I hear many parents saying that their teen-age children are rebellion(反叛). I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teen–agers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out bravely on their own,most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.
They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up crowded round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon (蚕茧) ---- into a larger cocoon.
It has become harder and harder for a teen–ager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his
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