to do one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. We should say and do nothing to the injury of any one. It is not only a matter of principle, but also the path of peace and hornor.
你必须学会坦率地面对这个世界：坦率是诚实和勇敢的孩子。在任何场合都要说出你的意思。如果一个朋友请求帮助，你应该给予它，如果它是合理的；如果没有，告诉他清楚你为什么不能。你错了他和你自己用含糊的任何一种。
永远不要做错误的事来交朋友或留住朋友。要求你这样做的人是以牺牲的代价买来的。与同学们友好但坚决地对待。你会发现这是最好的政策。最重要的是，不要对别人显得你不是什么。
如果你有任何缺点，请告诉他，而不是其他人，告诉他你所抱怨的。在男人面前做一件事，而在背后做一件事，再没有比这更危险的实验了。我们应该对任何人的伤害说不做。它不仅是一个原则问题，也是和平和荣誉的道路。