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Last Saturday my father asked me to clean the small room under the stairs.上周六，爸爸让我打扫楼梯「下面」的小房间。 We found three old boxes behind a broken chair.「我们」在一把坏椅子后面找到了「三个」旧箱子。 Two of them were too heavy for one person to carry.其中「两个」箱子「太」重了，一个人搬不动。 "What is inside?" I asked him.「什么」在里面？我问他。

He opened the first box very slowly.他「非常」慢慢地打开了第一个箱子。 Inside there were letters and photos, and they were from the years when he was a young man.里面是信件和照片，「它们」来自他年轻的「时候」。 He showed me where each picture came from, a village, a school, a river.他指给我看每张照片来自「哪里」——一个村庄、一所学校、一条河。 I wanted to know which photo he liked best.我想知道他最喜欢「哪一张」照片。

He did not answer at once, and we sat down on the floor.他没有马上回答，我们坐到了地板上。 We read a few pages together in the quiet room.我们在这个安静的房间里一起读了几页。 Some of the pages were too soft to hold.有些纸页已经「太」软，拿不住了。 "What we keep," he said, "is what we are."他说：「我们留下的，就是我们自己。」

That evening I understood this simple thing.那天晚上，我明白了「这个」简单的道理。 When we keep old things, we keep the days we do not want to lose.当「我们」留下旧东西时，留下的其实是那些我们不想失去的日子。 What we save today is what our children will read tomorrow.我们今天保存下来的，就是明天孩子们会读到的东西。