"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.

萨拉问：“蛇为什么要获得新生？”

罗伯特诙谐地说：“因为它们不喜欢自己的样子，想要变成另外的样子。”

萨拉和我没再理会她哥哥。我忽然记起许多年前报上曾有一篇文章，作者表述了她对新生的看法：她用糊在墙壁上的一层层的壁纸来形容我们是如何将真实的自我隐藏起来的，并且说一层一层地剥去那些壁纸，我们便会发现藏在下面的纯真。